I eat very healthy other than the occasional very unhealthy, ultra sweet DD coffee roll that I find that I can't resist. (exactly what the article is talking about) Because I normally eat only very healthy foods so as not to crowd my digestive system with junk that will just give me a belly ache and sit there for way too long. I'm very much aware of what eating any heavily processed junk food does. When I eat one of them, I find myself craving more of them and the cravings are relentless for a few DAYS afterwards!
Human bodies were not meant to consume those things and certainly not large volumes of them. Those whose bodies have normal absorption will store the calories and just get fatter and fatter. I just get sick, but still crave them whenever I do indulge.
People who'd never dream of saying to their face that someone they know is OBESE or criticizing them for it, but who constantly fat shame strangers, somehow seem to think that it's okay to make direct comments about others being very small and thin. Some are so rude as to suggest an emotionally based eating disorder. They typically tell me stories of people they know who've gotten help for anorexia or bulimia, which if I had would STILL be none of their business and rude to comment on since I don't or barely know them.
I used to get really uncomfortable and defensive when someone commented about my being small and hinting that I must be bulimic or anorexic, even though I'm not THAT thin to where I look starved. It's just unusual to be size 2 to 4 in a world full of much heavier people.
Having disorders that mess up my own health, I feel badly for folks who are trapped in the cycle of craving heavily processed food and who've become obese as a result. If there's a drug out there that will help them escape it then I say GO FOR IT and to hell with the naysayers who suggest you are "cheating" or "too weak" to go it alone. Hell yeah people are too weak to escape the fast/processed food trap! It's by design. Those who create and market that crap KNOW exactly what they are doing, the same as the cigarette manufacturers did when they deliberately marketed cigarettes with extras of the most addictive components.
Do people criticize others who use nicotine patches or gum to help them quit smoking as if they are lesser human beings? No. So why criticize people for using available medicine to break the obesity battle?