Overweight people on Y!A -- Are they fat because they're stupid?

I ask this question for three reasons:

(1) The vast majority of them ask "How do I loose weight?" If you've been through 3rd grade in the U.S. you have been taught the difference between LOOSE and LOSE, so if you can't even get that right you're obviously not the brightest bulb on the tree...

(2) The Internet has websites galore that deal with safe and effective weight loss methods, proper diet, and exercise. Many of these websites have information provided by doctors, exercise physiologists, nutritionists, personal trainers, professional bodybuilders, etc. There is a lot of good information out there, but these people come on Y!A to ask the question of random strangers who may or may not know what they're talking about. Makes me think they may be lazy as well as stupid -- looking for someone to "spoon-feed" them the answers to their questions...

(3) Most of the people asking the question have unrealistic goals -- like losing 10 pounds in 10 days or 25 pounds in a month. They completely ignore the FACT that they didn't put the weight on overnight so it's not going to come off overnight. What's worse, they state point-blank that they don't care about the health risks; they just want to lose the weight NOW regardless of the cost. They ask about diet pills and say "Don't tell me diet pills are dangerous." Ditto that with starvation diets: "How much weight can I loose if I starve myself for 2 weeks, and don't tell me starving myself is dangerous..."

BTW, the misspelling of "loose" above is deliberate to point out the illiteracy of the person who asked that question (yup, she used the word LOOSE instead of LOSE...)

So, to review: (1) Obviously not smarter than a 5th grader when asking how to LOOSE weight, (2) Asking people who don't know the first thing about weight loss how to drop the pounds, probably because they're too lazy to do their own research, and (3) Caring only about results and giving no consideration to the health risks -- is it just me, or does this scream "moron"?