Posted on 07/03/2006 2:41:42 PM PDT by Graybeard58
"Should youngsters be called obese? asdfadsf asdfasdf asdfsafdg AP Photo CX302-303"
Only if they are.
Calorically challenged and "hasn't missed many meals" are useless euphemisms. When parents start using that PC crap as an excuse I start using the phrase "beached whales".
Self-esteem should never require lying.
I don't care what they call me, just hand over the chocolate and nobody gets hurt.
Only if they are really fat.
A porker is a porker is a porker...
I've always preferred the term "husky." Bigger kids are going to hear plenty of terms a whole lot worse than obese from their peers anyway.
Aw c'mon... It's nicer than "Hey bucketbutt".
hahaha...
It would be kinder to tell them that they have a disease, lardassosis!
Ladies. Stop blaming the dress! Its the fat that makes you look fat.
-Al Bundy
The doctors should never be confronting the child directly on this, or any other issue that did not begin with them. By doing so, doctors would be taking the road of the cowardly. Regardless of how tough it all is to do, it is the doctor's job to confront the parent. For it is the lazy habits of the parent that drove the child down the obesity road in the first place. Doctors get paid plenty of $$$$, so it is about time they earned their pay...
Back in the day, the other kids would make it clear by chanting:
"Fatty fatty two-by-four
Can't get through the bathroom door..."
Anyone know the rest?
It would be kinder to tell them that they have a disease, lardassosis!
Thanks. I will let my 13 year old with genetic obesity know.
Jerk!
Read this:Chewing the fat: New theories on world's obesity pandemic
Jul 01 11:33 PM US/Eastern
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Fatty hamburgers, sugar-laden sodas and a couch-potato lifestyle: these are the familiar villains in the crisis of obesity sweeping developed countries.
But what if they had been convicted without fair trial?
What if the global fat explosion had other causes?
What, for instance, if air conditioning or lack of sleep helped make you fat? Or what if obesity were caused by a microbe -- what if, bang, you caught an unlucky sneeze and this made you chub out?
These ideas challenge the mainstream view that the bulging waistlines of an advancing society can be overwhelmingly pinned to diet and lifestyle.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) last September warned that a billion people were overweight and obese, and the toll could rise to 1.5 billion by 2015, driven by low- and middle-income countries.
The WHO accepted there were "a number of factors" for this increase, but especially blamed "a global shift in diet towards increased energy, fat, salt and sugar intake, and a trend towards decreased physical activity due to the sedentary nature of modern work and transportation, and increasing urbanisation."
Some worry that this view is dangerously monolithic.
Writing on Tuesday in the International Journal of Obesity, a team of US public-health experts caution against focussing obsessively on the "Big Two" -- a slower lifestyle and modern food marketing.
"This has created a hegemony whereby the importance of the Big Two is accepted as established and other putative factors are not seriously explored," they say. "The result may be well-intentioned but ill-founded proposals for reducing obesity rates."
They contend the evidence against junk food, supersize-me portions and high-calorie corn syrup is "equivocal and largely circumstantial" and offer some intriguing ideas of their own for other drivers of the obesity tsunami.
Among them:
-- Industrial chemicals called endocrine disruptors that disturb metabolism, encouraging the formation of fat.
-- Giving up smoking: people who give up cigarettes very often gain weight.
-- Air conditioning, which establishes a comfortable temperature zone. In temperatures above this zone, people eat less. The rise in number of air-conditioned homes in the United States virtually mirrors the increase in the US obesity rate.
-- Fat people marry other fat people. These individuals may be genetically vulnerable to obesity, a trait that could handed on to their children.
Another hypothesis is that lack of sleep jolts the metabolic system into demanding doses of instant energy.
University of Chicago researcher Esra Tasali notes that waistlines in modern societies started to expand when people started to sleep less. Today, the "sleep deficit" is about two hours per night compared with 40 years ago.
In work unveiled at an obesity conference last October, Tasali recruited a group of healthy young adults and divided them into three groups. One group had eight hours' sleep; another had their sleep regime extended to 12 hours; and the third was limited to only four hours.
The sleep-deprived group swiftly developed cravings for high-calorie sweets, and their metabolisms were akin to those of diabetics.
Meanwhile, Nikhil Dhurandhar of the Pennington Biomedical Research Center at Louisiana State University believes obesity could be caused by a bug.
At least 10 different pathogens are known to cause obesity in animals, causing dramatic changes to the metabolic system so that more energy gets converted into fat.
Dhurandhar believes that something similar may happen among humans exposed to cousins of the common cold.
He tested the stored blood of 500 Americans and found that 30 percent of obese people had antibodies for Ad-36, an adenovirus which causes coughing, sneezing and cold-like symptoms. Only 11 percent of people of normal body weight had this telltale of Ad-36 infection.
Dhurandhar stresses, though, that infection is likely to be only of a bouquet of causes for obesity.
"In 10 years, people may be able to walk into a clinic and be told that their obesity is due to X cause, such as genes, the endocrine system or pathogens. That may have a more productive outcome than a blanket treatment right now, (which) is not very successful."
Neville Rigby, of the European Association for the Study of Obesity, says that such unconventional views usually get a good hearing among scientists, for no one claims to have a monopoly of wisdom when it comes to this fast-growing disease.
"It's a very complex story, it's not a single issue," said Rigby. "But the overarching question is how much we consume and how much we burn."
Or maybe the fat fairy flits around and blesses random
individuals with a few extra pounds during the night...
"Is it OK for doctors and parents to tell children and teens they're fat? ""
I don't want to shock anyone but children and teens who are fat are routinely called the cruelest names every single day in school. It is not like youngsters who are not formally informed that they are obese go around with no clue. This is the stupidest news story of the day in my opinion.
"Should youngsters be called obese?
NO, I think "Cement Boy" is quite enough.
"A fat woman sloshed into the shoe store today. Said she was retaining water. I told her not to worry the dam of cellulite should keep us all safe for the next few years!"
"A fat woman clip-clops into the shoestore today and says "I want something I can feel comfortable in." so I said "Try Wyoming!"."
Fat Lady: I want my money back. I've worn these shoes only once and they split at the sides.
Al: Let me explain. Just like an elevator, there's a 2 ton weight limit. How about I just nail the soles to the bottom of your feet to give you added traction while you're pulling the ice wagon.
Fat Lady: You'll be hearing from my attorney.
Al: Is that the law firm of Haagen & Dazs?
"A fat woman walked into the shoe store today. She was so fat, she had three smaller women orbiting around her."
"A woman comes into the shoestore today, so huge she's protected by GreenPeace. She asked for a pair of sixe 4 so I asked if she'd eat them here or take them home. Then she has the nerver to complain about my performnce!"
"A fat woman godzillas into the shoe store today, she asks for something she could wear to walk in the woods. Jokingly I suggest she wear a sign that says "Don't shoot! From the front I look human!"."
“A fat woman came into the shoe store today. Wanted a pair of shoes for a Christmas party. I told her to stand on her hands, put a star in her butt and go as the world’s largest, ugliest tree!”
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