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

[Anna8888]

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

Opinions?

enid - ice cream, ds1 will only have plain vanilla (without bits in). He has recently added mini milks to things he likes.

I'm not bothered about those things. I am bothered about the lack of protein and fruit and veg, because his only source of protein is cheese/mince/fishfingers/milk. He occasionally has eggs in pancakes, but won't eat any other meat, any nuts etc. It bothers me from a health point of view (though I think atm he is fairly balanced), and also from a social point of view.

enid - I knew after I typed that it looked like I meant you - didn't at all, was meaning further up the thread - sorry!

And I agree nothing but chocolate is silly!

lol - the children are watching Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Augustus Gloop is on, eating nothing but chocolate!

(Enid, feeling bad now, REALLY wasn't meaning you! Some of the comments further up the thread are very much 'blame the parents for everything').

tortoise, I think mince/fish/cheese/milk is fine - it's three types of protein. And meat is a complete protein so contains all the amino acids human beings need.

Many vile remarks on this thread. Esp. Cod- why the ned to label them working class. How snobby.
Anna/Cod- Mind your own business.
Put up pictures of you and your family and we will have an in depth discussion on your appearance.

I thought you wrote mice/fish/cheese.... Yum yum

The only eating chocolate things is odd imo. Chocolate fingers for breakfast? How did they ever get to that stage? Surely she ate food when she was weaned? They didn't just feed her blended choc fingers I'm sure.

And even if they are a little overweight you can still be in perfectly good health you know. As in no blood pressure/heart probs etc.

Tortoiseshell, it does look like your DS is eating a very good, balanced diet. With my sister (now 25!!), I can entirely understand it.

About a year ago, she went to the GP to say she wanted to do something about her restricted diet. She listed everything she ate-
So, baked beans, peas, boiled potatoes, carrots, mince, chicken breast, milk, apple/orange juice with no bits in, chocolate, Heinz tomato soup, and maybe a fishfinger or two.

The GP said to her -oh, you don't need to see a specialist (Ie, psychologist, or nutritionist, or therapist.... to get to the root of this problem she's had all her life), your diet is fine, you get everything you need, go away and stop worrying.

This reaction from the GP pissed me off beyond belief. It has taken her this long to pluck up the courage and say to a professional 'I have a problem, and I want to sort it out somehow', and to have th GP dismiss her so off-hand. Ggggrrr...

The problem is not nutritional, it's social! She HATES going out for dinner with people, over to people's houses, HATES having to explain herself, gets embarrassed, HATES to have attention brought to the fact that she has these hangups.....
Sorting out food phobias and fussiness is not necessarily always to do with the nutritional impact. It's got everything to do with how this child is going to cope as an adult in later life and just get on with it.

I think you are doing exactly all the right things Tortoiseshell. If you can hide stuff, do. There will get to a point you can rationalise with your son, say he's eaten X before, then slowly show him you putting it in the food..... then slowly stop blending it (with my sister, she won't eat onion, so I started blending it, and putting it in bolognese etc... if she was staying with us... told her later, now she knows it's there she'll still eat it. Next step, NO BLENDING!!! Then maybe after that tinned 'limpy' tomato and not passata..!!)

It may take years, but slow and steady wins the race right? Your DS is lucky to have such a dedicated, intelligent, inventive(!) mother who puts the time and energy into it. I think the girl in the news' parents just don't / haven't put the time and energy into it. Well, not enough anyway. And certainly not soon enough!!

'limpy', meant 'lumpy'...

and sorry that post was sooooooo long!

I've only skimmed this thread, but I would like to nominate the following for quote of the week:

By SmugColditz on Sat 14-Jun-08 09:58:04

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

PMSL

SHe is healthy looking considering, but she is also plumper than I'd like my daughter to be. Heck she's plumper than I am. Plumper than my mother is. So I wouldn't say she was the 'picture' of health.

I think her colouring is lovely though.

Why has anyone felt the need to comment that the mother, in their opinion, has a hand that looks "beadle esque"? Why is that in anyway relevant to the diet of the dd? And why is it amusing? "lol @ beadle esque"
If I wrote " I bet they all m**g in front of the tv all day ha ha lol" world war 3 would break out on here.
I think some here have been unneccessarily cruel and I hope no one from the family has had the misfortune to read this.

Chocolate is an indulgence in most ppls' minds and the story would have evoked a different response if all she ate was broccoli.

I have every sympathy with faddy eaters as I was one, I certainly wouldn't describe my automatic rejection of trying new things/textures a phobia though. I would never turn my food advoidance into a drama (which indicates other issues imo) nor was my diet so restricted it would have damaged my health. In fact given my sporting commitments I was extremely fit.

My mother was endless patient re my faddiness but I strongly suspect that she would have stopped buying chocolate if I was that child in the story. My mother could also have had shares in Minadex .

It will be interesting to watch the programme and see if the child's mono-diet dominates the family and whether she is physically active.

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Oh, I see. So it was a deliberate attempt to cause outrage. You must be terribly disappointed only I took the bait.

FWIW I wasn't outraged at all, just sad that it's ok to make comments about perceived disability for entertainment.
Thats one thing I don't like about this website....the hypocrisy that occurs. If I had made that remark I would have been well and truely flamed but no one bats an eyelid when others say it.

Anna, lucky you that you don't know what it is like to be scared of going to your best friends house for a sleep over because you are scared you will not like your breakfast - this was when I was 15.
Or now, as an adult to be petrified if someone invites you and your partner to a dinner party, in case any of the veg touch each other as you have such a imited amount of food you can eat with out wanting to puke in terror. If you lived like this girl or in deed me, then you have a right to comment.

Jeremy Beadle had a hand condition ....his hand was a bit malformed ..not sure why. So I deduce that the Mum's hand must look malformed.

Not read all the posts as there are too many but how the f&&& can someone be in 'perfectly good health' from eating only chocolate? It lacks a large number of vital vitamins etc required for a healthy body.

Beadle had Poland Syndrome.. a congenital condition

Tortoishell - you could be describing my DS1 (7yrs). He has massivley improved and has "graduated" to just being a fussy eater but we are always on a guard incase he slips back.

I have cried myself to sleep in the past over it. I do blame myself but have racked my brains and cannot think why this has happened.

FWIW I don't think the medical profession take it seriously and we had to sort it ourselves.

DS2 eats anything and will try new foods no probs. DS1 - big massive fuss pot.

just checking in as mum of 1 x fussy eater and 1 x great eater

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