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Obesity is a disease brought on my government agencies poisoning our bodies with fluoride and chlorine and bromide. These elements saturate the iodine sites in our cells. Our bodies are deplete of iodine - which is needed in abundance in our thyroid - oops which controls our metabolism.

Get the fluoride out of water; bromide out of bread and also lets use ozone to sanitize and kill germs in our water instead of chlorine.

Florida and chlorine also contribute to lung and throat cancers. Just keep breathing in all that vapor from your hot morning shower - and they will keep telling you if you do not smoke that you are getting these cancers from second hand smoke. Wake up.

And it does not help that we are eating hormones and antibiotics and herbicides in our food and the really healthy one Genetically Modifies Foods "Franken Food" but eat all the "***" you want and believe all the lies - because the medical profession does not have a pill for Malignant DUMP! But you can believe that any pill you are getting from them with eventually end up harming you in some other way.

Obesity, high cholesterol, and diabetes are on the rise. We are intelligent people who can make choices. Don't blame the beverage or food companies entirely. We know that soda is sugar water, so why drink it. If one is addicted, cut down the sugar by adding water to it. The problem is who has time to prepare meals from scratch.

I am not against process food, but too much of anything is not good for us. We need to find a balance. Food input should equal its output. Sit at a desk, eat small portion. Construction workers need big meals.

Choose products for its value in nutrition and not for its hype.

Really?! I think this blanket diagnosis ranks up there with the diagnosis of hyperactive children automatically having ADHD. In fact, has anyone ever considered the correlation of the meds being administered for ADHD and the obesity factor? Where's the parental responsibility in encouraging their children to eat well and exercise? Or, are their children too "off the wall" thus drugged with Ritalin or the like causing the children to be subdued, left with no desire to go out and play? Like everything else in our society, we have just given people another "out." Now, parents have an "out" of being responsible for maintaining their children's health, namely their weight. Given this "diagnosis," parents no longer need to feel guilty for having an overweight child--rather, they have a child with a disease. Interesting to see where the government takes this with regard to insurance, and disability benefits.

Lastly, I would like to interject that I am offended on behalf of those who are legitimately overweight and cannot lose weight despite their many efforts of eating well and exercising. Shame on those who want to put EVERYONE in this category! Start taking care of yourselves and your children!

There is little doubt that this nation suffers from high rates of obesity/overweight and associated health issues as a result of such. The cynic in me wants to view the AMA's declaration as economically self-serving in that their ultimate goal is to get insurance companies to pay claims under this broad diagnosis. Of course this results in higher insurance premiums for everyone. In most cases, being obese or overweight are serious health issues that our nation needs to address through valuing and rewarding a healthier lifestyle beginning with our children and adolescents.

Is obesity a disease? Maybe and perhaps there are other considerations.

Peter Attia's thoughtful TED Talk entitled: Is the obesity crisis hiding a bigger problem? might be informative for those interested in this topic.

Here's the url:

http://www.ted.com/talks/peter_attia_what_if_we_re_wrong_about_diabetes.html