Should a doctor tell a fat child he/she is obese or overweight?

A recent article in Medical News Today addresses a simple yet ethical question.  Should physicians tell their patients they are fat?  Has our national taxonomy become so flaccid that we are loosing the ability to clearly communicate serious information? The Center For Disease Control has dictated that physicians should never call a child Obease ... even if they are!  Doctors do not say 'you have 99.99% possibility of risk for cancer' they tell patients that they have cancer! Talking around the issue gives patients a false sense of denial. The community impact of innocuous language may sooth a patient's feelings but it certainly does nothing for alerting them to the imminent dangers resulting from their life choices.  Speaking of choices, using fuzzy language to address the nation's fastest growing health risk is a mindless political one!