The newest disease may affect 35.7% of Americans, but good luck calling into work with “obesity”, which was recently classified as a disease by physicians at the American Medical Association (AMA) 2013 Annual Meeting. Although the vote passed by an overwhelming majority, physicians and health officials held an impassioned debate in the hours before the […]
Obesity Rates Soar Over Last 20 Years
A little over 20 years ago there was a national study on obesity in America that offered an insight into obesity rates on a state-by-state perspective. In the 1991 findings, a portion of states reported less than 10% obesity rates, and a large chunk of states showed obesity rates between 10%-20%. No state reported an […]