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Ohio puts 200-pound third-grader in foster care
Yahoo/AP ^ | 11/28/11

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)

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: diabetes; foodpolice; fructose; govtabuse; lustig; nafld; nannystate; obesity; sugar; toxic
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To: EBH

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.


41 posted on 11/28/2011 7:44:01 AM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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To: dagogo redux

It feels like you’ve left out several agencies and a Czar or two, but I’ll be darned if I know which ones...


42 posted on 11/28/2011 7:46:38 AM PST by null and void (This is day 1042 of America's ObamaVacation from reality.)
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To: org.whodat
This women is an idiot,...

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.

43 posted on 11/28/2011 8:06:52 AM PST by Washi
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To: petercooper

Do you have a source for that claim?


44 posted on 11/28/2011 8:09:23 AM PST by TankerKC (Welcome to the age of "I Meant to Do That" Diplomacy)
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To: EBH

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?


45 posted on 11/28/2011 8:18:24 AM PST by CTOCS (I live in my own little world. But, it's okay. They know me there....)
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To: samtheman
Maybe they should outlaw obesity; make it a felony.

Shhh, don't give them any more ideas.

46 posted on 11/28/2011 8:37:24 AM PST by madison10
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To: CTOCS

Try reading the article. The kid is eight years old.


47 posted on 11/28/2011 8:38:45 AM PST by Focault's Pendulum (Moose Alert!!!! Get some sleeves!)
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To: EBH


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So any hypothesis that attempts to explain the obesity epidemic, must be able to explain this as well.
(09:10) Now, you all know, back in 1982, the American Heart Association, the American Medical Association, and the US Department of Agriculture, admonished us to reduce our total fat consumption from 40% to 30%. Everybody remember that? ... So what happened? We did it. We've done it. 40% calories down to 30%. And look what's happened to the obesity, metabolic syndrome, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, cardiovascular disease, stroke prevalance, ALL jacked way up as our total fat consumption as a percent, has gone down. It ain't the fat, people. It ain't the fat. So what it it? Well, it's the carbohydrate. Specifically, which carbohydrate? ... (20:05) ...But indeed, this is true, High Fructose Corn Syrup and Sugar are EXACTLY the same. They are both equally bad. They are both dangerous. They are both poison. OK?, I said it. Poison. My charge before the end of tonight, is to demonstrate that fructose is a poison. And I will do it. And you will tell me if I was successful. (22:48) So you can see that more and more of our caloric intake, a higher percentage, is being accounted for by sugar, every single year. So we're eating more; we're eating more sugar. And for adolescents today, they're up to almost 75 grams [of fructose] per day; 12% of total caloric intake. And 25% of adolescents consume at least 15% of their calories per day from fructose alone. This is a DISASTER. An absolute unmitigated disaster. The fat's going down, the sugar is going up, and we're all getting sick. Now let me show you why...
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48 posted on 11/28/2011 8:59:14 AM PST by Future Useless Eater (Chicago politics = corrupted capitalism = takeover by COMMUNity-ISM)
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To: Focault's Pendulum

Touche’. Got misinformed from another source saying the child was 15. My bad...


49 posted on 11/28/2011 9:06:22 AM PST by CTOCS (I live in my own little world. But, it's okay. They know me there....)
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To: madison10

Yeah, I know. Maybe they didn’t think of this one yet and here I am spilling it.


50 posted on 11/28/2011 9:08:12 AM PST by samtheman
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To: EBH

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.


51 posted on 11/28/2011 9:33:32 AM PST by toothfairy86
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To: null and void

LOL! Yes, the possibilities are endless!


52 posted on 11/28/2011 9:51:42 AM PST by dagogo redux (A whiff of primitive spirits in the air, harbingers of an impending descent into the feral.)
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To: CTOCS; Ezekiel; Focault's Pendulum

Ezekiel even included a “/s” tag on his post #3...


53 posted on 11/28/2011 9:57:45 AM PST by null and void (This is day 1042 of America's ObamaVacation from reality.)
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To: EBH

Nope. They shoud have waited until he died of a heart attack at 14. Then do something about it.


54 posted on 11/28/2011 10:17:31 AM PST by Grunthor (pro-illegal alien "conservatives" piss me off.)
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To: Tainan

Big fat bone in his A**.


55 posted on 11/28/2011 10:21:13 AM PST by Grunthor (pro-illegal alien "conservatives" piss me off.)
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To: Chickensoup

I wonder what the abortion rate would jump to if they ever found a “gay gene.” Or would that then be a hate crime?


56 posted on 11/28/2011 10:25:07 AM PST by Grunthor (pro-illegal alien "conservatives" piss me off.)
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To: reaganator

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.


57 posted on 11/28/2011 10:30:50 AM PST by Grunthor (pro-illegal alien "conservatives" piss me off.)
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To: Chode; EBH; petercooper; HiTech RedNeck; SteelCurtain_SSN720; King Moonracer; Abathar; bearkat; ...
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.


58 posted on 11/28/2011 11:38:36 AM PST by Future Useless Eater (Chicago politics = corrupted capitalism = takeover by COMMUNity-ISM)
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To: Future Useless Eater

Not sure why you’ve pinged me with that crap. Maybe you should’ve started your own thread. Please don’t do it again.


59 posted on 11/28/2011 12:00:18 PM PST by novemberslady
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To: Grunthor

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!


60 posted on 11/28/2011 12:30:03 PM PST by reaganator
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