Can’t call fat people ‘obese’, councils have been warned

May 9th, 2012

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

Instead, they are people who need to ‘achieve a healthier weight’

By
Sophie Borland

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18:32 EST, 8 May 2012

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UPDATED:

20:00 EST, 8 May 2012

The word ‘obese’ should not be used when encouraging the public to lose weight as it may be ‘derogatory’, councils have been told.

Instead, anyone who is dangerously overweight should merely be urged to try to ‘achieve a healthier weight’, according to guidelines drawn up by the health watchdog NICE.

The guidance tells officials to ‘ carefully consider the type of language’ they use when designing posters and leaflets.

Councils are being advised as to how best to approaching the issue of weight with larger people

Under a new Government strategy, councils – rather than NHS trusts – have been given the task of combating rising levels of obesity.

Ministers are giving town halls £ 5billion a year to tackle a range of public health issues, which also include binge-drinking, smoking and teenage pregnancies.

It is hoped this money will be spent on providing better sports facilities, more green space and on campaigns encouraging the public to be healthy.

The NICE guidance says council officials ‘should carefully consider the type of language and media to use to communicate about obesity’.

It says: ‘For example, it might be better to refer to a “healthier weight” rather than “obesity” – and to talk more generally about health and wellbeing or specific community issues.’

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It added that certain language might be seen as ‘derogatory’. Ironically, the advice is contained in a paper entitled Obesity: Working With Local Communities. Tam Fry, spokesman for the National Obesity Forum, said: ‘They should be talking to people in an adult fashion.

‘There should be no problem with using the proper terminology. If you beat around the bush then you confuse people.

‘This is extremely patronising. Obesity is a well-defined, World Health Organisation standard that everybody can understand.’

Ministers have been accused of a ‘cover-up of epic proportions’ for refusing to publish documents detailing the dangers of the Coalition’s NHS reforms.

The documents – drawn up by civil servants two years ago – outline the potential impact on patient care, staffing and cost to the NHS.

Health Secretary Andrew Lansley yesterday announced that he was refusing an order from the Information Commissioner to publish them, warning that doing so would deter civil servants from giving ‘frank’ advice in future.

Calling the move ‘a cover-up of epic proportions’, Shadow Health Secretary Andy Burnham said: ‘All the warnings from doctors, nurses and patients about the dangers of his re-organisation were true and echoed in private by civil servants but the Prime Minister chose to ignore them.’

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So call some one obese and they may get upset!
I think all people should be blatantly called obese and if only 1 person is put off their big mac and chips it’s a win win situation.

– Jusweb, Burnley England, Once Proud To Be English, 09/5/2012 08:36

I couldn’t agree more. Don’t use platitudes. Just say it how it is – they’re FAT! FAT! FAT!

– Disillusioned, Local Governmentshire, 09/5/2012 08:36

How can you miss all the lessons and education about eating healthily and making better choices unless you are in a coma…or have your head pemanently stuck in the fridge maybe? Everything in the supermarkets is labelled, there is a programme about weight loss every five minutes on the television and newagent’s shelves are bowing under the weight of health/diet magazines…and also there is a weight watchers in pretty much every community, borough, village up and down the country. People don’t need education, they already have it. Over the next year the NHS should phase out all this gastric/skin removal surgery so all fat people know it won’t be an options any more. The money saved should go into counselling them instead…nobody happy can possibly allow themselves to get to such a pitiful state.

– Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells, Kent, UK, 09/5/2012 08:34

Oh really what a load of pc nonsense. I will say whatever I wish to say.

– Pluto, Pluto Land, 09/5/2012 08:32

*facepalm*

– Andy, Glasgow, 09/5/2012 08:31

If anyone is upset about being called fat – then lose some weight!

– Keff, Up North, 09/5/2012 08:28

a healthy combination of walking the dog, smoking, and skipping breakfast throughout my schoolyears took my weight off me…

– Audiophile, bergen, norway, 09/5/2012 08:26

Fat people don’t just harm their own health and property, but everywhere they go they cause damage which the rest of us have to pay for.
We let out holiday accommodation, and over the past couple of years we have had to completely replace picnic chairs, split down the middle, lavatory seats, floor tiles, cracked in numerous pieces, and even a staircase. It has cost us a small fortune and more than outweighs the money we have taken from these people for their rental.
As it is impossible to say ‘Extremely overweight people not welcome’ in your ads, we are stuck increasingly with this problem, short of ensuring everything we buy is extra strong and costs four times as much.

– The History Man, France, 09/5/2012 08:24

Why is it even a government issue?!?! If they want to be fat, let them get on with it! This government feels the need to barge it’s way into every single area of our lives and its ridiculous. Stop offering the obese treatment on the NHS, and stop telling them to get thin, it is not the government or my tax money’s responsibility!

– Lucy, Surrey, UK, 09/5/2012 08:21

There’s nothing offensive about the word “obese”. I used to be obese and used the word to describe myself. Personally, the word “fat” is far more insensitive. “Obese” is a correct medical term.

– Karen, Stoke England, 09/5/2012 08:19

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