Should obesity be considered as a disease?
If society identifies cancer as a disease that has certain causes that leads individual’s to a pathway of mortality, then the health risks that obesity contains to individuals who experience obesity presents equally the same outcome alike cancer that leads to life threatening consequences (Frellick,2013).
The American medical associations have recently opened a newly debate based obesity whether it should be considered as a disease or not. Obesity is a concerning issue as the increase of its epidemic has led to 300,000 individuals to death each year in the U.S. (The epidemic of obesity (2009) which means not enough attention has been involved in the case. According to the 2007 Macquarie dictionary,
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stein and A. colditz 2009). The growth of obesity has reached to a limit where serious actions must be taken, since 1986 throughout to 2006 18.2% of the American population have experienced mortality due to obesity (Laidman, 2013). Although the death toll has increased, the government seems not to be paying attention to these evaluated statistics that has been occurring over the past 20 to 30 years (the epidemic of obesity, 2009). However not enough contradictions have been found towards this sub-topic as the statistics and statement is the only evidence and motivation in order for the government to take this issue with further actions.
Government involvement becomes an important fact to this situation. Now the common question that has been left rhetoric is, if obesity isn’t that much of a problem and shouldn’t be considered as a disease, then why has there been a number of death increase each year? The answer remains unknown but also logic. If the government had to claim obesity as a disease, the number of new resources would be exposed, new medications would be provided, the issue wouldn’t be so effective each year and preventative consequences can risk the lives of many individuals (Dr Adam Goldstein, Dr Karol Watson, Lee, M.