BOSTON (Reuters)-Boston pediatrician David Ludwig, the center of a firestorm media this week to the record directly on his view that a State should intervene in the most extreme cases of child obesity.
Louis and co-author Lindsey Murtagh on the triggered a backlash with a guest article in a leading U.S. medical journal about what could be done Harvard School of public health of severely obese adolescents.
They argued that as all other efforts, a State should not high risk obese children in foster homes, and said do this more ethical choice, which could avert drastic measures such as weight loss surgery.
Ludwig, Boston's children's Hospital, has since then on dozens of E-mails of this week angry and scared parents respond. Other medical experts have the functionality an otherwise functional and supportive family to remove a child element, if they are obese in question provided.
In his first interview since the beginning of the backlash said in the article meant was, to a dialogue on obesity in children, to promote, has become a life-threatening problem for many young people.
"It is absolutely understandable that if anyone heard with an obese child, the Government could take away to blow and the child, (it would) be terrified and outraged," Ludwig of told of Reuters. "I would like to stress that foster families should be only the last resort when all other options have failed."
In his answers to parents Ludwig delivered copies of his play opinion, this week in the journal of the American Medical Association, which says there is a role for the State when it comes to the hummocky is to help children, but distance from a home very rarely published the solution.
"It just was heartbreaking to see how the history of some of the media, causing pain and suffering for the people, wild exaggerated much been", Ludwig said.
The "main threat, which is available on this generation of children," can the children at the highest risk, obesity around 2 million and with, at least 20 million overweight and obese children in the United States said it.
But by young people in foster families, "absolutely not an option should be" for most of the highest risk cases.
And this is what wrote Ludwig and Murtagh in the piece, he said. To his point of view, prove and soothe the anger that has broken out, JAMA frees up the full text of the piece at the disposal of the public for a week: http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/306/2/206.full
Ludwig said that government intervention could include financial support for families, social services, access to safe recreational areas and even parent courses to manage a child's uncontrolled eating habits.
In 99 per cent of the most serious cases is a child of a House remove not an option. Ludwig said that where parents of the child was taken over 15 years of the treatment of some 10,000 patients fight against obesity, he knows only from a case.
"The ultimate answer to the obesity epidemic not blame parents, it is a healthy and to create supportive society", Ludwig said.
"But until we get there, what are we doing about this 14-year-old, 400 pounds (182 kg) child, which is 20 years increased risk of disease do not, but who is confronted today life-threatening complications?" he said.
(Reporting by Lauren Keiper;) (Editing by Michele Gershberg and Ros Krasny)
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