If obesity is a symptom, what is the disease?

Surely if we treat the disease, the symptom will disapear and so will obesity.

e.g anxiety -> overeating -> obesity
so if we cure whatever is causing the anxiety...everything else will disapear and likewise if we replace anxiety with depression or stress, surely if we eliminate the beginning of the chain, the rest will no longer exist.

some sort of emotional struggle is the cause...

People who are overweight do eat to much and normally do not exercise often enough. But normally the reason behind this is that they are going to food for comfort. It's a way to cope with their problems. Figure out why food is treated as their "drug of choice" and fix it and then replace bad habbits with new good ones and yea... the weight will be lost.

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greedybastarditis

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Anxiety, stress, lack of perspective, loneliness...

LOL @ greedybastarditis.

I was going to say the same thing!! haha

Dunno it could be all kinds of things such as slow metabolism, addiction, depression, genetic etc

Depression (obesity can result as reaction to antidepressants), hypothyroid problems, pituitary gland problems. Most of the time once these are fixed the fat stays. People don't gain more weight, but they don't lose it either.

Ohhh its just a cop out, people that are fat eat too much end of story!!!!!!!!!!!

Might be a genetic problem, which is hard to treat.

Some diseases are impossible to treat.

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Obesity is not a disease or a symptom of anything. It is a condition.

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