Tuesday 29 May 2012

Obese Teens - Should The State Do More?


Sunday Times columnist Minette Marrin says social services "should have stepped in years ago" to help obese teenager, Georgia Davis. She wonders why Georgia was put on the at-risk register "when that risk wasn't dealt with".

"There is a clear picture of a child in terrible need of help long before you describe her as a grown-up teenager", she told the Today programme's Sarah Montague. 

63 stone Welsh teenager, Georgia, became so overweight that she needed to be cut free from her house after collapsing with breathing problems.

You can listen to the discussion of this issue on the Today programme here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9724000/9724325.stm

1 comment:

  1. This is absolutely correct, as early as possible, us as mothers need to do something to keep our children in tiptop shape. I make sure my 15 y.o. child is fit and living a healthy life, he sure do eat a lot so I let him take Roca Labs Formula so eat will less or in smaller quantity every day.

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