NHS should use term fat instead of obese, says minister

Whatever..

GPs and other health professionals should tell people they are fat rather than obese, England's public health minister says.

Anne Milton told the BBC the term fat was more likely to motivate them into losing weight.

She said it was important people should take "personal responsibility" for their lifestyles.

But health experts said the word could stigmatise those who are overweight.

Ms Milton, who stressed she was speaking in a personal capacity, said: "If I look in the mirror and think I am obese I think I am less worried [than] if I think I am fat."

She said too many staff working in the NHS were worried about using the term, but suggested it could help encourage "personal responsibility".

"At the end of the day, you cannot do it for them. People have to have the information," she added.

But they still won't act on it.

The "information" has been out there for, like, ever.

Face it. The fat simply will not act until they have to experience the consequences of their caloric irresponsibility absent the rest of us paying for their rescue.