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What disease is it that causes someone to routinely consume far more calories than required for their body to operate? Excess food consumption is not a disease
by babyslothzoo 8y ago
What disease is it that causes someone to routinely consume far more calories than required for their body to operate?
Excess food consumption is not a disease.
Now you can certainly argue, and quite effectively, that excess food consumption is addictive behavior, nearly identical to drug or alcohol abuse, but it's not a disease. There are conscious decisions made, and repeated. You are eating the donuts. You are drinking the vodka. You are shooting the heroin. You are smoking the cigarette. The substances might be addictive, but there is still an active and continuously ongoing decision making process going on.
- jasonlotito 8y agoObesity is defined as a disease by the AMA. You clearly didn't know this. https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/19/business/ama-recognizes-obesity-as-a-disease.html https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/19/business/ama-recognizes-o...
- jobigoud 8y agoYou are talking past each other. Consider smokers. Addiction and pulmonary cancer is a disease. Smoking cigarettes everyday for decades is not per se but it's a cause. We tend to have special moral treatment for diseases that are preventable and caused by one's own behavior.
- babyslothzoo 8y agoOh yes of course, it's a "disease" that happened to put a chocolate bar into my mouth last night. You are so confident in your knowledge on this topic that you deflect and post an irrelevant link. Brilliant dialog and engagement, what a great debate we are having here. BRB my disease is inflicting me with a carb-loaded bagel this morning. You see, it is not simply that I am overconsuming calories for whatever reason (addictive / compulsive reward seeking behavior? No certainly not), instead the simple physics of weight gain and weight loss is a disease. Damnit, I dropped my iPhone on the floor. It must be that disease of physics known as gravity!