it’s almost invariably lean, healthy people who advocate that we should eat effectively as we’ve been told to eat for the past fifty years—because it seems to work for them. Their logic is that surely those of us who are fat would be lean and healthy or become so if we did the same. At the very least, we wouldn’t get fatter. So if we do get fatter by eating as they advise or if we have the misfortune to stay fat, it must be because we’re not following their wise counsel, or because we just don’t care. Hence the problem is our motivation and our priorities, and we should be ashamed.
