is obesity a disease

Is obesity a disease? Thirty five percent of people believe that obesity is a disease, but I believe that it is a life choice. The reason I believe that obesity is a life choice is because there are many ways to avoid obesity; getting plenty of exercise, eating right, and there are surgeries that can be performed to counter obesity and be healthy. Thirty eight of Americans are obese, due to that percentage, most doctors don’t consider being skinny healthy and believe that you should be close to overweight but not obese. The average weight for a teen girl that is 5, 1 is 100 pounds which is underweight to doctors they believe that the average teen girl that is 5, 1 should be 125 pounds. In 1979 the average weight for a teen girl that is 5, 1 was 109 pounds and due to the increase of obesity and weight change that now would be considered underweight and you would be considered not healthy. Many people say that obesity is caused by thyroid problems yet there are many ways to avoid this, there are foods that can’t be avoided that can stop the thyroid problem. There are medicines that will eliminate or control the problem. The thyroid causes the body to make too many proteins that the body does not need, and this can cause increased body weight and swelling. It also controls metabolism, and can cause you to lose weight too slowly or cause you to lose weight too fast. The thyroid is the number “medical cause” of weight gain but this can be completely avoided in many ways, the thyroid cannot be blamed for causing obesity. Obesity is caused by many things such as poverty and the society in which we live in. many fast food places angle advertising towards kids and show them toys and characters form their favorite shows to get them to eat there. Most parents allow them to eat there because it makes then happy and they want to give them what they want because it is very easy and very affordable. The percentage of kids that have