> The causes of obesity were poorly understood back then, partially due to the sugar industry's lobbying. I am fat, and the sugar industry has nothing to do wi

> The causes of obesity were poorly understood back then, partially due to the sugar industry's lobbying. I am fat, and the sugar industry has nothing to do with it. I don't like sugar, or sweet food in general; I eat healthy, old-fashioned home-cooked meals prepared from zero-sugar raw ingredients - they just happen to be consistently bigger meals than a stressed out software engineer with a low physical activity level ought to be eating. So the weight increases. There is a sane medium to be found somewhere between the "fat person = greedy and evil person" trope of 20th century fiction, and today's "fat person = innocent, agency-less victim of the Big Sugar conspiracy" trope.