It was obvious hyperbole, directed at the poster I was responding to, a fairly typical speech pattern. Did you actually get the impression I was trying to suggest that literally every thin person in the country thinks in the same way?

But you clearly missed my point. Eating is a cause and an effect. If every obese person in the country ate exactly like 'the thin people do' (by which I assume you mean the same foods and quantities) then yeah, most of them wouldn't be obese. That is exactly the kind of 'simple statement' I was talking about.

If all of the stupid people in the country learned the same things the smart people do, we'd be in much better shape educationally too.