feminist
you would have been right 10 years ago
and there are still some physicians who would agree with you
however
in the world of medical academia and research, in the leading medical centers, that philosophy is highly questionable and as i originally said, culturally dysfunctional carbohydrate metabolism and its secondary hyperinsulinemia as a cause of Syndrome X (which i described in my original post) is generally thought to be the primary problem.
secondly obesity is thought not really to be a cause of the other components of this syndrome but to be an associated result of the primary problem.
if you are interested in learning something i would be glad to explain the current hypothesis in a nutshell for you.
ps moderate caffeine consumption, on the other hand has not been shown to have any long term deleterious effects.