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Old 06-19-2013, 10:20 PM   #27
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Originally Posted by puckluck2 View Post
And it had to go to vote with a bunch of doctors disagreeing with calling it a disease so it's not as clear cut as you're making it out to be.


"The Canadian Medical Association said Wednesday that while it doesn't officially label obesity a disease, it is recognized in the medical community as such."
Whether the AMA recognizes it as a disease or not is completely superfluous to whether or not it is in fact a disease. It is a function of categorization for policy making, nothing more.

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http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013...sity-a-disease
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