Dr. Phil is totally awesome! I love his "down home" style and his answers are often so *common sense* that you have to sometimes say to yourself "now why didn't I think of that?" He tells it like it is but is compassionate at the same time, not an easy combination to achieve.

Regarding the obesity question - I really don't have an answer. I don't know anyone who is really obese. When I see extremely overweight people in public I usually just feel pity for them because I know in a lot of cases it is metabolism, and even if it is just from being "out of control" they need my sympathy too because obviously something is going on behind the scenes to cause their excessive eating.