The American Medical Association has voted to declare obesity a disease, making diagnosis and treatment a physician’s professional obligation.
Americans have become more active over the last decade, but obesity rates for adults fell in just nine of 3,007 US counties between 2001 and 2009.
Yet, American life expectancy rose from 75.2 years in 1990 to 78.2 years in 2010.
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