AMA recognizes obesity as a disease

The American Medical Association voted at its annual meeting to adopt policy that recognizes obesity as a disease requiring medical intervention to treat and prevent. The policy is in contrast to advice from an AMA committee that recommended against considering obesity a disease because the method of diagnosing obesity -- body mass index (BMI) -- has "existing limitations," and because it is "unclear" that recognizing obesity as a disease instead of a condition or disorder will improve health outcomes. ...