A couple of days ago there was a news story describing how elementary schools in the UK are considering sending warning letters home to the parents of overweight children about the health-related dangers of being overweight or obese.
Nobody is denying that obesity has become a significant health crisis in the western world; and one that [...]
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The boy who cried “obesity!”.
When ignorance isn’t bliss.
Yesterday a story about an 8 year-old boy, Connor McCreaddie, in the UK who may be taken away from his mother for being severely overweight hit the news. According to health and social authorities, the boy, weighing in at 14 stone (approximately 89kg or 196lbs), required an immediate intervention to save him from the [...]