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  • Obesity now declared “disease,” but risk for chronic illnesses was no secret

    06/19/2013 1:56:59 PM PDT · by Olog-hai · 33 replies
    CBS News ^ | June 19, 2013, 12:38 PM | Ryan Jaslow
    More than 35 percent of U.S. adults and 17 percent of children and teens now have a disease, after the American Medical Association formally voted Tuesday to classify “obesity as a disease requiring a range of medical interventions.” The shift is aimed in part to get doctors to tackle obesity as if they were treating a disease instead of a lifestyle condition in need of modification. “Recognizing obesity as a disease will help change the way the medical community tackles this complex issue that affects approximately one in three Americans,” Dr. Patrice Harris of the AMA said in a statement....