The AMA (The American Medical Association) has officially recognized obesity as a disease. It has been described as an epidemic that is gripping the US.

At the recent annual meeting the AMA found that in the past 20 years obesity rates have doubled amongst the adult population, even more, alarming is the fact that that the rate has tripled amongst children in just one generation.

Today more than one-third of Americans are officially obese.

Obesity is currently recognized as a disease by the US Food and Drug Administration.

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19/06/2013 – The American Medical Association recognizes obesity as a disease.

health organization also has recognized obesity as a disease.

Medicine now recognizes obesity as the cause of multiple diseases. Some of these include cancers, cardiovascular diseases and it is believed to be the main contributing factor to the onset of type 2 diabetes.

The rising obesity problem is expected to put even more pressure on the already high health care costs.

The AMA has recommended urging doctors, and insurance companies to “recognize obesity as a complex disorder.” They are also suggesting that efforts should be encouraged to educate the public “about the health risks of being overweight and obese”

A recommendation to create a national obesity awareness month to highlight the benefits of exercise and to warn of the dangers of being obese has also been tabled.

Interestingly a large portion of people disagree with this assessment and instead believe that obesity is a lifestyle choice and not a disease. Whatever the case there is no doubt that by returning to a whole food, as grown diet and the elimination of all processed and factory made foods reverse the condition and with this reversal many of the lifestyle diseases can be arrested or even reversed. The discontinuation of processed foods in type 2 diabetes has immediate results in sugar levels and has been shown in studies to reverse the condition. Follow this link to read the 2011 Newcastle study showing a reversal of type 2 diabetes.