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"Its not just as simple as 'eat less, exercise more' for many people!"

A doctor has raised a question in The Irish Times about the words we use when it comes to obesity and if they can create a stigma. Helen Heneghan, Consultant Surgeon at St Vincent’s Hospital and spokesperson for The Irish Society for Clinical Nutrition...

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16.55 14 Jun 2022


"Its not just as simple as 'eat less, exercise more' for many people!"


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A doctor has raised a question in The Irish Times about the words we use when it comes to obesity and if they can create a stigma. Helen Heneghan, Consultant Surgeon at St Vincent’s Hospital and spokesperson for The Irish Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism and Tara Logan Buckley, who is a

clinical psychologist, who specialises in the area of obesity, joined Kieran to discuss if the words we use when it comes to weight can have a negative consequence.


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