"Beefcake....BEEFCAKE!!!!"
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The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice) says in draft guidance that "obesity" can be used within the medical profession, but doctors and nurses should be cautious about using it in front of patients.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’.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.sky.com ...
How about chubbeh?
‘FAT is out, obese is in, obese is out I guess we are back to FAT.’
Well stated. How is it that we are paying people to spend time thinking of these unbelievable, absurd raciocinations?
"Beefcake....BEEFCAKE!!!!"
Not fat, just Fluffy!
They can write all the articles they want, publish as many studies as they want, drone on and on about it on TV, pass as many laws as they want and it ain’t gonna change a damn thing.
Losing weight is hard work and the majority of people aren’t willing to do it. (Obviously as anyone who’s been out in public recently knows).
Swel...shorthand for “swallowd an elephant”.
Twofer...as in “treating you is treating two fer the price of one”.
Dolike...”Why can't you do like I do?”
Fat people: Having named their problem, a great service has been done them.
One then should use the following words to describe obese:
blubbery, chubby, corpulent, fleshy, gross, lardy, overweight, portly, pudgy, replete, roly-poly, rotund, round, tubby
“Hogly” is reserved for Ms. Blubbery Ass.
Fat ass comes to mind...
This PC crap is the exact reason everyone is so damn fat!...Everyone is afraid to call them FAT ASS!
6' and 210 is a BMI of 28.4 and is therefore technically "overweight" by BMI standards.
30 or above is "obese" and 35 or above is "morbidly obese."
You would need to gain 50 pounds to be "morbidly obese" by the BMI standard.
“You’re a big fat ugly hog”
Hence the word “hogly.” It covers both hog and ugly.
CURVY
Some countries are requiring graphic photos of diseases to be placed on cigarette packs.But now,we can’t use the word “obese”.OK...from now on that word is banned.In its place we’ll put graphic photos on bags of chips,etc of things that can happen when you’re not at a “healthier weight”.
How about “Lard Ass”?
How about “Lard Ass?”
Forty three years ago the DIs at Ft Knox weren't bashful about commenting on my state of physical fitness...and I wasn't even of an "unhealthy weight" when I arrived!
Well then, your bones need to go on a donut free diet too.
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