"All this does is open the door for the diet and bariatric surgery industries to make a potentially tremendous profit." "Obesity is not a disease," insisted Allen Steadham, director of the Austin, Texas-based International Size Acceptance Association. The policy change will likely prompt overweight Americans covered by Medicare to file medical claims for treatments such as stomach surger diet programs. "But the majority are probably going to develop one of these life-altering conditions."įat-acceptance groups were dismayed when federal officials announced last month that Medicare was discarding its declaration that obesity isn't a disease. "Some people can be overweight all their lives and not end up with diabetes or heart disease or hypertension," Moloo said. Jeannie Moloo, an American Dietetic Association spokeswoman who counsels overweight clients at her nutrition practice in Sacramento, Calif., empathizes with the activists' fight against bias, but says they should be wary of oversimplifying obesity-related health issues.
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