Drastic steps to slim down obese kids
Caroline:
February 26th, 2007
Reading about the obese 8 year old who risks being taken into care if his family do not address his problem made me think about the programme I watched on Sat about Jack, the morbidly obese 16year old. The programme followed his journey to New York where he was fitted with a gastric band to help him reduce his weight from 21st. According to Jack dieting has never worked for him but I was left wondering just how much effort he and his family had put into his diets or whether they saw the gastric band as an easy solution. His relationship with food was demonstrated by the feast which his mother produced for him the night before he started his pre-op diet. Jack was seen bingeing on pizza, burgers, sausage rolls, quiche, scotch eggs and pork pie to name but a few. Ironically after only two weeks of the pre-op diet he had lost a stone and a half. Perhaps if he had shown the same determination to stick to other diets this drastic step need never have been taken.