For a long time - people were identified as having Pickwick syndrome - sleepy and overweight - from a character in the Pickwick papers. Now we call this sleep apnea. One of the big questions about sleep apnea is how much is it due to being overweight and how much does it cause obesity. It seems to be a nasty feed-back loop.
But - we've always had fat people, and for a long time we traditionally told them to cut back on simple carbs.
We still have people who eat incredible amounts of food. Get some of these people to assume a normal diet, and ta-da!, they assume a normal appearance.
But why, across the entire world, do we now have an entire generation of obese children? We can't just assume they're all lazy gluttons. We need to find out why some people gain weight and others don't, why some people lose weight and others don't. We have a lot of fat people, but do we really know why they are fat?
A marker for an unsolved medical problem is a proliferation of quack cures. When medical science can't provide an answer, the con artists pile in. Just google "weight loss" and then try to tell me medical science knows what it's talking about in this area!
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