AMA declares obesity a disease

I'm not sure about this one...

 

I'll light a candle on Facebook.

 

Is there a ribbon I can wear? What color is it?

 

It's a bacon strip covered in chocolate

 

I don't know how I feel about this...

Does this mean people can get fat and go on disability?

Most internal medicine doctors are the last people I would want anyone to talk about weight loss. They're all married to BMI, so that will make 90 percent of the country "morbidly obese".

 

An incredibly vainglorious move.

I shall seek disability benefits immediately.

 

I don't know if it will give insurance companies one less way to screw people but will likely get a few people dropped, putting them on the tax payers' dime in the long run. For the rest, rates will climb. I personally would love to see health insurance rates tied directly to weight and overall health. I will be getting paid to take insurance!

Whatever comes of this you can guarantee someone somewhere will profit.

 

My mother, thanks to Medicare, gets a free gym membership at the Y, regardless of her size. Neither private insurance nor Medicaid has a similar deal. That's critical because obesity is generally linked to poverty -- not having the money or access to eat right and work out.

 

Now they're picking on fat people. Funny how you dare say anything against certain groups and you're immediately considered some sort of bigot. But, apparently, it's fine to pick on fat people and various others.

 

Isn't the better question what size it is?