Are fat people (generally) to blame for being fat?

[memphis]

Next to being a child molester, there's no greater taboo than being fat. Plus, everybody knows how bad it is for you, so I think it's clear that nobody wants to be fat. And just about everybody who loses a large amount of weight (for reasons other than terminal illness) gains it right back. And yet lots of people are staggeringly fat. Why do you guys think that is if we are in the driver's seat? I was put on a prescription a few years back that I knew tended to cause weight gain, a side effect I very much did want. And it caused my desire for foods, especially sweet and fatty foods, to increase, and I gained about 25 lbs. And fortunately, I'm no longer on that damn pill and my weight is back to where it was.  We need to face facts that we have very limited control over our appetite. You can fetishize personal responsibility all you want. It's not having a positive effect on the nation's scales.