Agree in general, of course! But I dunno about this part  All that stands in the way of long term happiness and health for most of these people is switching to diet soda, skipping the dressing, only having dessert once or twice a week, and/or quitting the in between meal snacks  I think you're underestimating how much the majority of these people fucking gorge themselves. Most of these fats didn't get to their sheer size by having a couple too many desserts a week or salad dressing. Many of them must be knocking back thousands upon thousands of calories a day. It's disgusting. Someone who has some extra salad dressing and one too many desserts would probably still be human shaped and in a healthy weight range, just not very thin and sexy (and could/should change that of course, since its not hard as you say). These hams are SHOVELLING it in. Their extra desserts are actually whole fucking cakes every night. With mayo. Then they dessert after their dessert. If the extent of our fat problem were people who were still human shaped, but just a little bit extra body fat, I'd be so much less disgusted with our society.