Monday, April 02, 2007
15st boy is taken from grandparents who lost their daughter to anorexia - Times of London
He was the apple of his grandparents’ eye, but under their loving care and continual feeding, ten-year-old Daniel reached 100kg (15st 10lb) in weight.
Fearing for the boy’s health, social workers in the northern Spanish region of Asturias stepped in, taking him to a hospital where he has been put on a diet.
The boy’s grandparents, Con-suelo GarcÍa and José Sánchez – who saw their daughter die of anorexia – have been distraught, unable to comprehend why their youngest grandchild has been taken away.
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Grandparents everywhere may be known for spoiling their grandchildren. But Spanish psychologists said that Daniel’s grandparents come from a generation that experienced terrible food shortages after the civil war, which ended in 1939. “For them, a chubby child is a healthy child, and the more he eats the better,” a health official said. ...
He was the apple of his grandparents’ eye, but under their loving care and continual feeding, ten-year-old Daniel reached 100kg (15st 10lb) in weight.
Fearing for the boy’s health, social workers in the northern Spanish region of Asturias stepped in, taking him to a hospital where he has been put on a diet.
The boy’s grandparents, Con-suelo GarcÍa and José Sánchez – who saw their daughter die of anorexia – have been distraught, unable to comprehend why their youngest grandchild has been taken away.
...
Grandparents everywhere may be known for spoiling their grandchildren. But Spanish psychologists said that Daniel’s grandparents come from a generation that experienced terrible food shortages after the civil war, which ended in 1939. “For them, a chubby child is a healthy child, and the more he eats the better,” a health official said. ...
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