Obesity is now a disease?!

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  • pastryari
    pastryari Posts: 8,646 Member
    It's not a disease, it's a choice. (barring any medical conditions that obesity would be a symptom of)


    ETA disclaimer because...well, this is MFP.
  • HerpDerp745
    HerpDerp745 Posts: 223 Member
    Whew. For a second there I thought I was responsible for my own health. It's good to know it's actually just a disease. Now our insurance premiums can pay for the obese!
  • whierd
    whierd Posts: 14,025 Member
    It is a behavioral issue, not a disease.

    Change your behavior, change your obesity. Ding ding ding!
  • 1longroad
    1longroad Posts: 642 Member
    I agree with all of your opinions, believing we choose to eat what/how we eat. In a society, where alcoholism is considered a disease, would you expect a different approach to obesity?

    It seems as if the AMA thinks we are too backward to take responsibility for our actions! Sheesh!
  • 55in13
    55in13 Posts: 1,091 Member
    It is a behavioral issue, not a disease.

    Change your behavior, change your obesity. Ding ding ding!
    I agree with all of your opinions, believing we choose to eat what/how we eat. In a society, where alcoholism is considered a disease, would you expect a different approach to obesity?

    It seems as if the AMA thinks we are too backward to take responsibility for our actions! Sheesh!
    A few years back, there was some proposal in psychiatry about classifying a disorder for not taking responsibility for obesity. I don't remember what they were trying to call it, but in the article I read they were using doctor and patient surveys to find that the doctors said that less than 5% of their obese patients had a medical condition that caused or significantly contributed to their obesity while over 40% of the patients claimed they had a diagnosed condition. So it seems that we (or at least about a third of us) are "too backward to take responsibility for our actions".
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