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Too heavy to pick up at 2 1/2? There's got to be some underlying mental or physical problem there, not just bad diet. Not that the parental attitude to nutrition has helped in any way....
I wonder if it's not just the parents but a regional attitude to diet?
I lived a little north of Newcastle for a year when I was a kid in the early 80s, and no-one there ate vegetables. They were for the southern yuppies in the cities. They were grown on the farms to be sold or fed to the animals, not eaten by us. My (one-parent, not overly functional) family adopted that culture, even though we had come from a more vegetable-friendly southern urban environment and we knew what a balanced diet was. It was a bit of a "yes we know we should do it, but nobody else is so that makes it OK" attitude.
The funniest bit is, my mother and her boyfriend were in a "vegetarian' phase. Which basically meant we ate chips and other forms of spuds, rice, pasta, eggs and cheese. What a fun diet.
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