Perhaps if that was the point I made I would.
I said people are fat for a multitude of different reasons, but hey let's not get a little thing like reality get in the way of a discussion.
Psychological issues can cause people to eat too often which normally will cause obesity. As I've said multiple times - eating too often is a symptom of another behaviour issue (poor self-control, abnormal hunger, sugar addiction, requirement to comfort eat etc).
Elmarko, you're again missing the point that eating too often is not what makes you fat.
Consuming too much energy and not getting rid of enough of it is what makes you fat.
I eat too often without a doubt, I also eat too much. As I've explained previously this is due to a medical condition whereby I cannot absorb the same levels of nutrients from my food as a healthy person.
As a result I exercise more. Thus my weight is healthy. I'm 6ft tall and weigh 82 Kg. I could be overweight very easily (technically from BMI I am but due to cycling a lot I have very muscular thighs and buns of steel) but by using effort I am not. My diet is certainly not the healthiest, I love crisps and cakes but like every person know that these foods are not good for me and I will be required to burn off the excess energy they provide.
You cannot tell me that the majority of those in this country that are obese, I'm not talking overweight here, don't know that eating too much of the wrong foods will make you fat and you also can't tell me that they don't know getting off their backsides and exercising will help them lose weight.
A prime example of the levels of laziness I was referring to yesterday is available in the area where I live.
I live in a fairly small town in Northumberland. We have 4 middle schools in this town, we're quite well provided for in that respect. Obviously these schools have a catchment area. My partner is a teacher and thus I happen to know what the catchment area is. I know that the school I live less than a minutes walk from has a catchment radius of 100m to the East where it stops because of the sea. It extends 100m to the South because well...there are only fields that way for miles. It extends 1km to the North where it meets the catchment area of another school and 1km to the West where again there are nothing but fields.
Thus I believe we can all agree that there are very few students who will travel more than a km to have to get to school.
On a morning the local roads are gridlocked. We have to have traffic wardens patrolling and directing the traffic. People will not even walk less than a km to drop their children off at school. You could argue it's because they don't feel safe, not the case as there are wide pedestrian paths from all housing developments nearby to this school so they do not run alongside roads. We get less rainfall than the UK average here so weather is typically not an issue either.
What is very evident is those driving the cars are much fatter than the parents who walk their kids to school. The fact is that people, in general, are lazy.
There will be some unfortunate people who do have mental issues which make them eat more (comfort, self hatred etc), or medical issues like Castiel had where he was putting weight on even on a very restricted diet but as mentioned this does not support the increasing levels of obesity prevalent the world over. These issues have always existed and always will exist in about the same levels of a population in terms of %age.
People can make the effort to lose the weight that more sedentiary lifestyles and more easily available foods provide but well...they don't because it takes time and effort. It's not because they were touched by their uncle or the kids made fun of their glasses, it's because they just don't want to get off the couch and move away from the TV. It's because they want to park right outside their front door and not 50m up the road. It's because a pizza can be pulled out of the box, bunged in the over and be ready in 15 mins whereas a good stew takes 30 mins of prep and hours to cook.
It is human nature to want to receive something with the minimum amount of effort required. Infact that is true of all life. Living organisms generally do not expend energy when they do not need to.
