Obesity kills 3-year old

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klah

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fat kills 3yo girl
A THREE-year-old British girl has died from heart failure brought on by obesity, prompting warnings that Australia risks following Britain, where children are "choking on their own fat".
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Last month, research by Sydney's Royal Prince Alfred Hospital revealed that obese children as young as nine suffered from vascular disease that can lead to heart attacks and strokes.
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The three-year-old girl who died from obesity-related heart failure is thought to be the first case of its kind in Britain. Dr Sheila McKenzie, a consultant at the Royal London Hospital, told the committee one child at her obesity clinic died weighing six stone(~100#) - three times the ideal weight for her age.
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Shouldn't this be prosecuted as a Depraved Indifference Homicide?
 
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Originally posted by: klah
fat kills 3yo girl
A THREE-year-old British girl has died from heart failure brought on by obesity, prompting warnings that Australia risks following Britain, where children are "choking on their own fat".
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Last month, research by Sydney's Royal Prince Alfred Hospital revealed that obese children as young as nine suffered from vascular disease that can lead to heart attacks and strokes.
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Food chiefs in the dock </a>
The three-year-old girl who died from obesity-related heart failure is thought to be the first case of its kind in Britain. Dr Sheila McKenzie, a consultant at the Royal London Hospital, told the committee one child at her obesity clinic died weighing six stone(~100#) - three times the ideal weight for her age.
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Shouldn't this be prosecuted as a Depraved Indifference Homicide?
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Not sure what DIH is exactly, but it's child abuse undoubtedly. Parents with fat kids are parents who are not caring enough.

OMG I SAID IT YES I DID!
 
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Steve

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One 'stone' is fourteen pounds, right? So she'd have weighed 84 lbs at age three....
 
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ROTC1983

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Just wow, I can't believe someone would let their kid consume so much food to become so big :(
 
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Gurck

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Originally posted by: sm8000
One 'stone' is fourteen pounds, right? So she'd have weighed 84 lbs at age three....
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Yep, 14. That's horrendous, and I'll agree that the parents are to blame. I'm not sure what happened, but the art form of parenting has been utterly and completely lost for around fifty years now, obesity being just one symptom.
 
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ATLien247

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Are we to assume that this girl's obesity was caused by overeating? Or might it have been caused by something else, like a thyroid problem or something?
 
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Gurck

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Originally posted by: ATLien247
Are we to assume that this girl's obesity was caused by overeating? Or might it have been caused by something else, like a thyroid problem or something?
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Metabolism isn't to blame for the vast, vast majority of people who're overweight. Humans are very adaptable, it's been suggested that this above all else - even opposable thumbs and intelligence - may be why we've survived &amp; prospered. Those with lower metabolisms need to adapt or be overweight - and this is coming from someone who could stand to lose a few pounds. Only a select few truly are overweight due to circumstances beyond their control.
 
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Strk

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While I do feel sorry for the loss, it just amazes me whenever I hear stories about the obesity in children. I mean, I didn't weigh over 100lbs until I was 13, yet there are 5 year olds weighing more than that now.
 
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Bryophyte

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Yesterday, I saw a three year old boy who was really fat. He wasn't wearing shoes, and I wonder if that was because they couldn't find shoes to fit him. He was with his grandpa at school, to pick up another grandchild (cousin.) The grandpa commented to someone he knew "we've gotten him down to 70 pounds"... Wonder whether his grandparents got custody because his parents got him into such a disasterous weight.
 
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jagec

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Originally posted by: Azraele
The parents should be held at least partly responsible.
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Unless a doctor can certify that there is a medical reason for their fat (and "low metabolism" doesn't cut it), parents should be held 100% responsible for fat kids until, say, 10 years old or so.

There will be weekly sessions where all the parents of fat kids and all the prisoners in state prisons are rounded up, and the prisoners get free hits for 5 minutes. That would cure the problem.
 
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