I think of it differently. Capitalism has altered/hijacked peoples reward centers with hyper refined foods and it's a huge struggle for a lot of people to get out of that. We had drug pushers and very little help to get out of the addiction loop.

I used to think people just needed to "eat less", CICO and etc. Just like i thought people needed to just get off drugs. I think that's wrong, now.

These days it seems more apparent that some people are just more prone to addiction. The fact that i don't struggle with drinking or drugs is not due to my own will. Neither do i struggle with food, i'm frankly indifferent to food. So just as much as i seem gifted by nature to not be addicted to these things, others are innately pulled towards addictive substances.