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you just drank 800 calories. you eat breakfast, lunch, dinner. at the end of the day you re wondering why you gain weight. if we have a classification of disease as opposed to i keep thinking of obesity as an environmental justice issue. right? so when you have low wages in the country and you have high poverty and then you have people in circumstances where they have multiple jobs that make it difficult to cook nutritious foods and have farm subsidies that make available lots of highly sugary processed foods and community disinvestment that keeps you from having des ept sidewalks or safe neighborhoods to walk in, a pharma industry wait a minute. this is environmental justice issue. this isn t cancer. the disease in us. we re the bulimics on the sugar high. i just wonder on the one hand i want to address what you said, the way in which people suffer. on the other hand, i don t want us to go to an individual

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medicine. the industry is huge and a major part. your point about the movies, one of my producers went to see a movie last night and had to stage a revolution to get a child size popcorn and soda, which is the only sort of human size one. it feels like to me that environment where we both shame people can you imagine if all black people on television were headless because we didn t want to show them because it s so shameless to be black. we shame people who are fat, seem to have anger about it, then we label it as a disease. in other words, i m not sure if i want people to lose weight or i want us to get over it. if i could say something about the stigma because i m a psychiatrist by training. for many years people thought men tallilness was like a satanic possession. we re able to understand it s biological factors, it reduces the stigma. i think this approach with obesity is going to reduce the

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130623:15:00:00

closer look at the american medical association s vote this week to classify obesity as a disease. like so much of our conversation about health care policy, this one revolves around money. the ama s decision does not carry any legal weight but could encourage more health insurers to cover treatments that directly address or prevent obesity. as it is most spending on obesity, about $150 billion a year goes to treat obesity related diseases such as diabetes and heart disease. the doctors who make up the american medical association also want to be paid for discussing weight loss, nutrition and risk factors with their patients and managing obesity as a chronic condition, even when the patients don t have another illness such as diabetes. the ama also hopes classifying obesity as a disease will help direct funds to research and cures and finding prevention programs. the pharmaceutical industry could get huge profit boost as a result of this if the move leads to quicker approvals for weigh

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130623:15:05:00

it s linked to concerns about race, gender. i think without the standard definition that makes it more difficult. the second issue, we know that obesity is linked to a series of social, structural issues. obesity is linked to poverty, socioeconomic status. i think in a way this is an open call for ama not so much to take two diet pills and call me in the morning but address structural issues. the reason, right, that we re word about obesity because it s co-morbid, moves along with other things we know are diseases, diabetes, arthritis, other kinds of things. the thing that moves along with obesity is poverty. the thing co-morbid with obesity is poverty. my little question, why not label poverty as a disease. erica giving me no. then there s just drinks and water and run around. it s so frustrating, but in

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130623:15:13:45

Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130623:15:13:45
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