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Except "associated with" is just another way of saying correlated, not the cause of. A lot of people would live healthier lives, both mentally and physically, if we gave up on trying to fight obesity itself and just spent all our effort getting people to exercise.

"Leading cause" means that among causes of death obesity would be the plularity, not the majority

They won't die to it because they don't have it - while the percentage of people who are obese in the US is higher than other parts of the world, it's still not a majority.

No the majority of people will die from, surprise, being old. Being obese might be correlated with dying a little less old, but the cause of death is still, fundamentally, being old.

Obesity is a body type, not a disease

No, jacobush, the majority of people in the US will not die of obesity.