Obesity: It is Not Just in the Head In the article, “Rethinking Weight,” author Amanda Spake claims obesity is not just an eating complication but a complication caused by the wrong genes and a bad mindset. Spake has compiled quotes and statistics of various doctors and geneticists that have to back her claim up. Spakes believes that just having an eating problem alone will not make you obese. Spakes shares from a geneticist that says that people are accused of becoming obese from a lack of willpower. The geneticists goes on to ask “Who would choose to be obese?” Spakes reasoning behind this idea is that researchers have demonstrated that obesity is controlled from a biological system of hormones, proteins, neurotransmitters and genes