You are very right about fat people and artificial sweeteners. I don't think they do a damn thing to loose weight, I do believe that if you eat properly you don't need anything else.

The obesity problem in this country tells you that diet foods do absolutely nothing. We feed ourselve when we feel hungry, the Japanese women consistently eat until they are 70% full and they are not fat. The reason we don't is because we have fooled ourselves into thinking we are not full until our stomach says so, the brain gets the message some time later and by then the damage is done. This is how we were raised (brainwashed by TV & Advertising) and it is wrong.

Someone approached me outside McDonalds and told me that we wouldn't benefit from Obama's Health Care because we are not obese. :-) I'm glad he noticed but his reasoning isn't very sound.