Obesity Officially Declared a ‘Disease’ Requiring ‘Treatment’

If you are an American, being obese doesn’t just mean you are overweight anymore.
Melissa Melton

The American Medical Association voted Tuesday that obesity is now officially a ‘disease that requires treatment’. The LA Times reported:

In the end, members of the AMA’s House of Delegates rejected cautionary advice from their own experts and extended the new status to a condition that affects more than one-third of adults and 17% of children in the United States. 

‘Recognizing obesity as a disease will help change the way the medical community tackles this complex issue that affects approximately 1 in 3 Americans,’ said Dr. Patrice Harris, an AMA board member.

You heard the good doctor — one in three Americans requires treatment! What kind of treatment? Why, pharmaceuticals of course! We certainly can’t allow 78 million U.S. adults and 12 million U.S. children to walk around with an ‘untreated’ disease, now can we?