Can anyone think of a better word than OBESITY????

Can anyone think of a better word than OBESITY????

It sounds so horrible and has awful connotations - anyone with any more
positive word for the condition where "fathappens"???? Please post it
here or at www.fathappens.com

"TonyF" wrote in news:1152098303.961594.310020@
75g2000cwc.googlegroups.com:

Can anyone think of a better word than OBESITY????

It sounds so horrible and has awful connotations - anyone with any more
positive word for the condition where "fathappens"???? Please post it
here or at www.fathappens.com


Repeat... Oh Wah Tah Nah Si Ahm

On the other hand, hiding it in a euphemism might cause people to try to
ignore the problem.

doug



On 7/5/06 8:18 PM, in article
, "TonyF"
wrote:

Can anyone think of a better word than OBESITY????

It sounds so horrible and has awful connotations - anyone with any more
positive word for the condition where "fathappens"???? Please post it
here or at www.fathappens.com

TonyF wrote:

Can anyone think of a better word than OBESITY????

I tend to refer to it as lard or blubber, and prefer to say someone is a
lard-ass or a Fat **** rather than obese. I agree, obese is too
clinical a term. It doesn't NEARLY get to how horrible it is.

Dally
244/166/155

One of my good friends is blind and in a wheelchair...

I haven't seen him in years, but he used to say "I'm not a "non-seeing with
reduced mobility" I don't see a damn thing and it's a pain to get anywhere..
" I agree with him, changing the words doesn't change the conditions...
political correctness has gone so far overboard that you don't even know
what you're talking about anymore..
Will~

"TonyF" wrote in message
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Can anyone think of a better word than OBESITY????

It sounds so horrible and has awful connotations - anyone with any more
positive word for the condition where "fathappens"???? Please post it
here or at www.fathappens.com

On 5 Jul 2006 04:18:24 -0700, "TonyF" wrote:

Can anyone think of a better word than OBESITY????


I think obesity is a good shaming word. An eye-opener.

On 5 Jul 2006 04:18:24 -0700, TonyF wrote:
Can anyone think of a better word than OBESITY????

It sounds so horrible and has awful connotations - anyone with any more
positive word for the condition where "fathappens"???? Please post it
here or at www.fathappens.com


I think that there is hardly a better word for describing obesity than
obesity. The connotations are there because obesity has bad
consequences. The word itself describes condition and does not pass
moral judgment.

i

Ignoramus1869 wrote:
On 5 Jul 2006 04:18:24 -0700, TonyF wrote:
Can anyone think of a better word than OBESITY????

It sounds so horrible and has awful connotations - anyone with any more
positive word for the condition where "fathappens"???? Please post it
here or at www.fathappens.com

I think that there is hardly a better word for describing obesity than
obesity. The connotations are there because obesity has bad
consequences. The word itself describes condition and does not pass
moral judgment.

It's interesting to note that there seems to be a mismatch between
"clinical obesity" and the vernacular use of the term. I think what a dr's
chart will call "obese" (based largely on health risk percentiles) a guy
on the street would just call "sort of fat". (At least that's how I
explained it to myself aterthat one Dr's visit...) I suspect what the Dr.
calls "morbidly obese" (BMI 40) might be what people think of as "obese"
but I'm not certain if those cutoff points match or not.

But the cross-definition might not be such a bad thing... clinical
obesityh is a health risk after all, and I think crossing the borderline
into "obesity" was a significant psychological factor in my latest WOL/WOE
revamp, partially because of the negative connotations of the term.

Kirk, realizing that calorie counting might have to be a permanent part of
his WOL/WOE, not just the daily weigh-ins.
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Can anyone think of a better word than OBESITY????

It sounds so horrible and has awful connotations - anyone with any more
positive word for the condition where "fathappens"???? Please post it
here or at www.fathappens.com


It's better than 'morbid obesity'. It's the morbid part that gets to me.

Jan

Learn something new every day
As long as you are learning, you are living
When you stop learning, you start dying

JonquilJan wrote:
Can anyone think of a better word than OBESITY????

It's better than 'morbid obesity'. It's the morbid part that gets to me.

Perhaps you could just describe it as "fat and jolly".

Seriously, these are clinical terms to describe a status. It's not
perjorative in and of itself. Perhaps you're someone who CHOOSES to be
obese.

I was discussing this with someone whose largely responsible for
combatting obesity in children in an entire state. She talked about how
difficult it was to get parents to realize their children were obese. I
suggested that they stop using BMI charts and start using profiles. A
healthy six year old should look like THIS (show silhouette) and a
healthy twelve year old should look like THIS (show silhouette.)
Bulbous bellies and flapping thighs are NOT characteristics of healthy
children. But so many are obese that merely overweight children think
they are normal.

I really wish more doctors would do this. Not deride people for being
fat, but just model what normal is supposed to be. Because we've lost it.

Dally