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Stigmatisation of fat people in the medical industry is a real and extremely dangerous phenomenon that actively harms public health. The registration of obesity as a disease WILL increase the stigma even more and put everyone in even greater risks apart from being completely useless.
For the rest, this article is very true. The proper steps and objectives indicated help with the health of every human, regardless of body size. The same proper steps help everyone be more healthy regardless if they are maintaining, losing or gaining weight.
Can't it help with getting treatment for it? At least here in the US you have to justify everything as medically necessary or your insurance won't cover it.
Anecdotally my mom is obese and was getting glp 1 for a while but she doesn't any more because the insurance said it wasn't necessary to treat her borderline diabetes and they stopped covering it.
Hearing/reading how it is in the US, it won't change much of anything. They will still decline it