Sentence examples for recognized obesity from inspiring English sources

The American Medical Association has officially recognized obesity as a disease, a move that could induce physicians to pay more attention to the condition and spur more insurers to pay for treatments.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has recognized obesity as a worldwide epidemic affecting more than 500 million adults and paradoxically coexisting with undernutrition in both developing and industrialized countries.

"Companies marketing the products will be able to take this to physicians and point to it and say, 'Look, the mother ship has now recognized obesity as a disease.' " Two new obesity drugs — Qsymia from Vivus, and Belviq from Arena Pharmaceuticals and Eisai — have entered the market in the last year.

Earlier this summer, the American Medical Association officially recognized obesity as a disease.

Obese males and females have higher prevalence (above 30%) in the U.S. and some Middle Eastern and Oceanian countries, medium prevalence in the rest of North America and Europe, and lower prevalence ( In 1997 the WHO formally recognized obesity as a global epidemic. As of 2008 the WHO estimates that at least 500 million adults (greater than 10%) are obese, with higher rates among women than men.

In 1997 however, the World Health Organization (WHO ) formally recognized obesity as a global epidemic (Caballero, 2007).

In 2013 the American Medical Association decided to recognize obesity as a disease.

New York's human rights laws recognize obesity as a disability and forbid most employers to discriminate against such workers, according to Mr. Corenthal.

With the Internal Revenue Service recognizing obesity as an illness and a recent surgeon general's report warning that obesity has reached epidemic levels, the stage is set to declare foods that contribute to the problem a threat, Mr. Banzhaf said.

Even though physicians since Hippocrates have known that excess body fat can cause diseases, the American Medical Association announced that it would recognize obesity itself as a disease only a few months ago.

"Given the existing limitations of B.M.I. to diagnose obesity in clinical practice, it is unclear that recognizing obesity as a disease, as opposed to a 'condition' or 'disorder,' will result in improved health outcomes," the council wrote.