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Is it a disease? No more than the mental "disease" that causes someone to each too much and get fat - which isn't labelled as a disease, funnily enough.
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Obesity is a Chronic Disease
The American Obesity Association (AOA) believes that obesity is a disease. We want obesity understood by the health care community and patients as a serious disease of epidemic portions.
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http://www.obesity.org/treatment/obesity.shtml
I agree btw, I don't think any form of addiction is a disease exactly. That said, forms of addiction which cause serious physiological suffering to anyone who tries to quit (heroin, crystal meth, etc) should be recognised as being in a different class to, say, shopping or sex "addictions".