“The AMA recognizes obesity as a disease.
Will this help people or
just create profit for an industry?”
~ Cynthia G. Creel
6-19-2013
The small room that held me and my extra large samples of medications to correct the chronic illness left me with a bitter taste in my mouth. There was no one giving any real answer how to become healthy again. It took me over a year to become healthy enough to drop all my medications. I was not told I had a chronic illness, I was told I had heart disease. It make me feel as if my medications would solve the problem and I would be off of them like soon. Of course my medical professional didn’t really I would change enough to get off my medications. I did change enough to no longer need any medication with my medical care professional’s help and my grand desire.
The newest disease so named has been obesity. It will be interesting in the long run if that designation will increases obesity in the Untied States or help control it. Time will tell if we are on the right track.
American Medical Association (AMA) recognize obesity as a disease:
The American Medical Association 23013 meeting (1) “RESOLVED, That our American Medical Association recognize obesity as a disease state with 24 multiple pathophysiological aspects requiring a range of interventions to advance obesity 25 treatment and prevention. (New HOD Policy)”
The AMA was not the first to recognize obesity as a disease the Biz Journals reports several other groups came before the AMA to classify obesity as a disease including the Society, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recognized obesity as a complex chronic disease in the guidelines first issued in 1998.. The Annual Medical Spending (2) in tells of the cost of obesity in 1998 with an estimated cost of $78.5 billion in the Untied States that has an estimated cost rising to $147 billion by 2008 which would mean about a $68 billion increase over a decade
Creating a focus on advanced “treatments” and maybe missing the simple ones:
The question I have is this new classification going to create a money for procedures, operations and advanced programs? Or if obesity has been recognized as a disease since 1998 and the cost has also continued to increase how is calling it a disease going to truly help? We already have may simplistic ways of dealing with weight. Are they being accessed to help solve the obesity dilemma or are the ones who are making the decision promoting procedures and drugs for large profits pushing us in the wrong direction that still won’t solve much of the obesity challenge?
Answers that most likely being over looked:
I was told after I was diagnosed with a chronic ill and almost obese that I needed to take 4 drugs, exercise and eat healthy. No real answers were given to correct what was going on or bring me back to a healthy spot that I would no longer need any drugs.
Drug companies visit doctor’s offices to show them the newest drugs to help. Who is educating our doctors about simple answers that work that create little profit? Do they really want to know. I was the patient and educated my doctor how I was taking control of my life and my lab work and body supported that I was on track.
Vitamin D in one study (4) shows a strong connection between obesity and low vitamin D levels. The authors of the study talks about the relationship between obesity and low vitamin D levels and states “It may be possible to reverse the increasing prevalence of obesity by improving vitamin D status.” Or a second study in older adults between 55 - 74 living across the United States with “activity, vitamin D and Calcium intake and decreasing obesity could be public health interventions.”
Final words:
Maybe the new classification of obesity being a disease will help, I hope it does. I believe it won’t help much and will not change much. . I hope I am wrong and it does work well. If change doesn’t happen with reversing the obesity challenge within the United States or the world the cost may become prohibitive that governments may not be able to function well. The newest idea of classifying obesity as a disease may help some, however it didn’t seem to be productive with other institutions formally making the same classification. From 1998, over the last 14 years the obesity challenge keeps creeping upward. The cost for people struggling with their weight is great costing hundreds of billions of dollars for the Untied States alone. If we take a simpler route and try solutions that give great in roads regardless of the profitability the result may surprise many.
Be more proactive we can all become just a little bit better and the more likely the negative results in life can be avoided. Stand up tall with an upright posture and be proactive.
The solution helps to keep moving the best direction is to step onto the path of True Health. Discover a new world. Help yourself, help the world, step on to the Path of True Health and vote with your dollars company you want to support to create a world you will love to live in. I do, and I like the world I am helping to create.
Together we can create a better life for all to remember over their entire lifetime Together we can protect what we have so we don’t need to live in a world that is second rate.
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Source:
(1) http://www.ama-assn.org/assets/meeting/2013a/a13-addendum-refcomm-d.pdf
(2) http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/28/5/w822.full.pdf+html
(3) http://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore/prnewswire/press_releases/Maryland/2013/06/19/DC34825
(4) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19054627
(5) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20399270
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