Twinkies the new terrorists, statistics say

According to this article, obesity is more dangerous than terrorism. But terrorism and the sexy diseases are getting all the press:

Like terrorism, some passing health threats get major government attention and media coverage, while heart and lung disease, diabetes and cancer account for 60 percent of the world's deaths, the meeting was told.

Why bother fighting terrorism (or crime or anything else) because 100% of us are eventually going to die?