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I never heard of Class III obesity until I read this article, ‘American Idol’ singer Mandisa died of class III obesity, autopsy reveals (nbcnews.com). The comments about her weight on Facebook were not kind. There is more of a ‘you could have prevented this’ with the death of an obese person. The media writes of her deep depression, emotional eating, and almost ending her life. Depression gets sympathy but not obesity. I wish they had said she died from depression.
I had never heard of dying from obesity but from the metabolic issues brought on by obesity, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, heart failure, sleep apnea, and others. My favorite online doctor and the narrator of the YouTube video viewed over 24 million times, Sugar: The Bitter Truth, says it better than I do:
You don’t die of obesity; you die of the diseases that “travel” with it. It’s these metabolic decompensations that make obesity the scourge that it is. Diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, cancer, and dementia–the things that kill you under the concept of “metabolic syndrome.