Obesity To Be Banned in England?

I'm for creating civility, but "obese" is the proper medical term for being fat.

Fat also means different things at different ages. Fat infants and toddlers are extremely healthy and will likely lose most of that baby fat with the first growth spurt. Chubby pre pubescents will also lose their body fat when the growth spurt associated with puberty occurs. In both cases, the extra energy stores are necessary.

Likewise, a recent study demonstrated that post menopausal women who had gained weight, even to the point of being fat, were less likely to die than women of either normal or below normal weight. That one shocked the researchers, but the extra energy stores likely help older women survive a lot of the illnesses that come with aging.

However, the diet of a child who is fat after that preschool growth spurt needs to be examined, likewise the diets of obese young adults. They're the ones who are heading for serious trouble.

However, making the correct medical term illegal is just silly. Limiting it to medical charts might make sense, along with other pejoratives. Unfortunately, you can't change human nature through legislation, especially if you don't take on the bullies.

Only food scarcity after so many years of plenty will stop the torment as the beauty standard shifts from the starveling to the Rubens woman.

Sorry if it offends people. Would they prefer 'gravitationally enhanced"?

Hey ...do these people hold stocks in BoogerKing or McFondles or Offendies?

on how overweight you are. Seems they should be wasting resources dealing with the problem, not trying to do away with the label.

Obese is the proper, correct, medical term. Since any term that you use to denote a person being overweight is going to have negative connotations, let's just stick with the proper term and stop trying to dance around the truth.

Don't work to change people's eating habits: change what fat people are CALLED. THAT will fix the problem!

Good GOD do I hate this new world where words are far, far more important than actions.

If somebody is obese, they should be called "obese." Doctors don't say that stuff to make fun of you - they do it to tell you that you have serious health problems. I agree that it's very sad we would rather worry about the word "obese" hurting somebody who is obese's feelings, rather than the medical effects of being obese.

You can't be vague and beat around the bush in the medical practice. It could lead to people getting the wrong idea, and thinking their condition is less serious than it really is.

Not FAT but FLUFFY... :silly: