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Brief summary: This study investigated how frequently negative terminology such as fail and morbid obesity was used in scientific publications dealing with bariatric surgery in peer reviewed journals. 2.4% of the publications analyzed included the term fail and 16.8% contained the term morbid in conjunction with obesity. This study showed that negative language, blaming the patient for the lack of weight loss or weight regain, wa...

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ey0017.11-16 | Consensus Statement | ESPEYB17

11.16. Joint international consensus statement for ending stigma of obesity

F Rubino , RM Puhl , DE Cummings , RH Eckel , DH Ryan , JI Mechanick , J Nadglowski , X Ramos Salas , PR Schauer , D Twenefour , CM Apovian , LJ Aronne , RL Batterham , HR Berthoud , C Boza , L Busetto , D Dicker , M De Groot , D Eisenberg , SW Flint , TT Huang , LM Kaplan , JP Kirwan , J Korner , TK Kyle , B Laferrere , CW le Roux , L McIver , G Mingrone , P Nece , TJ Reid , AM Rogers , M Rosenbaum , RJ Seeley , AJ Torres , JB Dixon

To read the full abstract: Nat Med 2020;26(4):485497.More than 100 medical and scientific organizations supported this international consensus statement, which describes impressively how unscientific public narratives of obesity cause weight stigma and stimulates discrimination of obese people. Consequently, the statement calls for strong policies and legislation to prevent weight-bas...

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ESPE Yearbook of Paediatric Endocrinology

9.18. Say what you mean, mean what you say: The importance of language in the treatment of obesity

11.16. Joint international consensus statement for ending stigma of obesity

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