I think this family looks podgy, pasty and generally unhealthy, yet...

[Anna8888]

the article describes the girl as being "in perfectly good health".

Opinions?

this food phobia was once on house of tiny tearaways

why on earth are you comenting on how they all look? they look the same, the two girls, body wise etc, despite one of them having a PHOBIA about food.

The one who eats normally looks as healthy as the one who eats choc.

She says she doesn't choose too, she is scared by food.

i really don't understand your op, and what you are tryign to say?

Well, you've made it quite clear what your opinion is.

To be honest, Anna, I think she looks in remarkably good health given her diet - I'd have expected her to look a lot worse!

agree Habbibu - but if she's had that diet fro the best part of her life, then I would say she's really not in good health.

Good that they're doing something about it though.

Habbibu - you have a point

But I still don't think anyone in the picture looks "in perfectly good health".

Yes, belgo - I guess that kind of diet might well set in train problems in later life - I hope she does get it sorted. Anna, I suppose "perfectly" is hyperbole - presumably it means that she currently doesn't appear to have many more health problems that her peers. There's something of a gradation between "just about to keel over" and say, triathlete who grows and eats own veg and quinoa and never so much as sneezes - I mean, if the latter is "perfect" health then we're mostly destined to fail...

I wasn't interpreting "perfectly good" as "perfect".

I certainly don't know many children who are as white and podgy as that...

Anna - you are fattist, you do realise that don't you?

would that be because the french seem to believe that 'perfectly good health' involves looking a lollipop and wearing high fashion clothes?

"Pasty"

Associating a tan with good health went out of fashion 20 years ago, didn't it?

i think you have a bit of an unhealthy obsession with the health of other people, who are in no way related to you.

I think they look v overweight - their normal diet cannot be good setting aside food "phobias"

For fuck's sake Anna, the child can't help being caucasian.

Whiteness isn't an indicator of ill-health, Anna - that's genetics and environment. I'm in Scotland, and lots of very healthy people here are also very pale.

the parents look overweight, but not horrifically so, and the girls look, well, normal, although we are so used to people in the public eye having no body fat ata all, that normal or overweight people appear a lot worse than they truly are.

I think my computer brightness must be set differently to everyone else's. The family in the picture actually look slightly tanned to me.

Being thin doesnot equal health

I ran the marathon and still could have done away with another stone and a half , my SIL both extremely slim couldn't run down the road .

I am very pale. My whole family is pale. I dont think tan = healthy. In fact it often means exactly the opposite.

The people in the picture are not slim or skinny but they are nowhere near as big as some people who are still considered normal.

She's a bit plump but the pale skin often goes with that shade of red hair doesn't it? Anna, you might be used to seeing a population with more olive complexions so you think they look washed out.

I wonder what tests they have done to determine how healthy the girl is?

Her diet appears to be lacking virtually anything of nutritional benefit.

And by perfectly good health, they probably mean not falling over in the street. It's The Telegraph after all so the story is bound to be empty of any real content.

they are probably judging her health by things like days off from school, visits to the doctor etc. Agree that diet is awful - am not responding to that more so the OP's stance on skin colour as an indicator of health.

CrushWithEyeliner....."v overweight"????
The Mum looks bigger but the two girls don't look very overweight imo. Hard to tell with the younger girl but the one in jeans and black top could in no way be called very overweight

Myself and my DDs are milk bottle white, blue eyes and reddish hair but that is our celtic origins and we keep out the sum as factor 50 still doesn't cut it with us.

They look OK to me. The chocolate-eating one isn't even zitty, which you might have expected at her age, particularly with a chocolate-only diet.

But what bemuses me is how come these food-phobic kids always fixate on either chocolate or McDonaldsas their only foodstuff?