Calling Obesity A Disease May Do More Harm Than Good

Tuesday, January 28, 2014 - 11:30 in Health & Medicine

There are efforts to label obesity as a mental illness and a physical addiction. While that's good for psychologists who want get eating therapy paid by insurance claims, it may undermine healthy behaviors, according to a paper in Psychological Science. read more

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