Doctors to obese kids: No more fuzzy terms

Physicians are encouraged to tell it like it is when dealing with child obesity:

The recommended terms cut to the chase, at least medically, but don’t mean that doctors should be insensitive or use the label in front of every patient, he said

“We need to describe this in medical terms, which is’obesity.’ When we talk to an individual family, we can be a little more cognizant of their feelings and more gentle, but that doesn’t mean we can’t discuss it,” Washington said. “The evidence is clear that we need to bring it up.”

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