A Little Girl With a Big Appetite and Even Bigger Temper

Parental child abuse.

"Just shy of her fifth birthday, Kayla is 105 pounds, twice the average weight for a child her age...

Kayla has been overweight since she was a baby. At 18 months she began sneaking food out of the refrigerator. No one in her family has a problem with obesity, so it never occurred to Kayla's parents to limit her food intake. But by age 2 she weighed 52 pounds  twice the recommended weight."

Now before you think this child has an organic problem causing her obesity:

"'Kayla has been tested from head to toe, from a [CT] scan of the head looking for a trigger of the pituitary gland, every blood test you can mention. [The doctors] tested her for Prader-Willi, thyroid, diabetes and anything you can imagine and all came out negative. Even her hemoglobin is OK. The last blood work was for a genetics disease and [it was] negative...'" (italics in the original)

'It's just nasty,' she [the not quite 5 year old] says in a voice that is both screaming and pleading. 'Give me treats, I don't have time for this!'

Matos struggles to hold her ground. Hovering in the background is Matos' bewildered mother and Kayla's grandmother...

'I've been trying and trying and trying,' she says. 'We try to control her weight, we do exercise, she's a very active child and I don't know where this compulsiveness is coming from.'

A year ago, after extensive testing, doctors in Chicago determined that there was nothing medically wrong with Kayla and that she was simply eating too much and getting too little exercise.

'I believe that Kayla has been rewarded with food,' social worker Sandra Vieyra told ABC News last year, 'and I believe that therefore, emotionally she likes her food and she wants more and more of it. & (sic) It's easier to prevent her tantrum than it is to really stay firm.'

Kayla spots some snacks for her big brother's school lunch and demands some.

Matos goes to the car to hide the snacks in the trunk. While she is outside Kayla's tantrum continues. Her grandmother gives the girl her own lunch.

Kayla wins."

Time to take the kid from the home and charge the parents for room, board and therapy.

"At the Publix supermarket, Matos tries to choose foods carefully. 'I don't like that!' screams Kayla as her mother selects a healthy cheese."

Cheese is high in Calories and fat.

'Nuff said.

Except for the irony.

Here is ABCNews making it appear as if they care when their stars and broadcasts are among the killers and killing machine behind the overweight/obesity epidemic, IMHO.