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Brendon and Matthew are essentially correct. The OP is more or less incoherent because it takes so much of the (false) conventional wisdom for granted. First, there is a huge correlation between obesity and wealth (poor=fat), mostly because carbs are cheaper food. People see this and naturally associate fat with low status. No conspiracies necessary.

There IS a hellish self-sustaining memeplex dynamic where rich hi-status folks get to look down on the poor for poor self-control when their problem is the deadly diet advice that has become standard over the past few decades. It's always easier to blame the victim. Doctors and bureaucrats have a very natural reluctance to entertain the hypothesis that they've been killing people in the millions since the 60's.

The canonical reference here is Gary Taubes' Good Calories, Bad Calories.

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Brendon is absolutely correct.

If you want to lose weight like mad, cut your carb intake to the bone and eat all the protein / fat you want (you won't feel like eating much and you won't be hungry and irritable either without all those insulin doses shooting into your bloodstream).

Eating carbs releases insulin (which make your cells suck up fat and makes you more hungry). For susceptible people over time this leads to varying degrees of overweight and obesity (as well as causing heart disease, dental caries and many other conditions).

That this well known fact was "lost" some time after the 1960s and replaced with the idiotic, obesity-creating carbo-laden "food pyramid" and the diabetes-inducing low fat (= high carb) diet craze tells you all you need to know about the quality of scientific consensuses in many areas.

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