While we today qualify obesity as a disability, let's face it - it's a 'disability' that can be cured. They can go on a diet and work out and they'll lose weight and no longer be disabled. A blind or deaf person cannot simply 'work on it' on their own and suddenly be abled. Sure, they may be able to have surgery or use devices to assist them, but it's not something that they can do on their own.  Plus, obesity is a disability of choice - fats CHOOSE to shovel food into their mouth. A soldier going to war doesn't WANT to come home missing his legs