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Obesity 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

• jobigoud 8y ago
  You 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 ago
  Oh 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!