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• Dad Shackles Overweight Daughter to Bed to Stop Her Eating

  It started with chains and locks on the cabinet doors of the family home to keep his daughter away from the food. When Robert Blue found his fifteen-year-old was getting past them, police say he decided to chain the girl to her bed and beat her with a stick. The problem? The teen was twenty pounds over the weight her father thought appropriate. Theres's no excuse for it, but the extreme methodology to make a child lose weight may not be that uncommon. Read More... Posted Jan 22 2009, 12:33 PM by JeanneSager with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: food, obesity, childhood obesity, child abuse, abuse, overweight teens, Jeanne Sager, neglect, eating disorder, malnutrition

• Unpopular and Fat: A Scientific Fact

  Which came first, the social isolation or the excess pounds? A new study looking to, I don't know, dredge up the deeply buried insecurities of grown women and/or convince parents to homeschool their kids has found that the less popular a girl perceives herself to be the more weight she'll gain during the teenage years. Conjuring images, no doubt, of the lonely sophomore eating a pint of ice-cream in a darkened kitchen while her cellphone never rings. Ugh! Read More... Posted Jan 08 2008, 01:43 PM by Madeline Holler with | with no comments Filed under: research study, teens, middle school, diet, weightloss, weight loss, popularity, weight, overweight children, diet and exercise, mean people, weight gain, isolation, overweight teens