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Default Take away the fat kids?

Bryan wrote:
> On Jul 14, 6:26 pm, Serene Vannoy > wrote:
>> On 07/14/2011 11:58 AM, Polly Esther wrote:
>>
>>> What do you think about this? Yesterday ABC news was talking about a
>>> Harvard professor who suggests the gov't should take kids away from
>>> their parents if the chunky little darlings are over weight. Sounds
>>> like a plan to me but what is the state going to do with them when
>>> they take them?

>>
>> When it's happened in the past (and it has), the children have been
>> quietly returned to their parents, because they didn't lose weight in
>> foster care. Oh, gosh, traumatizing kids doesn't make them thin? Huge
>> surprise.

>
> Keeping them the heck away from carbohydrates makes them thin.


Low carb diets are not recommended for growing kids.