obese child fed on diet of chips

[spongebrainbigpants]

words fail me . . .

www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1025023/Obese-just-18-months-little-girl-raised-diet-chips.html

I heard about this on the radio - so how did she get to like chips and coke in the first place ? someone must've fed them to her

her mother wants shooting, but this is perfect fodder for the DM, isn't it ?!

[cynical]

How bloody typical of that DM rag. I'll bet they were gutted she wasn't a single parent or an immigrant on benefits. Least they managed to slip in the fact she had a few children though, eh.

my daughter is three in Oct, she weighs 2st 2lbs too, but she's a skinny minx, sticky out ribs etc.
Better hope the DM dont get hold of my details or hope DD doesn't put on any weight in the next year, so she averages out

actually words dont fail me.

dd2 was this weight at a year old. i was told to put her on a diet and i refused. was i being irresponsible? No, i knew dd2 was eating ok, she just put on weight quickly. she was very tall and her height corresponded to her weightm despite the hv dimissing that as not relevent.

dd2 is now 5, very tall and lean. she doesnt have an ounce of fat on her. she stands heads and shoulders above her class mates, has big feet and when she runes, looks like a wild pony with her arms and legs lean and working hard.

obviously crisps, chips and coke arent ideal for a baby, but i hate this article for the way it implys that being big at this very yung age is a bad thing.

oh and the crappy picture i saw related to this article (may not have been on mail site, it was yesterday i read it) had the baby eaing what looks like deep fried chips.

my kids like chips, i use potaoes cut up, boiled for 3 mins, drained until dry, toss them about in the pan for a minute to rough up the edges, spray with one cal oil spray and then oven back. they love them.

actually, I thought the child was going to look enormous but in the pictures she looks quite normal to me

i have no idea what my children weigh

why do you weigh yours?

I was alarmed to hear that doctors thought ds was too skinny last year and he has a fabulously healthy diet and eats very well...made me feel like a very bad mother who starves her child.

DD likes to stand on the scales
Not sure why, as I rarely weigh myself, but she'll often stand on them when I'm having a bath, I think she just likes to see the numbers (obsessed with numbers at the minute)

If you gave the child nothing but vegetables for a few days, she'd eat them soon enough.

Maybe the mum isn't sure about how to make vegetables tasty and appealing to a child?

It would have been helpful of the newspaper to maybe include a recipe or some tips to encourage parents and children towards veggies.

I remember once on another parenting website, one mother getting really angry when someone suggested giving her children chips every other day wasn't a particularly balanced diet.

I don't understand the UK's love affair with chips, to be honest. They're ok but it's not like they're the most delicious food ever made, is it?

Note the high quality journalism - pic of kid scoffing a chip, ffs!

it's not normal to be fed coke and chips, why is this turning into another Daily Mail rant ?

I think childrens weight is a very bad area to be honest!
We were "in trouble" with the HV as DD dropped down the charts from something like 98% to less than 20% - they tried to convince us to formula feed, and to feed her more.
I was in tears after some visits, DD was eating loads, all healthy stuff and I'd say the only way I coudl make her put weight on as they were pushing would be to feed her sweets / chocolate all the time.

i agree child looks normal. but boak @ mother eating chips in chocolate sauce. i was sweet toothed and carbtastic when i was pregnant but that would have had me running for the broccoli.

I hate the DM too, but I wasn't commenting on her weight but her diet - surely no one would recommend this as a diet for any child, it is seriously deficient in nutrition and she is storing up major problems for her future health

or is this a normal diet for a toddler nowadays - am I missing something?

yes I was wondering that too - how this family and the media have hooked up with each other. or whether the family approached the daily mail

I think it is in the paper as the child is going to be on a TV programme for "britians fattest children and their shite parents" or something like that.

no the diet isnt great. but hate that piture of the baby eating what loo kto me like proper chip shop chips.

but what i'm saying is you can feed your children a normal diety and they would still be bigger than this.

mildmannered, the story is taken from a programme on tomorrow night called 'Britain's Biggest Babies - that's why it's in the paper

aha I see (sort of) how they ended up in the DM. not quite sure why anyone would volunteer for the britian's biggest babies, mind.

I'm with Misdee on this one - the kid is big for her age, and eats chips sometimes. May not necessarily be cause and effect.

totalchaos, some people will literally do ANYTHING to get on tv!