Exactly. Drinking the diet soda keeps one from eating a sweet which one is NOT supposed to eat if one is overweight. One could be very depressed from being overweight to start with.
“One could be very depressed from being overweight to start with.”
Yes, I think there are some serious problems connecting the dots here. It is like seeing a family where they are all fat, and their reasoning is that it must be genetic. No, it could also be that parents with horrible diets/lifestyles share those horrible habits with their children, and genetics have nothing to do with it. I was in a seafood restaurant down in Maryland, and almost got sick watching this fat family (including young porkers) demolish so much food in one sitting. I’m an overweight slob, but couldn’t eat as much as these pre-teen kids were eating on my hungriest day. Nothing “glandular” about their weights; they ate more in one meal than my family was going to eat all day...
(BTW, the same issues apply to urban illiteracy - parents that can’t read aren’t reading stories to their kids at night)