It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
The American Medical Association, the nation's largest physician organization, decided Tuesday to recognize obesity as a disease that requires a range of medical interventions for treatment and prevention.
According to "F as in Fat: How Obesity Threatens America's Future 2012," a study released by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in September last year, adult obesity rates in 2011 exceeded 30 per cent in 12 U.S. states. The study projected that "if rates continue to increase at the current pace, adult obesity rates could exceed 60 per cent in 13 states, and all states could have rates above 44 per cent by 2030."
"The American Medical Association's recognition that obesity is a disease carries a lot of clout," says Samuel Klein, director of the Center for Human Nutrition at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. "The most important aspect of the AMA decision is that the AMA is a respected representative of American medicine. Their opinion can influence policy makers who are in a position to do more to support interventions and research to prevent and treat obesity."
Originally posted by shaneslaughta
It is more than a mental disorder. people eat out of boredom. People eat just for the sake of it.
For the taste, texture, sight, smell......but most of them dont even care to read the ingredients.
The American Medical Association, the nation's largest physician organization, decided Tuesday to recognize obesity as a disease...
Originally posted by Hushabye
If boredom isn't a mental issue..then what is? lol
Originally posted by starviego
The medical-industrial complex wants to pathologize everything. I say someone's personal appearance or medical condition is none of my business, and no one else's either. You go, fat people!
I dont hate fat people i just know that most lie to them selves to feed their unhappiness.
Originally posted by missflowers
I hardly see how obesity is "negatively affecting society as a whole", or how it's becoming the new "normal" since defining it as a disease all but says that it's abnormal and needs to be treated.
I don't really understand how you can say we're setting a bad example for the future generation and then put the blame on kids being 'too dumb to take responsibility for themselves'. Or how you (And other people!) can imply that obesity is caused by irresponsibility, eating fast food and laziness.
It could be an eating disorder (and that means eating too much of ANYTHING, whether it's McDonald's or health food). Or a metabolism/thyroid disorder. Or genetics, to an extent. Or about a thousand other things that could cause/contribute to it. Generalizing it as people eating too much fast food and not being active enough is ridiculous and childish
Originally posted by teamcommander
Why is it that everything that tastes so good is so bad for you. I mean half-dozen eggs and half pound of bacon for breakfast is just a good way to start the day. And a half-gallon of ice cream in the cool evening air is just right.
Originally posted by teamcommander
I guess this will finally allow me to get help with my "triple cheesburger" addiction.
Well, I don't really eat a lot of triple cheeseburgers, just three cheeseburgers at a time.
Why is it that everything that tastes so good is so bad for you. I mean half-dozen eggs and half pound of bacon for breakfast is just a good way to start the day. And a half-gallon of ice cream in the cool evening air is just right.