I read the whole thing. It is the classic blame people for their metabolic failures. You have no idea why people are fat.

There are a slew of metabolic diseases that make weight gain pretty easy, including T2D incidentally.

Medicines like SSRIs do have weight gain, even significant weight gain, as a side effect. For me, it was not sloth. I expect the judgement. It was a diabetes med no longer in the market. 50 plus pounds in three months do not come from food. This particular med was removed within a year because of the side effects, not fully reported, during clinical trials.

The other side effect was death. Major side effect that is.

The causes of obesity are complex. It is now starting to be seen as a disease. Which it is, with the fat you see in people just being the obvious manifestation. It is not just metabolic,but psychiatric. I hope things like binge eating will be seen in the same light at bulimia and anorexia, which are the other side of the coin. So is food addiction, to things high in sugars and refined carbs. This is big food, which coincidentally in some cases is big tobacco. They also blamed smokers for their addiction, until it no longer worked. Right now they are fighting that war, and like Joe Camel, we have Tony the Tiger.

You did not expect pushback because what you wrote fits the popular accepted narrative. Well it’s wrong.

So no. I did not skim through it. I just gave you facts. And right now I am giving you more of them.

Incidentally, not thanks to the judgement of others. I have managed to lose some of that weight gain. You know what that medicine did. It is called an obsogenic agent. In adult hood, not while pregnant, it led to the fast division of fat cells. That makes any set point. Look it up, much higher by default. The other two periods where the species gains weight and becomes somewhat insulin resistant are the teen years and pregnancy (why some women develop gestational diabetes, full blown)

Other things in the environment that do this are insecticides and plastics, by the by, and obesity is now a global epidemic. If I did not know better, I would say it looks like a pandemic.

Try to do some research before you go around blaming people for metabolic disease encoded in their genes on obesity. Like my father, we both got it fairly young. Also realize you and I live in a pretty toxic environment and instead of blaming people realize this is far more complex than you understand. We are just now starting to understand some of this at an environmental level.

And the best part is that about forty percent of thin people are going around the world thinking they are fine and healthy, because they are thin. But due to our new age big food and added sugars in processed foods, they have metabolic syndromes as well and do not even know it.