'Your children are too fat. Either they lose weight or we'll take them away'

Finally, someone with the stones to do the right thing for the kids.

"A COUPLE have been told their children must lose weight – or they could be taken into care.
Social workers warned the parents they have only three months to help three of their six children shed the pounds.

They want to see an improvement by June in the 12-year-old boy, who weighs 16 stone, and two of his sisters, aged 11 and three, who weigh 12st and 4st respectively."

A stone = 14 pounds.

The 12 year old weighs 224 pounds, the 11 year old weighs 168 pounds and the 3 year old weighs 48 pounds.

"The development highlights Scotland's childhood obesity crisis, which has already forced some as young as 13 to seek NHS weight-loss surgery. Only the United States has more overweight children, underlining fears that our current generation of youngsters may not outlive their parents."

We're Number One!

"But politicians and health experts have described the intervention of social workers as 'deeply worrying' and questioned their powers to break up families."

These would be the same health experts and politicians who failed to help the kids in the first place.

Besides, families are not being broken up. Children are being saved. There is a difference.

"The 39-year-old mother, who weighs 23 stone, said: "This is every family's worst nightmare. We have been told they are going to take them from us unless three of them lose weight.

'I just can't stop crying at the thought I could lose my beautiful children for ever.'"

23 stone = 322 pounds.

You weren't crying while you were killing them by nutritional child abuse.

"She went on: 'They keep making an issue about the kids' weight. Social workers have even tried to tell us our baby is fat.

'I don't even own a deep-fat fryer. All my food is home-cooked and the kids are not fed junk food at all. I feel we are being victimised. Children can carry a bit of puppy fat, but they tend to lose it as they get older. Ours are not being given that chance.'"

You apparently don't own a brain, either.

It has nothing to do with frying. It is Calories in, Calories out and you have been shoving way too many Calories into your kids' mouths.

BTW, you are being given a chance - 3 months worth.

Shut up and stop wasting time. Hopefully the clock is really running for the sake of the kids.

"SCOTLAND is the second fattest nation on Earth, with only the US weighing in heavier.
Figures published last year found that one in six boys and one in seven girls in Scotland are obese. For adults the rate is worse, at one man in four and one woman in five...

Almost 500,000 cases of high blood pressure can be attributed to obesity, as well as more than 5,000 strokes a year and almost 30 per cent of all colon cancer cases.

The cost of treating these obesity-related diseases was last estimated six years ago, at £171 million."

Reduced-Calorie haggis, anyone?