# Should obesity be accepted, or should it be viewed as a disease?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 5, 2012, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-obesity-be-accepted-or-should-it-be-viewed-as-a-disease/627362 "2012-07-05T23:30:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2012, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-obesity-be-accepted-or-should-it-be-viewed-as-a-disease/627362/41 "2012-07-09T21:44:43Z")

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Don’t quite understand why these are opposites. Obesity should be treated as a disease, as it is virtually impossible to cure, but everyone should be accepted, no matter what disease they have.

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**Author:** ![Tapiotar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3be4f8/32.png) [@Tapiotar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapiotar)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-obesity-be-accepted-or-should-it-be-viewed-as-a-disease/627362/42 "2012-07-10T01:35:05Z")

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> [@Nunzio\_Tavulari](#):
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> Screw 'em. They’re as big a load on the health care industry as smokers. Treat them the same way. No assistance, just refuse to sell food to anyone who’s overweight. Make them eat at home. Lock up all the high-fat foods at the grocery and make the cashier call for someone with a key.

No no no no, not the high fat foods. The high sugar/refined carb foods. A low-fat, high carb diet made me gain weight; a high fat, low carb diet made me lose and lowered blood sugar.

Problem is, we humans have vastly different body types, and what is good for one is very bad for another. We live in highly unnatural circumstances – stressful jobs that require too much sitting, for example, and people sitting at their computers or tvs or whatever instead of being actively out and about.

And, oh, yeah, of the people I know, which is not a significant sample size, true, the thin people have more doctor visits, more surgeries, make more claims on insurance than the overweight people. (Don’t know anyone in the morbidly obese category, but do know moderately obese.)

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