Posted on 05/09/2012 8:27:21 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Doctors Urged: Don't Use The Word 'Obese'
1:22pm UK, Wednesday May 09, 2012
Thomas Moore, health and science correspondent Doctors have been told not to use the word “obese” for fear of upsetting patients.
Instead they should encourage people to aim for a "healthier weight", according to new advice from an NHS watchdog.
Health campaigners have dismissed the approach as "absurd".
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice) says in draft guidance that "obesity" can be used within the medical profession, but doctors and nurses should be cautious about using it in front of patients.
The document warns: "The term 'obesity' may be unhelpful - while some people like to 'hear it like it is', others may consider it derogatory."
It adds: "It might be better to refer to a 'healthier weight' rather than 'obesity' - and to talk more generally about health and wellbeing."
Ironically, the advice is contained in a document titled ‘Obesity: Working with Local Communities’.
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FAT is out, obese is in, obese is out I guess we are back to FAT.
Michael Moorebidly rotund?
What if doctors just told the truth, i.e. “You’re a big fat ugly hog”
When political correctness was first conceived, it was named by the non-politically-correct name of
“cultural marxism”.
I call them “fat f**ks”
Ha! I’m 6’ and 210, technically I’m mobidly obese by the doc’s BMI index....
However, I lift wieghts 6 days a week and have only 9% body fat...go figure...LOL
Been this way since my early 20s, now early 50’s
The day I can’t see definition in my abs I’ll consider myself fat...
No, it never goes back. You need to make up a new word.
Just look at the history of “black” people (in America, at least). Also, “crippled”.
This always happens. Someone comes up with some stupid new term to make people feel better, then in a few decades it’s offensive and a new term comes up again.
I prefer FAT. Say it straight out.
(Not that all fat people can really help it - there really is genetics involved - but why call it anything else?)
He was bragging about his 95 year old patient. The next month....guess what.......SHE DIED !!!!!
Let’s call it Large and In Charge!
If someone is comfortable with their fat.....MYOB.
I told my smart-ass doctor that “I’ll eat what I want, and you eat what you want”. I think he’s just afraid I’ll die and he won’t get any more money out of me.
Huh? I’m obese, is my doctor supposed to call me svelte?
Kinda like “progressive”, then “liberal”, then back to “progressive” (hey, there’s a counter example for ya!)...
it doesn’t matter what “feel good” label you put on the can, everyone eventually comes do define the wording on the label as meaning exactly what was in the can all along.
Shhhhhhh!
Don’t tell them, and maybe they won’t realize that they’re obese...
Let’s talk around other scary words - tell the newly-diagnosed cancer patient that they have, um, a “bad cold” for which they will need immediate chemotherapy.
Yeah, that’s the ticket...
Good for you. I'm 6-1, 26 and weigh 197.50. LIke you I lift hard 4 days a week and do cardio for 6. My gf is the same way-that is how we met. My gf is stronger than most men.
Big-Boned? Undertall?
“Phat” is a compliment.
Pleasing plump??
Like riding on a greyhound bus??
It’s a well known property of BMI that it does not extend to people like you - it’s written as a disclaimer everywhere BMI is described or explained. If you’re 9% body fat, then you’re good.
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