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Tuesday, June 13, 2006
Losing weight, gaining weight
Two stories: one has pathos; the other is the most disturbing I've read since I started blogging. (I'm a cynical dog who isn't disturbed much, by and by.)
First, the pathos:
Fine world we live in.
First, the pathos:
A Colaba couple who didn’t want their extra pounds to embarrass their only son underwent a gastric bypass operation to lose weight yesterday.And the other story:
Prakash Sharma (33) and wife Renu (30), the doting parents of Paresh (2), were mortified that his friends might tease him if they remained obese after he grew up.
A girl of 13 deliberately made herself fat to end years of abuse by a bullying paedophile, a court heard yesterday.So for three years, every time this girl sat down at a meal, she ... ate.
Vile Mark Borthwick, 39, had preyed on the tormented youngster for three years from when she was ten.
She decided the only way to end the “systematic and vile” abuse was by over-eating to make herself less attractive to him.
Fine world we live in.
