Just regarding the post below, obesity IS classified as a disease, also as “a medical condition” which “increases your likelihood of contracting other diseases”. It’s now official:

http://www.heraldonline.com/2013/06/18/4957248/obesity-is-a-disease-the-american.html

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Mod response: I strongly oppose this classification. Being alive increases your likelihood of contracting other diseases. Being born with light skin increases my likelihood of contracting melanoma. Does that mean “light skin” is now a disease?

Trigger warning on the article, which contains the same old scare numbers anti-obesity warriors have been throwing around for years, including the erroneous ‘obesity deaths’ numbers (400,000) which the CDC put out and was found to be highly inflated and closer to 25,000 excess deaths.

It’s obvious this classification isn’t based on science, but on a desire to perpetuate the money going to drugmakers and surgeons and dieticians as the so-called obesity epidemic is in its 12th year of no significant rate increase in the US.

Fuck the AMA. Remember, people, you don’t have to accept this shit. Studies have shown that medical professionals are significantly biased against fat people – this 'classification’ is yet another symptom of that horrific problem.

I am not a disease. I refuse to be classified as such.

-ATL