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‘Your children are too fat. Either they lose weight or we’ll take them away’
A COUPLE have been told their children must lose weight – or they could be taken into care. Social workers warned the parents they have only three months to help three of their six children shed the pounds.
They want to see an improvement by June in the 12-year-old boy, who weighs 16 stone, and two of his sisters, aged 11 and three, who weigh 12st and 4st respectively.
The family, from Dundee, have been ordered to send their children to dance and football lessons to help them lose weight.
Another couple from the city are facing the same fate over concerns their only child is obese.
The development highlights Scotland’s childhood obesity crisis, which has already forced some as young as 13 to seek NHS weight-loss surgery. Only the United States has more overweight children, underlining fears that our current generation of youngsters may not outlive their parents.
