600 Pound Mom

     I was watching this TV show about this woman with 6 daughters who weights 606 pounds. She is so fat she cannot move or walk. She is stuck in her bed. What shocked me is what also shocked her new diet doctor. Unless she is lying, according to her food journal she eats only one meal a day and it's not even near a thousand calories. With a diet like that she should be skinny, even skeletal.

     The doctor said what he thinks happened is that by eating only once per day, her metabolism has shut down. He started her on a diet of 700 calories per day and has broken that up into three meals a day. Interesting. I do agree that three to six small meals per day would be good and healthy for everyone's daily diet. Do you think she's telling the truth or not?

Obese Three Year Old

     This three year old boy from China is said to weight over 130 pounds. Doctors think he has some kind of hormonal imbalance because he is also tall for his age.

      His mother says that if she doesn't give him several servings of food at one meal he will cry until he gets the food nonstop.

     I'm sure he will cry for a long time and I'm willing to bet there is something physically wrong with him. It could very well be that the child is really hungry all the time. On the other hand most of us will look at him and think let him cry he will eventually stop and mom should feed him less. I would certainly try that and maybe more veggies to fill him up. Mom, no one can cry non stop. Eventually he would exhaust himself and stop. However who knows? Since this weight is putting such a strain on his little heart, maybe the strain of screaming and crying would do more physical damage. I don't have the answer but I wish this family luck and the child, better health.