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Originally Posted by Pedestrian
I do see a lot of generalizations being made by people who don't have a complete grasp of the topic, because they've never had to deal with the issue firsthand.
There is no one thing that leads to being overweight, and no one cure-all for it. People need encouragement, not blame. How it happened is irrelevant. Focus on how to help someone in the present.
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Encouraging the consumption of healthier products, advising about the dangers of obesity, etc. (and granted, this is already being done) seems like the best option. The only thing I disagree with in that statement is that "how it happened is irrelevant". I presume that what you meant was that it's preposterous to dwell on the past and to berate overweight people for what they've been doing, but it really is important to know how it happened and how it is happining, exactly because, as you yourself said: "there is no one thing that leads to being overweight". The plethora of factors that are contributing to a person being overweight needs to be analysed so that measures can be taken, it seems to me.