12 Mar 2014 --- The American Medical Association recently declared that obesity is a disease, but people can be obese without being sick or diseased, objects David L. Katz, MD, MPH, Director, Yale University Prevention Research Center in the Editorial "Are Our Children 'Diseased'?" published in Childhood Obesity, a peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers. The article is available free on the Childhood Obesity website.