MYTH: The ADA protects people who are overweight.  FACT: Just being overweight is not enough. Modifications in policies only must be made if they are reasonable and do not fundamentally alter the nature of the program or service provided. The Department has received only a handful of complaints about obesity. Sourced from the ADA .gov site.  But there's this unsavory tidbit. "The EEOC claims that ever since President George W. Bush authorized the ADA Amendments Act in 2008, the law has a much lower threshold for what constitutes a disability.  The EEOC claims that basic obesity, without any other underlying condition, sufficiently impacts the life activities of bending, walking, digestion, cell growth, etc., to qualify as a disability or perceived disability. EEOC v. Resources for Human Development (E.D. LA.2010)." So the answer is shittily designed amendments to the ADA that broadened the definition of disability so wide that fatsos had to come under EEOC protection. Thanks Bush Junior. :/