bingo, i've struggled with weight my entire life and it wasn't glandular or genetic... it was me eating a ton of convenience food (aka. poison)

you don't catch type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease, or obesity like the cold or flu. 99.999999% of the people with these health issues have them due to food and lifestyle choices.

i'm not trying to come off as cold or uncaring about people with serious, life threatening illnesses. but not being honest about the causes doesn't help anyone. it is hard for many people to make good choices. many people are uneducated and our food system is designed to help people make bad choices. neighborhoods without grocery stores but tons of fast food make it very difficult for people living there to make good choices. not only that, but the standard american diet (processed and loaded with sugar) is full of addicting foods.

the truth is that eating healthy can be very difficult. pay attention to the commercials on the television sometime and see if any food items being advertised aren't heavily processed and/or full of sugar. go to a store and look at how easy it is to make bad decisions when it seems like they hide the healthy food because there is so little of it. children are bombarded by misleading food advertising from the time they start watching TV. it's no wonder why our country is so sick and spends so much on health care.