Posts Tagged ‘word choices’

Obesity: Still Phobic After All These Years?

July 29, 2025 — We have a problem with the word obesity. The we in this thought is all of us, because after decades of watching the prevalence of obesity grow, people are still phobic about obesity when it comes close to home. Research tells us that obesity is not the worst word we can use to talk about […]

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Classified as Obese, Locked into a Label

January 19, 2020 — It is a telling choice of words. More than half of black women over age 20 are categorized as obese, wrote Joseph Williams. Half of America will be considered obese within this decade, says Alyssa Bethencourt. Oliver Williams writes that 18.9 per cent of children in Year 6 are classified as overweight or obese. These […]