This is a pretty good point. Then again, I've never, not once in all my life, heard a sermon against homosexuality from any church I've attended (and the first one I heard supporting it was in 1996, I remember the post-church conversation pretty vividly). I think part of it is that a lot of obesity comes not from gluttony in a real sense (eating/lusting after/consuming more than you need) so much as a sedentary lifestyle. If the bulk of your day consists of throwing your fingers around a keyboard, even the generally recommended 2,000 calories a day is going to leave you gaining weight slowly but surely as the years go on. A person can eat three normal meals, say a two-egg omlet, a sandwich with a small bag of chips, and a Cesar salad and a baked potato for dinner, and end up at a caloric surplus at the end of the day. They're hardly gorging themselves, they're just loading up a body that evolved to hunt and gather with a culturally normal amount of food, and then getting fatter.

Now this doesn't really explain 300+ pound morbid obesity, but for the kind of tubby 60 year old you see in churches, that'll about do it. Worse, for a poor person, eating 5 meals of fast food a week will turn you into a blimp in no time, and that might hardly be gluttony; it might be the cheapest meal of the day for them.

I think it's something we really need to work on, but you have to admit, not doing enough exercise to burn off a very typical amount of calories is not exactly gluttony. If anything, it might be sloth, but if the fat body belonged to a coder who just founded a startup and is writing 65 hours a week, that's right out too. I dunno, it's a sticky wicket.

But most people just need to eat less and watch TV less and get out more.