“often there is more to someone being fat than just eating” (no there isn’t) “it is what is causing them to eat that needs to be sorted” (the cause is greed).
The vast majority of fat people are fat because they eat too much and exercise too little – it really is as simple as that.
Only a small minority of fat people are fat because of underlying medical issues, and, I would suggest, an even smaller amount of people because of perceived mental issues. The use of the word “often” is incorrect – seldom would have been a more appropriate adverb to use.
I’ve always been puzzled why some fat people feel they are in some way a victim, when their weight is by and large self-inflicted.
I suspect GPs don’t sugar coat the effects of smoking to the health of smokers, so I see no reason why telling a fat person they are overweight and the effect their weight has on their health can be anything but a good thing.
Nobody wants to be fat, so you never know it may spur them into taking a walk rather than taking a car, and once the weight starts to drop-off they won’t cry themselves to sleep every night.
“Believe me we ‘fatties’ can tell you everything about food – its an addiction [I don’t buy that] with drugs and booze you can go cold turkey but you can’t do that with food”.
Of course people can’t go without food….but they can go with less food, and they can exercise more.