AS I write this I am tucking into my favourite vice – giant chocolate buttons. I admit it’s a weakness and one that has got harder to manage as the sweetie companies have wised up and started selling them in bigger packs.

I know I’m not alone. You only have to look at the extensive dieting industry and accompanying diet plans, books and DVDs that flood our shelves.

Yet even with a clear realisation that none of us are perfect – or perfectly slim – I was still shocked and horrified to see the pictures of emergency services breaking down the walls of a house to rescue Georgia Davis.

The teenager, who weighs 63 stone, needed to go to hospital but was unable to move or leave the house any other way.

Having to break overweight people out of their homes is not a new concept in the US but this was Wales – a little closer to home.

I have no doubt others will also be horrified. And I expect people will be lining up to blame someone – perhaps Georgia, her family or even our lazy, grab-bag society.

It’s true we are lazier (and greedier) than we used to be. In my lifetime I can remember when people routinely walked distances for which these days they just as routinely use the car.

But we don’t all need to be broken free of our houses.

It’s also true Georgia’s family must take some of the blame for allowing bad eating habits to grow into life-threateningly unhealthy ones.

But while pictures show her mother is not exactly slim she is nowhere near the size of her daughter.

So is Georgia herself to blame?

How can she not be? If you eat too much and move too little you get fat. We all know the score.

But I cannot believe a 19-year-old wants to live this life – or more accurately non-life – confined to her bedroom.

She is now apparently suffering from a host of health problems and was told 20 stone ago that she needed to lose weight or die.

If that doesn’t motivate you to change, then I think you can safely say nothing can.

Georgia’s case illustrates that eating can be just as dangerous an addiction as a compulsion for any other substance. But, with food, there is no way to go cold turkey.

It’s pointless pointing the finger.

But answers do need to be found.