OMFG, she's FAT!!!

[TransformX]

http://www.metacafe.co.il/watch/576380/fattest_child_in_the_world/

[Brian Ellis]

222 kg at 7! She should be put in care.

[Technoid]

or at least on a diet and excercice plan....

[Nowhere]

Ahhh...but the mother won't do that, she loves her baby too much (and BTW...why is she still allowed to "care" about her baby?)

[Admiral]

sad

[RhinoZ]

That looks like no fun for the kid at all.

[NetSnake]

they should arrest that mother!!!

[Fat Tone]

That is too sad to watch. The mother is abusing the child. Stop it now.

[Brian Ellis]

Abusing or slowly murdering?

[ZokesPro]

I'm speechless. She weighs 2.64 times my current weight!! That kid is going to have a heart attack before she's 10 years old.

[Jammrock]

There was a kid here in the Carolinas who was taken by the state because he was so fat and his parents weren't trying to curb his weight. Granted, there are actual desieses where weight control and growth cannot be stopped by any means, but those are very very rare. I remember seeing a show about a kid in the UK like that, but he was only the third or fourth person ever to be diagnosed with that actual desiese.

[Dr Mordrid]

Absent Prader-Willi syndrome this sounds like some form of child abuse.


Childhood:

* Speech delay
* Poor physical coordination
* Hyperphagia (over-eating from age 2 - 4years.)
* Excessive weight gain

Adolescence:

* Delayed puberty
* Short stature
* Obesity

Adulthood:

* Infertility (males and females)
* Hypogonadism
* Sparse pubic hair
* Obesity
* Hypotonia
* Learning disabilities/borderline intellectual functioning (but some cases of average intelligence)
* Proneness to diabetes mellitus

[cjolley]

...
Granted, there are actual desieses where weight control and growth cannot be stopped by any means...

I'm not willing to grant that.
It would violate the first law of thermodynamics.

Looks like a pretty near relative of the worst kind of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy

[Jammrock]

I'm not willing to grant that.
It would violate the first law of thermodynamics.

You might not be willing to grant it, but it's true. I've seen a 6' (180 cm) tall 8-year old because of a pituitary tumor. And I did see a show about a UK child that had a rare, and rare as in maybe 1-2 reported cases per generation, whose body could not control it's growth. He was <2 years old and wearing adult diapers because he would not fit in baby diapers anymore. He was on a controlled diet and saw doctors weekly, yet he was so huge his muscles and bone could not support his standing weight. I forget the name of the show and the disease, but things like that are out there, however rare.

As for thermodynamics, they do not apply so easily to humans as they do inert objects. Human growth is in large part controlled by the body. Extra calories are either processed and stored in fat or ejected from the body. The rate at which you grow up, how much muscle mass to produce, how much to store in fat etc. are controlled by the body. So simply saying, "thermodynamics says you're wrong," is in and of itself inaccurate.

BTW, I'm not saying this particular kid has any other disease but a potential bad parent. Just that I've seen cases where growth like this can be uncontrolable.

Jammrock

[cjolley]

Well, yes.
Certainly I don't mean that regarding height.
But a kid that fat is being fed too much.
The fat doesn't form it's self out of thin air no matter what is wrong with thier hormones.