It’s almost like a scene from a distopic novella: Authorities in Ohio last week determined that an overweight 8-year-old boy was simply too fat, so they took him away from his parents.
Officials told the Cleveland Heights family that they were not controlling his weight well enough. The boy was reportedly over 200 pounds, well into the “severely obese” category, according to Cleveland’s Plain Dealer newspaper.
That extra weight puts people at risk for diabetes, hypertension and other weight-related disorders, doctors say .... Read more at http://www.rawstory.com
