It's not black and white. It's both overeating, tendency to prefer unhealthy foods, and unhealthy processed food are just terrible for you for the reasons you've mentioned.
No one becomes obese eating natural food. But no one resorts to natural food if they use food as a coping mechanism either. Then when your body is out of whack, it is really hard to get back to a healthy metabolism, if not healthy weight. The idea that your gut flora triggers particular food cravings, for example, is still not common knowledge, so we hear dietary and nutritional nonsense spread by misinformed GPs and online articles.
No one becomes obese eating natural food. But no one resorts to natural food if they use food as a coping mechanism either. Then when your body is out of whack, it is really hard to get back to a healthy metabolism, if not healthy weight. The idea that your gut flora triggers particular food cravings, for example, is still not common knowledge, so we hear dietary and nutritional nonsense spread by misinformed GPs and online articles.