by Dr. Terry Simpson
The American Medical Association (AMA) –  has officially recognized obesity as a disease, joining the scientists of the NIH,  a move that could encourage physicians to pay more attention to the importance of addressing obesity, and spur more insurers to pay for treatments. Contrary to popular stigma obesity is not the result of eating too much or exercising too little.

Research has shown that obesity is far more complex than many people, and most physicians, understand.
Arguments Why Obesity Shouldn’t Be a Disease – and The Rebuttals 

(1) Obesity is preventable
Rebuttal: so is most heart disease, lung cancer, type 2 diabetes, trauma, food poisoning, osteoarthritis, and suicide. To state that something should not be a disease because it can be prevented is naive. First, we don’t know if it can be prevented – that is, while some would love to say all people have to do is eat less, the reality is we don’t know. Ever meet someone who eats junk food and never gains a pound – and yet you watch your overweight friend struggle with diet after diet?
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