Senin, 25 Juli 2011

Overweight children of parents should meet: US doctors (AFP)

argumentierten the Government should the right strongly overweight children from their parents at home, remove and place them in foster homes, two U.S. doctors in a controversial editorial.


"State intervention of child welfare consists of many children with life-threatening obesity, the only realistic way can be used to control the harmful behaviors", wrote Lindsey Murtagh of the Harvard School of public health and David Ludwig Childrens Hospital in Boston.


"In severe cases of obesity in children is removed from the home in legal terms may be chronic failure justified due to the impending health risks and the parents to solve medical problems."


Approximately two million children in the United States with a body-mass index at or above the 99 percentile are heavily overweight, wrote the doctors.


"Obesity of this magnitude instant and potentially irreversible consequences, particularly type 2 diabetes can cause", she said.


Child abuse laws have long situations treated, starved to death for the child or neglected, but "only a handful of the States of California, Indiana, Iowa, New Mexico, New York, Pennsylvania, and Texas, legal precedent for the application of this framework on Overnourishment and severe obesity."


Murtagh, also a lawyer by training and Ludwig said, while it may be an undesirable option, can place a child in temporary foster families better habits take root and avoid the risks of weight loss surgery.


Although the removal of the child from the family home may result in great emotional pain, this option "is omitted the physical risks of bariatric surgery."


Opinion piece in the journal of the American Medical Association waves in the medical community and US media, and a statement that out, that the piece not the institution view JAMA were made.


"This comment not reflects policy or opinion of the American Medical Association (AMA) or JAMA." The contents of this commentary are solely in the responsibility of the authors, "he said."


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