Championing the use of people-first language in childhood overweight and obesity to address weight bias and stigma: A joint statement from the European-Childhood-Obesity-Group (ECOG), the European-Coalition-for-People-Living-with-Obesity (ECPO), the International-Paediatric-Association (IPA), Obesity-Canada, the European-Association-for-the-Study-of-Obesity Childhood-Obesity-Task-Force (EASO-COTF), Obesity Action Coalition (OAC), The Obesity Society (TOS) and the World-Obesity-Federation (WOF)

Affiliations

• ¹ European Childhood Obesity Group (ECOG), Brussels, Belgium.
• ² Department of Pediatrics, Obesity Research Unit, Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg, Austria.
• ³ Division of Human Nutrition and Health, Wageningen Universiteit, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
• ⁴ Department of Nutrition, Faculty of Public Health, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
• ⁵ Appetite & Obesity Research Group, Department of Psychology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.
• ⁶ Department Pediatrics Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes, Medical College of Rzeszow University, Rzeszów, Poland.
• ⁷ Pediatric Practice, Albi, France.
• ⁸ Department of Women's and Children's Health, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
• ⁹ Department of Endocrinology, Children's Hospital P. & A. Kyriakou, Athens, Greece.
• ¹⁰ Department of Paediatrics, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary.
• ¹¹ Clinical Researcher, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy.
• ¹² Department of Sport Science and Kinesiology, Paris Lodron-University, Salzburg, Austria.
• ¹³ Paediatrician - Nutritionist, Brindisi, Italy.
• ¹⁴ European Coalition for People Living with Obesity (ECPO), London, UK.
• ¹⁵ Obesity Canada, Ottawa, Canada.
• ¹⁶ Intnerational Pediatric Association, Marengo, Illinois, USA.
• ¹⁷ The Children's Obesity Clinic, European Centre of Obesity Management and The HOLBAEK Study, Department of Paediatrics, Holbaek University Hospital, Holbaek, Denmark.
• ¹⁸ School of Physiotherapy, Division of Population Health Sciences, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Child and Adolescent Weight Management Service, Children's Health Ireland at Temple Street, Dublin, Ireland.
• ¹⁹ Center for Clinical Research and Prevention, Copenhagen University Hospital - Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• ²⁰ Department of Medicine (Endocrinology and Metabolism) and Department of Pediatrics (Pediatric Endocrinology), Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
• ²¹ Specialty of Child and Adolescent Health, Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, World Obesity Federation, New South Wales, Australia.
• ²² Laboratory of the Metabolic Adaptations to Exercise under Physiological and Pathological Conditions, Auvergne Regional Center for Human Nutrition, International Research Chair Health in Motion, Clermont University Auvergne Foundation, Clermont Auvergne University, Clermont-Ferrand, France.
• ²³ Specialized Obesity Center Caloris, Clermont-Ferrand, France.