We know that some version of a LC diet will be satisfying and help just about everyone lose weight.

I realize that it's difficult to get off the carbs - that's addictive stuff!

But it doesn't help one bit that The Powers That Be keep telling us we neeeeeeeeeeeeeeed carbs, fats are EVIL, stay away from them and eat your carbs!

Look - here's a great dinner! It's only 350 calories, has 7 whole grams of protein (from plants), only one gram of that evil FAT (but not to worry, it's unsaturated so you can have a whole gram of it) and 78 g of carbs, that's almost 1/3 of your daily minimum quota of carbs! You can even enjoy it with another 22 g of carbs in the form of a fat-free dessert on your healthy diet!!

I mean it's no wonder people are hungry ALL the freakin' time and end up morbidly obese, when the truth is that they're only trying to do what they've been told is the healthiest way to eat, and can't figure out why they feel awful and just keep gaining weight.

And now the drug companies have figured out a way to keep them from feeling so desperately hungry while eating a "healthy" diet. This drug is so effective at stunting your appetite that you may even forget to eat.

When they take the drug (and once they're past the nausea, puking, diarrhea, etc) they suddenly realize that they simply don't care about food any more.

So the logic is that it must be THEM that's the problem, not the diet they've been told to eat. You have a chemical imbalance, here's a drug to fix that.

As Oprah said, she finally figured out that people who were naturally thin, it wasn't because they had so much willpower - they weren't even thinking about food, and that's why they didn't overeat and get fat.