A New Disease

Did you hear? Obesity is now a disease. Great news for all of us, right? Now that we got that out of the way, let's go find some other preventable, self-acquired thing, and call it a disease too.

A New Disease

Obesity and smoking

Now called a disease,

Next, I think allergies

Everything that makes us sneeze,

And why not divorce

It can really make you sick,

A thousand rads of radiation

Would get you over it quick.

When we label a disease

The scientists?, how they love it,

Discovering therapy and drugs

And new places to shove it,

Treatments and modalities

Expert opinions abound,

Pharmaceutical designers

Love the dollars, newly found.

Let's say my BMI

Is just below the border,

If I got a little fatter

There's a drug that I could order,

Because, finally I qualify

My insurance says it's so,

It's time for fourteen burgers

To McDonald's I must go

Every problem begs a solution

It's a market driving force,

If you want to win the Belmont

You must own the fastest horse,

We build an industry around it

Find supporters and their money,

Then we'll advertise Obesity

We'll get rich now, won't we honey?

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7/15/13