To be fair, there's not much logic in blaming inanimate objects or conditions out of one's control; this is the same logic religious extremists use to justify aggression against anything that has the potential to stop them from living their version of a holy life.
As such, it's highly hypocritical to adopt the same approach in life, the exception being illegal substances and weapons; even then, the latter is still getting so much pushback in countries that manufacture weapons, especially in a climate where wars are becoming unpopular.
The World we live in.
That said, and as the song goes, "Oh I get by with a little help from my friends."
As a child, had it not been for my parent's sensibilities, I would have grown obese in 1980s Sydney - Australia, so there will always be times when we, as a species, rely on others to nurture us.
From my life in both countries, Australia and America aren't that far apart in food culture, despite the former claiming to live healthier.
Japan and South East Asia are very different comparatively; living in these countries helped form the sense of too much, which I really didn't have as an Australian child where normally people stop eating when their stomach is bursting.
Nowadays, my tongue understands what too rich and too fatty are, which is an intangible experience hard to describe in words.
So while I believe the majority of the issue goes back to Self-Control, it takes other people to train us for that in the first place, young and old.
