Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Obesity Is Not A Cosmetic Problem

I recently saw a programme on TV. It was a talk-show with Tyra Banks as the host. The unfortunate subject was an obese young teenage girl. That's being politically correct. She was FAT.

The issue? The young girl had a bad relationship with her mother and Tyra Banks was going to help them patch things up. All her life, the young girl said, she had been having a problem with her weight, and her mother was making things so hard for her.

As a child, her mother would restrict her food intake. Starving, she would be forced to raid the refrigerator at night just to satisfy her hunger. Things got worse when her mother resorted to padlocking the fridge at night. She had to eat different food from her siblings, who were all thin.

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