In Ohio, an eight year, old third grader, was removed from his parents hoe and sent to foster care because it was decided his parents weren't doing enough to maintain his weight and, thus, his health. The boy weights 218 pounds. "A spokeswoman says the county removed the child because caseworkers saw his mother's inability to reduce his weight as medical neglect." The mother blames the ads for fast food and says she tries to control his eating. No mention was made about the weight of the parents or any other household members.
Strangely, it is difficult to believe that a parent do more to limit the child's intake. They need not take him to fast food restaurants nor buy fattening food.However, when we hear the potato lobby is powerful enough to get schools serve French Fries with every meal. it does take some of the responsibility away from the parent if he receives school meals. Further, since the food growing lobbyists have also forced the non-medical, dietary challenged Congress to claim tomato sauce on pizza as a vegetable and proper meal for children, one has to wonder why the authorities take it on themselves to assume the parents are totally to blame.
Obesity in children has become a far greater problem than this child or just a few children. It is of epidemic proportions in the US today. A local paper writes: "Last year, the boy lost weight but in recent months began to gain it back rapidly. That's when the county moved to take the child, records show.
The mother said that when she found out that other kids and a sibling might be giving her son extra food, she tried to put a stop to it and explain to him that he could eat only certain foods.
She tried to follow the recommendations of the doctors, such as getting him a bike and encouraging him to get exercise. The mother wonders what role genetics plays in the boy's condition -- both she and his father and some other family members are overweight, she said. However, she also has a 16-year-old son who is tall and thin."
It amazes me that people are so uncreative in their solutions to a problem. It would appear that there are probably about 1385 children in that area who are obese. There aren't enough foster home so there needs to be a program that offers healthy, low caloric food for children, exercise programs, such as many other cities and towns have begun to use.
If Ohio had politicians running the state that cared about its children, better solutions would be found for all the children, not just foster homes for a few. Children should be offered more real-world activities and fewer virtual ones.
Strangely, it is difficult to believe that a parent do more to limit the child's intake. They need not take him to fast food restaurants nor buy fattening food.However, when we hear the potato lobby is powerful enough to get schools serve French Fries with every meal. it does take some of the responsibility away from the parent if he receives school meals. Further, since the food growing lobbyists have also forced the non-medical, dietary challenged Congress to claim tomato sauce on pizza as a vegetable and proper meal for children, one has to wonder why the authorities take it on themselves to assume the parents are totally to blame.
Obesity in children has become a far greater problem than this child or just a few children. It is of epidemic proportions in the US today. A local paper writes: "Last year, the boy lost weight but in recent months began to gain it back rapidly. That's when the county moved to take the child, records show.
The mother said that when she found out that other kids and a sibling might be giving her son extra food, she tried to put a stop to it and explain to him that he could eat only certain foods.
She tried to follow the recommendations of the doctors, such as getting him a bike and encouraging him to get exercise. The mother wonders what role genetics plays in the boy's condition -- both she and his father and some other family members are overweight, she said. However, she also has a 16-year-old son who is tall and thin."
It amazes me that people are so uncreative in their solutions to a problem. It would appear that there are probably about 1385 children in that area who are obese. There aren't enough foster home so there needs to be a program that offers healthy, low caloric food for children, exercise programs, such as many other cities and towns have begun to use.
If Ohio had politicians running the state that cared about its children, better solutions would be found for all the children, not just foster homes for a few. Children should be offered more real-world activities and fewer virtual ones.
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