Amen. Diet and exercise are an easily understood cause and effect informed consent Venn diagram. At this stage in the game if one embraces sloven laziness and exhibits unrepentant fat fuckery, it is by choice. And, Sweet Jesus, there are far too many exemplars of those poor life choices waddling across the land. Enough easily accessible literature and tangible examples of how to and how not to thrive exist. Weakness of mind and spirit result in weak physicality. Excuses, rationalizations, justifications do nothing to assuage the embarrassments, humiliations and lamentations suffered when one crosses the Sugar Styx Rubicon upon receiving that initial Type ll 'betes diagnosis.