Nearly 400-Pound Boy, 13, Collapses, Dies on Football Field

And all it generates is wrong point after wrong point.

"An obese eighth-grader's sudden death during a football conditioning lap has revived discussion about whether testing children's hearts before they engage in sports or strenuous activity is necessary.

Anthony Troupe Jr. collapsed last week on a suburban St. Louis football field before he finished running a lap before practice. The oversized 13-year-old was pronounced dead at a local hospital an hour later."

And what is the conversation about?

"In the U.S., screening is the subject of debate, which centers around cost and the concern over an able athlete being held back because of non-definitive test results, Patterson said. He believes anyone who wants to engage in competitive athletics should have an EKG to detect problems resulting in sudden cardiac death in athletes.

'But do you do an EKG on 5 million kids to find 15 cases?' asks Dr. Robert Eckel, past president of the American Heart Association and professor of medicine at University of Colorado Denver Medical School. 'It's a matter of cost and benefit.'

On the other hand, he said, 'If you're a parent who has lost a child, an EKG should have been done.'"

As millions of children are set-ups for less dramatic illnesses that cripple, cause suffering and pain, all they can debate is this one unfortunate and sensational case.

The rest of the children are ignored.

And who is to blame?

The parents, teachers, principals, doctors, nurses, et. al., who did squat in violation of their legally mandated duties, to help this poor kid (and the others) who are the victims of nutritional child abuse.

These are the guardians, first and second line, of our children.

For shame.