Should we stop calling people ‘overweight’?

MPs think the terms have a negative impact on body image and self-esteem, and want doctors to promote broader health and lifestyle messages instead.

Sure, because we must be more concerned with self-esteem than health or having a foot rot off due to obesity-related diabetes at age 45. Makes total sense. If people cared more about improving their lives and their societies instead of getting their precious feelings hurt, the world would be a lot better off, and not just in this arena.

There is a difference between respect, discrimination, and treating people like fragile children. We should not do the latter.