Here is an article about a study that found it was diabetes and not obesity itself that increases risks of health problems like organ failure. Fat people w/o diabetes were at no increased risks. Send a copy to your doctors and those politicians who want to outlaw obesity!
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/09/060925054536.htm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/09/060925054536.htm