In Monochrome

In a vote held yesterday by the American Medical Association (AMA) at their annual conference, association delegates agreed that obesity — primarily characterized by a body mass index above 30 — ought to be treated as “a disease, requiring a range of medical interventions.” Research increasingly indicates, as the AMA noted, that obesity is a complex condition whose causative factors — like genetics or environment — are often beyond an individual’s control. Previously, the AMA and other medical organizations had all defined obesity as a “major public health problem.”

Source: http://www.theverge.com/2013/6/19/4444782/american-medical-association-obesity-a-disease

In ten years from now, these esteemed minds in medicine will meet again, maybe at a Red Robin, and reclassify obesity as an “..emotional problem, that has no bearing on health or mortality rates. Now, who ordered the Shake n Bake?”