Yes, and the problem is that our food supply is optimized to be more addictive, because it allows everyone in the supply chain to make more money. Quite literally every commercial entity is against an individual eating filling, low-calorie foods, because it means they&#x27;re spending less money on food in general. This is on top of the evolutionary forces that already make our bodies crave super-high-calorie food. It&#x27;s a lot for someone to fight.<p>Experiment: go to Wal-Mart and try to buy maple syrup (<i>actual</i> maple syrup; mostly what they call syrup at Wal-Mart is literally just water, corn syrup, and dye). Now try to buy canned pears without any added sweeteners (if you find one without sugar, it has Splenda). Now try to buy a loaf of bread without any added sugar (most loaves contain brown sugar). Almost everything in almost every conventional grocery chain in the U.S. is loaded with sugars, sweeteners, and other addictive substances. Even if you try really hard to buy healthy foods at a normal grocer, you are going to have a hard time.<p>Not everyone with a weight problem is shoving 50 Snickers down their gullet every day, and that characterization has to stop if we&#x27;re going to realistically address the issue.