>With full-scale food rationing in place, the Communist Party published official guidelines on how Romanians could eat nutritiously while reducing their calorie intake by 25%. There was a shortage of available goods for the average Romanian. By 1984, despite a high crop yield and increased food production, wide-scale food rationing was introduced. The government promoted it as "rational eating" and "a means to reduce obesity".
You can criticize communism for all kinds of things, but at the end of the day there is no better ideology out there for attaining public weight loss. They simply GET RESULTS.