Pre-Obese: Because Overweight People Keep Gaining Weight Forever
Apparently “overweight” is also called “pre-obese” now?
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Not anymore – I just edited the page. Bless Wikipedia!
I’d never heard of the term before, but it’s all over Google: http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q=pre%2Dobese
Woooow.
Also, that kind of reminds me of when the US government, to deal with relatively high infant mortality rates (for a developed nation), told all women to act like they were pre-pregnant and not drink/smoke/etc.
I’ve also heard of English schoolchildren at the higher end of the BMI range (not sure of the exact number, it may be a percentile) being identified, during government-ordered weighing at school, as “at risk of overweight”. I’m just not sure how that can be said based on a number alone. Looking at a person’s diet, activity, overall health, family history and so on might give an indication that they’re likely to gain weight, but that’s not what was done – the children were just weighed and labelled according to the number.
Perhaps we should call “normal the new “pre-underweight” or “pre-annorexic”. I wonder how that would go down.