Is Obesity a Disease?

By Professor Dr Pandiyan Natarajan

https://medium.com/@pandiyan1_39083/is-obesity-a-disease-6ccccca1cc9b

“When physiology collides with modernity, the body bears the consequences.”

Obesity is absent in wild animal populations and uncommon in traditional societies untouched by modern food systems. This is not coincidence. It is a signal. Medicine has a long history of medicalizing what it does not fully understand — masturbation was once classified as a disease, described with clinical solemnity, and treated with surgical earnestness. We should look at the AMA’s 2013 classification of obesity with the same sober self-reflection —  ...