yet you people are happy to post creep shots of people at the gym and even need to post pictures of yourselves to get verified.

I'm not an FPH subscriber (actually I'm a little overweight, so I suppose I'm 'disqualified' from membership), but I've looked at their subreddit a few times. I distinctly recall their having a rule against mocking fat people who are at a gym and actually exercising/trying.

That is not to say that someone didn't post something like that from time to time (there are people violating rules of various subreddits every day). But I recall a couple of discussions where FPH'ers were saying things like "Don't pick on people who are trying" etc. It falls squarely in line with the idea that FPH'ers promoted: That being fat is a choice.

Side note, because I love talking about the real source of the overweight/obese demographic shift:

Though FPH over-simplified the issue to a mere "choice", I think there is more than mere choice at play. One of the main things causing a nationwide (and now international) wave of obesity is "calorie abundance".

The U.S. fast food industry started it all by getting into a "meal upsizing" war in the 1970s-80s. Sit-down restaurants and take-home-and-heat meals followed suit in order to compete with the rapid upswing of fast food. This coincided with huge increases in sugar subsidies (all kinds, corn, cane sugar, etc), which caused sugar to be sprinkled into extremely unlikely foods, corrupting the palette of many Americans. At the same time, pre-fab food vending companies began to take over contracts to supply school lunches. Generations were being taught that "sweetened deep-fried nugget-shaped food" was the norm.

In my opinion, there is definitely still a "self-control" aspect to the phenomenon (and so I agree with FPH to an extent).

But we didn't become a nation that suddenly "lost self control" during the 1970s-80s. Nor did our entire nation's "genetics" suddenly change in a few years. These terrible events (portion increases, sugar injection, and bad meals at schools) converged at once.

You can see it clearly happen in year-over-year obesity and overweight figures. You can also see the same trend happening in other countries, but delayed by 10-15 years. That's about how long the "new normal" in American menus took to migrate into other markets overseas. Even the local companies in these foreign countries have to shift priories to "keep up": Bigger meal portions, more sugar, more frying.

So there's a new food landscape: Most food offerings used to be healthy by default, but now there is great peril on every menu and in every take-home-and-heat meal. It used to be there was very little need for "self control" because we weren't being inundated with so many bad possible choices at every turn. The problem is largely environmental in this regard. However, self-control is still a major component.