Critic Piece on The Telegraph's 'If your child is fat then you are a bad parent'
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/11985974/If-your-child-is-fat-then-you-are-a-bad-parent.html Dear Ms. Brewer, I recently came upon your article, ‘If your child is fat then you are a bad parent.’ I am writing to outline major flaws in your writing, including your tone, false accusations and the impractical solution you give to solve this problem. It is hard to be believe such a biased piece was published on the well known THE TELEGRAPH. Firstly, you claim that, ‘parents are 100 per cent to blame,’ for raising an overweight child, which is incorrect. It is often that natural problems such as: genetic disorders, puberty and normal hormone imbalances can be the root of obesity in children. These causes are out of parent’s control; hence they cannot be blamed for it. Further on, parents do not tend to ‘force feed,’ their children. It is not sensible to think anyone can be forced fed beyond their capacity unless parents shove food down their children’s throats,...