It's part of the new meme, thanks in large part to political correctness, no one is responsible any more for his or her actions.
It ain't the devil that makes them do it. It's the monopoly on healthcare by the giant pharmaceutical companies.
Here's the headline from a recent Financial Times article: "US more open to obesity drugs."
US regulators are becoming more open to drugs for tackling obesity, according to Lars Sorensen, chief executive of Novo Nordisk, as the Danish company pushes for approval of a weight-loss medicine that analysts forecast could generate $1bnin annual sales.
Type II diabetes, the kind most folks eat their way into, is a huge money maker. If you don't believe us here's more from Sorensen and his company.
Growth in obesity drugs could provide a new source of momentum for Novo Norkisk on top of its role as the world's biggest maker of insulin for diabetics.
Rising incidence of diabetes across the world has helped Novo Nordisk over-take GaxoSmithKline to become Europe's fourth-biggest drugmaker by market capitalisation after Roche, Novartis and Sandofi.
Mr Sorensen said 10 per cent of global healthcare costs were attributable to diabetes. He said the 'enormous business potential' in treating diabetes meant Novo Nordisk had no need to join the rush of mergers and acquisitions among drug makers this year.
Back in the 1990s another anti-obesity drug, called fen-phen for short after its ingredients, fenfluramine/phentermine, captured the public's attention. Though it had been around since the early 1970s, phentermine when mixed with fenfluramine sales began to take off.
Up until that time fenfluramine was not popular because it only temporarily reduced weight. Later it was discovered that this and a similar weight-loss drug has serious side effects.
If you're paying attention, there are two five-letter words here. One is drift and the other is greed. Once again what could be done naturally gets an artificial, painless solution. Natural is big pharma's biggest nightmare.
For a decent recap on the history of fen-phen and its problems, here's an interesting link.
https://www.dartmouth.edu/~chance/course/Syllabi/97Dartmouth/day-2/fen-phen-1.pdf
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