this girls parents should be shot.....

[James]

The counterpoint is, it doesn't make a difference what its like to raise such a child.

It only makse a difference on the actual food that you allow that child to eat.

Please concede the point that regardless how emotionally draining it is to have a child with a voracious appetite, whether nature or nurture, it still does not require the parent to put food in the child's mouth.

And it requires food ton get fat like that. Contrary to wishful thinking you can't get heavy like that by just absorbing weight from the air.

Originally Posted by blueangel

Unless you're in the parent's shoes, you have no idea what it's raising a child with PWS.

My point is that we shouldn't judge when we don't know all the facts. Perhaps the parents are at fault. WE DON'T KNOW!

[blueangel]

Originally Posted by James

The counterpoint is, it doesn't make a difference what its like to raise such a child.

It only makse a difference on the actual food that you allow that child to eat.

Please concede the point that regardless how emotionally draining it is to have a child with a voracious appetite, whether nature or nurture, it still does not require the parent to put food in the child's mouth.

And it requires food ton get fat like that. Contrary to wishful thinking you can't get heavy like that by just absorbing weight from the air.

Ah... but you missed the part about the extremely low calories a person with PW Syndrome must maintain in order to be a normal weight. James, please do try to keep up.

[James]

I don't understand your point. The child doesn't appear to have this disease.

Further, assuming some hypothetical child did have the disease. You adjust calories/activity until it doesn't gain weight.

Originally Posted by blueangel

Ah... but you missed the part about the extremely low calories a person with PW Syndrome must maintain in order to be a normal weight. James, please do try to keep up.

[AlexMack]

Well personally I blame Mcdonald's and the rest of the food industry for making their processed comestibules so delicious that she was unable to resist their allure.
I think they should be sued.

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by centaur532

Well personally I blame Mcdonald's and the rest of the food industry for making their processed comestibules so delicious that she was unable to resist their allure.
I think they should be sued.

Sue the cows for tasting so yummy when ground up and fried/grilled/put into a taco

[texas*princess]

Originally Posted by Drolefille

Sue the cows for tasting so yummy when ground up and fried/grilled/put into a taco

ROFLMAO

I love this statement.



I can't believe the parents allowed their daughter to weigh that much. Like someone else already said, not even full-grown adults should weigh that much. It's disgusting that these parents just sat back and gave their kid all that food.

I saw a story about her on TV and showed how she was confined to this air mattress because she couldn't walk or do anything... and while she was on the floor she was yelling to her mom: "Can you get me some popcorn?"

WTF!