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Posted on 11/28/2011 4:14:25 AM PST by EBH
Edited on 11/28/2011 6:50:22 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
CLEVELAND (AP)
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
200 lbs at 15 years old, my dispute would be that the child doesn’t need foster care, he needs hospitalization; and if there is no medical reason for his weight, then his mother needs court-ordered psychiatric analysis.
Though chronic health problems may not develop for some years, being so morbidly obese will likely cause damage that could result in acute problems, not just chronic ones, such as heart, liver and kidney damage.
There is probably a good chance that the mother suffers from the equivalent of reverse anorexia (bigorexia) by proxy. As fat as her child is, in her mind he is starving to death and look emaciated. (Bigorexia is normally associated with weight lifters who think they look too small and wish to gain too much muscle mass, but in some cases applies to just body bulk and weight, not just muscle.)
As such, there are some medicines that would effectively normalize her perspective, so she could see obesity as obesity, not as starvation.
It feels like you’ve left out several agencies and a Czar or two, but I’ll be darned if I know which ones...
Oh, the irony.
A singular female is a 'woman'. The plural of that is 'women'. And no, I don't have anything better to do than correct your spelling.
Do you have a source for that claim?
The bigger sin is that the kid is 15 years old and only in the third grade. How come nothing is being said about that?
Shhh, don't give them any more ideas.
Try reading the article. The kid is eight years old.
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Touche’. Got misinformed from another source saying the child was 15. My bad...
Yeah, I know. Maybe they didn’t think of this one yet and here I am spilling it.
There was an episode of “House” with a girl who was overweight. Dr. Chase, the one with the British accent, kept saying how if she’d just eat less and get off her lazy butt, that she’d lose weight. Turns out, she had a pituitary tumor. She lost the weight once it was removed. I wish people wouldn’t be so quick to judge.
For me personally, I gained 20 pounds in the past 3 years. A recent blood test shows that my thyroid is barely functioning.
LOL! Yes, the possibilities are endless!
Ezekiel even included a “/s” tag on his post #3...
Nope. They shoud have waited until he died of a heart attack at 14. Then do something about it.
Big fat bone in his A**.
I wonder what the abortion rate would jump to if they ever found a “gay gene.” Or would that then be a hate crime?
It struck me on Thanksgiving that I can not remember the last time I ate because I was “hungry.”
I eat because it’s lunchtime. Or dinner time. Or someone else in the house is eating. Or because that piece of pie looks tasty...or because that donut looked at me funny, she was asking for it.
Yes, I am overweight.
I believe that one very good way to lose weight is to only eat when you are hungry and when you are no longer hungry....stop. I lost 36 lbs this past spring, 290 to 254. I kept it off by using that very philosophy.
I have 30 more to go but that will come after the holiday season.
you gonna eat that???  That boy's liver has been poisoned by the stuff sitting right in front of him. Sugar. That looks like a medium drink. They used to be 24 ounces but McD recently changed the medium to a 21 oz cup. They also put in ice, so they only count the 'new medium' drink as having 58 grams of sugar. OK, so using McD's new cup data... That drink contains either 29 grams of FRUCTOSE (if it was sweetened with sugar), or 32 grams of FRUCTOSE (if it was sweetened with HFCS). Either way, they're both almostt equally bad. Fructose in large quantities poisons the liver much like alcohol does. It brings on non-alcoholic-fatty-liver disease, that equates to the metabolic syndrome, that causes diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease and more.  Full grown adults can only detoxify about 35 grams of Fructose in one day. Any more than that, and the liver starts plugging up with tiny spheres of fructose-induced fat that the liver cannot get rid of. A small boy has a much smaller liver and can only detox about a third of that (lets say 10 grams of fructose PER DAY). But this kid is putting about 30 grams of fructose into his liver just from that one sweetened soda alone. He probably drinks 2 to 3 times that amount of sugar-sweetened drinks every day. And he gets more sugar within that meal, and throughout the day in almost every other food he eats. People should stop demonizing 'just' High Fructose Corn Syrup, because that's not the real problem; Switching back to equivalent amounts of "real sugar" is almost equally bad. Most baby-boomers can attest to the fact that around age 40 our metabolisms slowed down and we started gaining weight uncontrollably. That was because it used to take about that long for our livers to plug up. It now happens MUCH faster because there is so much more sugar in all foods than there used to be (before dietary fat was demonized). A SnackWell's snack is an example. When dietary fat was declared 'bad', SnackWells took out most of the fat, but had to replace that with sugar or their product tasted like cardboard. Another nasty thing fructose does is it signals your body to GROW MORE fat cells. Its called nuvo-lipo-genesis. Humans used to only get small amounts of fructose throughout the year, except for autumn harvest, when the fructose (mostly in fruit) helped our bodies fatten up for winter. That used to be a good thing and helped us survive winters. Fruits now contain MUCH more sugar (thanks to food engineering), plus we refine it into sugar and eat it all year long in huge amounts.   |
Not sure why you’ve pinged me with that crap. Maybe you should’ve started your own thread. Please don’t do it again.
Growing up I was one of twelve. We were NOT allowed to eat unless it was meal time.
I find it very disturbing to see children who are never without a soda pop, snack or food it’s like a constant hand to mouth habitual oral fixation.
And of course if you are “poor” the FOOD IS FREE! EAT UP!
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