This is the first article in our blog and would like to start with something fairly controversial: a story published in the Daily Mail that the Council of Liverpool (England) was studying the possibility of simply banning the word obese children, in other words, no longer use this expression when referring to children, so that they do not feel offended.
Despite the good intention of this decision, and we will admit that it does not solve the problem: to tell or not a person is overweight does not make your situation changes, both for its weight, and for their health conditions.
The problem then, or the lack of weight control, would not be being resolved, as although the term is used so often pejorative, it reflects only one thing: that the person has a health problem and urgently needs to lose weight . The real problem still persists and without the accompaniment of a nutritionist could bring several complications, even causing the death of the individual!
Today, we can not be accused of lack of information as the main responsible for this problem. Despite this being our blog starting today, we have other blogs (not just focused on obesity, this is fact) where we've covered this issue.
However, between talking and acting is a "gulf of differences," a very great distance and that most people can not implement alone. Maybe that's why some prefer to discuss whether or not we should call a child obese, instead of looking for ways to solve the real problem: the obseidade child.
And for you, dear reader, what is your opinion about banning the word obese children?
