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Overfeeding Your Child May be Considered a Crime
Tuesday, July 29, 2008 by: David Gutierrez | Key concepts: overweight,
obesity and child protection
(NaturalNews) Obesity was a factor in up to two dozen child protection
cases in the United Kingdom in 2007, according to an investigation
conducted by the BBC.
The BBC cites this as only part of a growing trend toward the
stigmatization of the overweight and obese.
"When we first started talking about obesity as a problem, it was very
hard to be heard," said Dr Ian Campbell of the nonprofit Weight
Concern. "Now the pendulum has swung too far the other way -- we hear
nothing but. And the net result is that the kind of moralizing the
obese and overweight have always suffered has somehow become
institutionalized."
On the one hand, some health professionals have said that overfeeding
children is tantamount to child abuse. Overweight children are more
likely to develop childhood diabetes, high blood pressure, high
cholesterol and other problems that more typically develop later in
age. They are also more likely to grow into obese adults, and are thus
at a higher risk of adult heart disease, diabetes, various cancers and
other health problems that lead to earlier death.
These were among the reasons that led British child protection
officials to threaten to take an obese boy away from his mother in
early 2007. He was eventually allowed to remain.
As part of the same trend, at least eight National Health Service
trusts in the United Kingdom have introduced bans or restrictions on
providing non-urgent surgery to those who are overweight. The trusts
argue that patients with a lower body weight recover better and are
more likely to have successful operations. But critics accuse the
health industry of simply using the overweight as a convenient way to
cut costs.
"This is really about resources," said Colin Waine, chair of the
National Obesity Forum. "You can't argue that denying a hip-and-knee
operation to an obese person is in their interests, as it may well be
the inability to walk about and exercise which is making their
problems worse."
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> ANZHP symposium: Obesity - should there be a law against it?
> (Edited by Roger Magnusson (Coordinator))http://www.anzhealthpolicy.com/articles/theme-series.asp?series=1743-...
>
> Editorial
> Obesity: should there be a law against it? Introduction to a symposium
> Roger S Magnusson
>
> Faculty of Law, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
>
> Australia and New Zealand Health Policy 2008, 5:9doi:
> 10.1186/1743-8462-5-9
>
> Published: 5 June 2008
>
> Abstract
> The rapid rise in rates of overweight and obesity among adults and
> children in Australia and New Zealand has intensified debate about the
> most effective policies for obesity prevention. Law has much to
> contribute to this policy discussion, although its role is often
> misunderstood. The articles in this symposium follow on from a
> conference hosted in September 2006 by the Centre for Health
> Governance, Law & Ethics in the Faculty of Law, University of Sydney,
> titled: Obesity: should there be a law against it? In different ways,
> these articles provide a variety of perspectives on regulatory
> responses to obesity, including theoretical justifications for a legal
> approach, conceptual models that assist in making sense of law's role,
> as well as specific legal strategies for obesity prevention in various
> settings.
>
> Who loves ya.
> Tom
>
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>
> Man Is A Herbivore!http://tinyurl.com/4rq595
>
> DEAD PEOPLE WALKINGhttp://tinyurl.com/zk9fk
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