http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1232611/Mother-boy-snatched-social-workers-refusing-doctors-advice-feed-chocolate-crisps.html
Pathetic.
In Britain, isn’t “Junk Food” redundant?
Happens every day in America.
So Junk Food is good for you now???
WAR IS PEACE!
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY!
IGNORANCE IS BLISS!
(OK, so I changed that last one a little. And finally...)
JUNK FOOD IS GOOD FOR YOU!!!
TAKE YOUR SOMA AND LET US FEED YOUR KIDS!!!
Could be child was severly underweight, malnourished, starving to death. Perhaps doctor suggested feeding junk food to get child to a decent weight.
Anywhere in America, if you starve your child, yes, it will be taken away.
Wonder why mom is so old, 48? Not saying it’s a bad thing, just unusual to have a toddler at my age. I’m a grandmother.
My son was 2 when he went through this typical period of not eating much. Dr. suggested that we give him a carnation instant breakfast drink each morning. Tastes good and had the extra calories and fat (milk) that he needed. case solved.
My son was 2 when he went through this typical period of not eating much. Dr. suggested that we give him a carnation instant breakfast drink each morning. Tastes good and had the extra calories and fat (milk) that he needed. case solved.
Well, I want to say, “ask the grandparents how to coax a child to eat.”
Why young mothers go to a Dr. and ask for help that their mom or m-i-l could help with is beyond me.
But even grandmoms probably wouldn’t mind giving him chocolate milk and cookies, or in this case scones.
I guess that’s probably why....
Sad...
Both my sons were picky eaters. In order to get them to eat, I’d serve them stuff they liked. They didn’t like fruit, doctor suggested fruit juices, milk and cheese for protein.
You have to be creative when you have picky eaters. My younger one wanted mostly pancakes, waffles, chicken nuggets and pizza. Now, he’ll eat most stuff we put in front of him, including salads.
No sense in trying to force them to eat stuff they don’t want, for the most part, the parent comes out the loser, besides, you’re making food too important an issue.
When my middle son was about 1 and a half, he went through a phase where he would only eat bologna. Thats it, bologna. Breakfast, lunch, dinner. I tried everything. I took him to the doctor, an old country type doc, he said, so feed him bologna. He will get sick of it and look for other things. Sure enough, about 2 weeks of bologna, (I offered him tons of stuff every meal, cut up on his plate so he had choices) he started eating everything else. He is now 18, and a strapping lad of 6 foot plus 220 lbs (he is a giant LOL) his arms are the size of most peoples legs! He is like a tree! Perfectly healthy. Kids are fickle, but they get over it. Unless a child is severely underweight, which would indicate serious health conditions, offer them lots of healthy choices, and let them go. Keep the candy, sugar, and refined crap out of their diets (the bologna was beef only and they only got it once in a while, we stuck more to things like cut up chicken breast and lean beef cut up, but bologna cut up is a best friend when ya have no left overs for lunch the next day LOL).
Ha ha. I know exactly where this is. I was over there a few years ago. Derbyshire is a beautiful place. I have some good friends in Chesterfield. I’ll have to ask them if they’ve heard of this story.
I told my Mom that I needed mo’junk fud years ago!!!...;0)
Social workers and the vast majority of pediatric doctors and nurses also are ignorant of the situation ~ after all, it only affects 3.4% of Finns and Americans, and barely 1.2% of other Europeans. It's probably quite a bit higher among Sa'ami (I've seen estimates that 22% of Sa'ami suffer some degree of gluten intolerance).
The object isn't to get calories and carbs into the kid ~ it's to get gluten free calories and carbs in there, and preferably a greater than "normal" amount of protein and fats.
Think "white Eskimos" when up against this one.
Has nothing to do with fructose, processed or otherwise.
Treatments appropriate to your more ordinary variety of white folk are actually quite poisonous to these people.
Reserving judgment but wanted to share this e-mail for Parentalrights.org:
“Best Interests” Means Junk Food and Child Removal
“While we understand Mr. and Mrs. Hessey’s distress, Zak’s welfare was paramount, and we believe we acted in [the child’s] best interest.” So said a spokesman for the British hospital that called in Social Services and had the two-year-old removed from his parents and four older siblings for four months.
The charge? Mom refused to follow the doctor’s advice to feed her son sugary snacks to address his failure to gain weight. “They said I should feed Zak chocolate, cakes and junk food just to get calories into him,” Mrs. Hessey told The Daily Mail. “But I objected, saying that was only a short-term answer and not a proper solution.”
The result was four months without their little boy, during which time the State-funded foster care program obviously applied the doctor’s prescription. “[N]ow it is hard to get him to eat anything else,” Hessey laments. On the doctor’s prescribed “regimen”, the boy gained about a pound. “[I]n foster care, Zak was the same with his food as he was at home. They [eventually] said we were very good parents,” Hessey adds.
The hospital’s defense quoted at the start of this article demonstrates perhaps the greatest danger of the UN’s Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC): “In all matters…the best interests of the child shall be a primary concern.” Should the U.S. ratify the CRC, this core principle will replace the current standard, “proof of harm,” with the “best interest standard” applied in this case. Since the hospital and Social Services worked to ensure what was (in their opinion) in the best interest of the child, they did nothing wrong under the CRC.
In the U.S. today, because we have not ratified the CRC, such an event would be illegal. Fit parents have the right by law to make medical decisions for their children unless and until neglect or abuse can be proven. While this event is an outrage in England as well, the bureaucrats there were simply obeying the law, the CRC.
The proposed Parental Rights Amendment to the Constitution will end the threat of the CRC ever becoming binding law in America. So spread the word to your family and friends to sign the petition for the Amendment’s passage.