{"id":23565,"date":"2020-08-01T18:28:57","date_gmt":"2020-08-01T18:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=23565"},"modified":"2020-08-01T18:28:57","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T18:28:57","slug":"dont-call-obese-people-chunky-doctors-are-urged-avoid-using-non-medical-terms-when-talking-to-overweight-patients-in-case-they-increase-stigma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2020\/08\/01\/dont-call-obese-people-chunky-doctors-are-urged-avoid-using-non-medical-terms-when-talking-to-overweight-patients-in-case-they-increase-stigma\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t call obese people chunky: Doctors are urged avoid using non-medical terms when talking to overweight patients in case they increase stigma"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-23566\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/obese-300x278.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/obese-300x278.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/obese-500x463.jpg 500w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/obese.jpg 634w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Doctors have been urged to avoid using &#8216;judgemental&#8217;, &#8216;threatening&#8217; or non-medical terms such as &#8216;chunky&#8217; when treating obese patients.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-8583045\/Doctors-urged-avoid-non-medical-terms-like-chunky-talking-obese-patients.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Doctors have been urged to avoid using &#8216;judgemental&#8217;, &#8216;threatening&#8217; or non-medical terms such as &#8216;chunky&#8217; when treating obese patients.\u00a0 Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23565","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/obese.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23567,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23565\/revisions\/23567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}