The child, of Cleveland Heights, Ohio, weighing over 200 pounds. The average weight of boys that age should be in the neighborhood of 55-60 pounds, with the high end tip the scale at 78 pounds, according to the graph of the growth of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Even accounting for the top end of the spectrum, children were more than 250 percent are overweight.
Earlier this year, I wrote an editorial topics is simply this: lose the rights of the elderly due to obesity. It was in response to the article in the Journal of the American Medical Association, who suggested that severe penalties should be imposed on the parents in cases where their children are morbidly obese and reluctance to make food and lifestyle changes to fix the problem. In essence, it calls the parent type
This case is a good example of a child who is morbidly obese, where mother does not take adequate measures to reduce weight, and local officials feel there is a medical negligence. According to the report, cases have been monitored for over a year before social workers go to court to remove him from his mother
Obesity can lead to a number of medical problems, both in adolescents and adults, especially diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure and sleep apnea. Currently children just suffer from sleep apnea, which is fixed with a CPAP (continuous positive air pressure).