Should we rename ‘obesity’?

Researchers in University College Cork are calling for obesity to be renamed ‘Chronic Appetite Dysregulation’.European Congress on Obesity took place in Dublin this week, sparking conversations around the future of obesity.

“If you ask a random person on the street, ‘is obesity a disease?’, I'm not sure that they're going to say yes,” she explained. “It's about your ability to change your behavior at a deep kind of unconscious level in response to your environment. And I don't think we've done a good job of explaining that.”While Dr Steele is comfortable describing herself as fat, she understands other people are not and may prefer to describe themselves as obese.

“We don’t get to say what obesity means to the general public,” she said. “it already has a meaning it already means fat, or high BMI.”

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