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Why the hell would you remove him from his family just because he likes eating?? that is so wrong on so many levels...
really appreciated that one thank you :P
does nothing strike you odd about an 8 year old that weighs 90 kilos?
you know, like the fact that he probably can't walk without hurting his whole bone structure?
one of the duties that are placed on parents by the society is to stop their kids from doing stupid things.
does stopping your kid from putting his fingers in a meat grinder sound like a good idea to you?
probably.
does stopping your kid obtaining a weight that leads to bone distortions, disabilities and potentially other complications sound like a good idea?
probably.
for the sake of it I looked up how much an eight year old SHOULD weigh, per average:
http://www.disabled-world.com/artman...ht-teens.shtml
around 60 pounds.
this kid weighs about three times as much as his age group does per average.
that would be the same of an 180 cm tall male weighing close to 250 kilos.
starting to see the issue?
Last edited by mmoc63f6c1cc20; 2011-11-28 at 08:21 PM.
Couldn't agree more with this, I started keeping track of my calories. And WOW its amazing how fast they can add up, also a lot of those "healthy" foods can be packed full of calories. I have since started to lose weight, I was not obese but I was overweight.
But on topic, is it really better to put more kids in foster care? Its not like we have lines of people out there wanting to take in foster kids. More then likely he will be stuck in foster care till he turns 18. Would it not be better to have a program to try and teach people how to eat right?
If the US want to control obesity, why do things like classify Pizza as a Veggie when tomatoes are fruits and give parents excuses to feed their children unhealthy food, its a bit of a contradiction
Medical problem or not, the mother isn't doing what she should have been i.e, making healthy food choices or taking him to the hospital for his potential illness.
So i say taking him away is completely justified, imo.
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Good, sounds like a horrible parents. I was poor and lived in a very poor area, and nobody was that fat, at most 1 young kid was a little chubby, but no 200lb kid. There are like 2 types of poor people in the US: poor people that are skinny, don't go to mcDs all the time (because it's actually more expensive), really struggling trying to get a better life. Then there are these people who are what I call LAZY ASSES they are fat, their kids are fat and have xboxs, they often wear the nicest shoes and spend their money on trivial expensive stuff, and then blame society, food industry, etc...for their problems. Sorry to rant, but it just pisses me off.
Jesus im 21 and i weigh 79kg, this is insane.
There is no difference between his parents doing this and the exact opposite: starving him. Both are extremely detrimental to his health and well being.
Rule of Thumb: If the healer's HPS is higher than your DPS, you're doing it wrong.
I'm 22 and weight ~85 kilograms, which is about ~190 pounds...but really? 90kg for an eight year old? That's just fucking excessive and there's some serious issue there, health related or not.
and 8 year old thats past morbidly obese? i think thats pretty shitty parenting if you dont control what your child eats. and even so, rapid weight gain should be observed by a doctor and tested for things like thyroid problems and other medical issues. a doctor may have told her something and she ignored it and that would count as child abuse, and can be reported.
so in short, yes i do think he should have been removed.
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I'm overweight now, I don't even weigh at 200 lbs, and I'm 24!
There's more to this story ; that child has a medical condition, it's pretty clear. We can't get the full story as it is with ANY custody battle, but that kid probably has a severe hormone imbalance, or some sort of thyroid problem, or something else.
Your body will not retain that much weight in a healthy 8 year old boy. There's clearly something wrong.
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Bananas are fattening as hell, and eating too many can lead to a hormone imbalance that could lead to an even more extreme condition. I'm no doctor - but this is what I was recently told by a doctor(I heavily enjoy bananas, and was eating in the area of 5-6 per day - this is actually incredibly unhealthy I found).
Healthy means different things to different people. There's very few foods that you can point at and say THIS IS BAD FOR YOU IN ALL CASES. A diet is what's healthy or unhealthy, not the particular foods. An apple a day will keep the doctor away, but a bushel might just kill ya.
A lot of fruits are bad if you eat too much, I don't eat any at all.
I have vegetables instead, they are much more healthy. I normally eat about 1/3 of a cauli, a cabbage, and have 1 carrot and a few sprouts or peas or beans or whatever is on offer vegetable wise. They are much MUCH more healthy than fruits because they don't contain as much sugar. I would say fruits are actually more of a treat, not so much as factory produced candy of course but they are certainly not as healthy as people claim - especially if you don't lead an active lifestyle.
I tend to have omlette in the morning, vegetables and roast chicken for tea.
Occasionaly as treats I will have a beef curry, or a beef or chicken or fish pasta meal type thing with sconcigli and parmesan, something to add variety but not removing the staple that provides me with all that I need without any extra.
Best thing you can do for your diet too is staying away from the media, they put a load of horse crap in there.
To me this reeks of neglect on the mother's side, perhaps even neglect she recognises but wrongly assumes she can make up for it by giving the kid candy and other treats.
I'm all for moving the kid out, but not permanently. Get the kid away, teach him how to be healthy and help him lose weight, teach his mom how to be a decent mother and treat her issues, as she probably has several of them as well, and then get them back together.