There are several diseases that are associated with obesity. Due to the fact that there 34% of Americans are considered to be obese, this is something that we should all be aware of. If we are not suffering from obesity ourselves, we at least know someone that is. This makes us all potentially at risk in one way or another for disease. One of the diseases that is associated with obesity is diabetes. Diabetes is a disease that poses the number one cause of those that get the disease is the fact that they are overweight. Diabetes is a disease that is initiated when one does not produce a sufficient amount of the insulin hormone. This in turn, causes them to have to provide their bodies with the insulin hormone that it needs manually.