Doctors not to say "obese"
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skyboy
'obese' is a medical term
I cannot think what else they would use instead?
I know that the powers that be made a complete fool of themselves trying to apply BMI calculations to children and labelling many normal children obese.
I suppose its their paranoia from creating THAT particular scandal that is prompting this complete overreaction...
Actually if doctors called people FAT instead it might make the overeating lazy people realise that the condition is of their own making due to calories in > calories used. Instead they believe they have some medical condition or that their 'metabolism' is slow.
With obvious true medical exceptions of course for people on immunosupressing steroidal treatments.
I cannot think what else they would use instead?
I know that the powers that be made a complete fool of themselves trying to apply BMI calculations to children and labelling many normal children obese.
I suppose its their paranoia from creating THAT particular scandal that is prompting this complete overreaction...
Actually if doctors called people FAT instead it might make the overeating lazy people realise that the condition is of their own making due to calories in > calories used. Instead they believe they have some medical condition or that their 'metabolism' is slow.
With obvious true medical exceptions of course for people on immunosupressing steroidal treatments.
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In addition some, luminary is recommending that the term 'overweight' is no longer used. Barely credible, but have a listen to this snippet from Radio 4's Woman's Hour earlier in the week (about 3min 40secs in). Gobsmackingly crass.
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trollmaster2000
'In calorific surplus'
When I was a child in the 70's there were very few fat kids at school. Partly the reason may be we didn't have computer games and the like and played outside but I think a lot of it was that we could call people "fatty" and it was cruel and helped stop kids getting fat in the first place.
The issue needs to be looked at in the round . It may be the thin end of the wedge, but a fat lot of good will come of it.
My doctor has stuck with me through thick and thin, so I'm inclined to lean in favour of him although this topic is weigh out of my league.
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My doctor has stuck with me through thick and thin, so I'm inclined to lean in favour of him although this topic is weigh out of my league.
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skyboy
Doctors not to say "obese"
what a fatuous remark!
what a fatuous remark!
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joinerjohn
I wonder what this chap's doctor says to him?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...man-Paul-Mason-70-stone-cost-taxpayer-1m.html
(I bet he don't call him SLIM )
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...man-Paul-Mason-70-stone-cost-taxpayer-1m.html
(I bet he don't call him SLIM )
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trollmaster2000
If i was his doctor, I'd say "look sir, the best thing you could do is get a rope, tie one end round your neck, the other end round the back of a bus, and wait."
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joinerjohn
Don't you think a bus would have struggled to pull him though? Perhaps a Chieftain Tank would be better.
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trollmaster2000
Haha! To be fair though I wasn't thinking about pulling him along, just breaking the f"£$%^cker's neck.
Slightly off-topic, but I've looked at joinerjohn's link and it's reminded me of all the other grossly oversized bodies that I've seen on programmes like Supersize v Superskinny (I'm a secondary watcher) and I keep coming back to the same question:
These are people so obese that they can't even get off the bed without help, never mind go out to the shops, so who the ****ing hell is feeding them?
These are people so obese that they can't even get off the bed without help, never mind go out to the shops, so who the ****ing hell is feeding them?
I also have thought this! I have seen fat girls and there feeders! Usually skinny little men who dont want the birds to run off!
My thing is, hw can they afford to eat so much, it must cost a fortune!
My thing is, hw can they afford to eat so much, it must cost a fortune!
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joinerjohn
I was thinking that this morning Space cat, and thought, the easiest way to put these people on a diet is to put their food, just out of reach. With these morbidly obese people who can't even get out of bed though, the people who tend to their needs want educating. They do them no favours by keeping stuffing food down their throats..
BTW, did anyone watch the Big Body Squad ? A program about the ambulance and emergency services who have to deal with morbidly obese patients? They have specially converted ambulances/wheelchairs/trolleys etc just to get these people to hospital appointments etc. One ambulance even had, what looked like a winch off the front of a Landrover to pull the trolley up the ramp onto the ambulance.
BTW, did anyone watch the Big Body Squad ? A program about the ambulance and emergency services who have to deal with morbidly obese patients? They have specially converted ambulances/wheelchairs/trolleys etc just to get these people to hospital appointments etc. One ambulance even had, what looked like a winch off the front of a Landrover to pull the trolley up the ramp onto the ambulance.
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