(Reuters Life!) - Calling people fat rather than obese would be more likely to motivate them to lose weight, according to Britain's public health minister. Doctors and health workers are too worried about using the term "fat," Anne Milton said, but doing so could help encourage people to take personal responsibility for their lifestyles."If I look in the mirror and think I am obese I think I am less worried (than) if I think I am fat," Milton, a former nurse, told the BBC. "At the end of the day, you cannot do it for them. People have to have the information."
(Reuters Life!) - Calling people fat rather than obese would be more likely to motivate them to lose weight, according to Britain's public health minister.
Doctors and health workers are too worried about using the term "fat," Anne Milton said, but doing so could help encourage people to take personal responsibility for their lifestyles.
"If I look in the mirror and think I am obese I think I am less worried (than) if I think I am fat," Milton, a former nurse, told the BBC. "At the end of the day, you cannot do it for them. People have to have the information."
I also prefer calling the US Department of War the "Department of Defense" and surrender of national sovereignty to transnational corporate government "the Free Market". Makes it all seem so much the nicer. I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.
No, its the Department of War. Its ongoing wars that require logistical support bases in places that have not faced the remotest threat of attack for over a decade, in order to generate those juicy base support contracts. I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.
