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More obese children taken into care
The number of children taken into care each year for being too fat is in "double figures", an obesity charity said.
Social services are taking the youngsters away from their parents because they are dangerously overweight and require special care.
Tam Fry from the National Obesity Forum charity said the decision to put fat children into care was the right one.
He said: "In the case of extreme obesity we believe that the same kind of process should take place as with extreme underweight.
"Nobody moves a hair if social services take away an extremely malnourished child whilst giving the family home a makeover and therefore we feel that the extremely obese children should be taken away for the same reasons.
"Extremely obese children should be taken into care in a hospital, where doctors and nurses who are fully aware of weight-loss management can reduce the size of the child, while social services find out what the cause was and rectify the cause."
Mr Fry said that the number of obese children taken into care was "in double figures every year", but added that parents could visit their sons and daughters in hospital.
He estimated that by 2010 more than one million under 16s will be obese, and put the blame on cheap junk food and parents' inability to spot a fat child.
"Parents have become unable to recognise overweight and obesity in the areas in which they live because it's quite possible that all the children in that area are overweight. There have been really good studies showing that parents are no longer able to identify normal weight," Mr Fry said.
He added: "The food which is cheapest and most available is usually the most unhealthy. To get the most amount of energy and calories children have to eat junk food, and that stays on them and they get bigger and bigger. It's better education in parenting which is the answer."
More obese children taken into care
The number of children taken into care each year for being too fat is in "double figures", an obesity charity said.
Social services are taking the youngsters away from their parents because they are dangerously overweight and require special care.
Tam Fry from the National Obesity Forum charity said the decision to put fat children into care was the right one.
He said: "In the case of extreme obesity we believe that the same kind of process should take place as with extreme underweight.
"Nobody moves a hair if social services take away an extremely malnourished child whilst giving the family home a makeover and therefore we feel that the extremely obese children should be taken away for the same reasons.
"Extremely obese children should be taken into care in a hospital, where doctors and nurses who are fully aware of weight-loss management can reduce the size of the child, while social services find out what the cause was and rectify the cause."
Mr Fry said that the number of obese children taken into care was "in double figures every year", but added that parents could visit their sons and daughters in hospital.
He estimated that by 2010 more than one million under 16s will be obese, and put the blame on cheap junk food and parents' inability to spot a fat child.
"Parents have become unable to recognise overweight and obesity in the areas in which they live because it's quite possible that all the children in that area are overweight. There have been really good studies showing that parents are no longer able to identify normal weight," Mr Fry said.
He added: "The food which is cheapest and most available is usually the most unhealthy. To get the most amount of energy and calories children have to eat junk food, and that stays on them and they get bigger and bigger. It's better education in parenting which is the answer."
