Obesity

[flightknight]

Since obesity is recently classified as a disease., will pilots risk losing their medicals. Especially since we have a lot of overweight pilots.:}

[Dufo]

Not unless you can operate the controls.
But usually obesity leads to other risk factors which might in long term compromise your health.

[Radgirl]

No because disease is not the problem. The problem is the risk of incapacitation or failure to carry out duties properly and safely.

[gingernut]

Since obesity is recently classified as a disease., will pilots risk losing their medicals. Especially since we have a lot of overweight pilots.http://images.ibsrv.net/ibsrv/res/src:www.pprune.org/get/images/smilies/badteeth.gif

Gawd, they'll be clasifying "life" as a disease next:)

[RedhillPhil]

So if ever my M.O. diagnoses me with the disease of obesity will he prescribe a prescription which consists of a piece of paper with, "eat less" written on it.

You never saw fat people coming out of Belsen - distasteful but true.