[Retroman]

I feel sorry for obese people who comfort eat due to quite influential reasons on their lives...

Such as depression, or feeling down about family situations, the death of a loved one, bullying etc. Or sometimes those people are just extremely lonely, can't seem to make friends and literally eat themselves into an even worse social life, whilst affecting their health and appearance.

I guess we could also blame food being more readily available these days, and the introduction of junk food in the past century...as to why more people are overweight these days.

People couldn't walk around the corner and pick up crisps and chocolate, or a massive cheeseburger and chips for next to nothing, a certain amount of years ago.