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LeftishBrit

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10. I don't think you can totally blame the parents, in the case of a teenager

Reply to Mosby (Reply #6)

Mon Sep 9, 2019, 04:26 PM

Sep 2019

He would (in the UK) have had access to school meals; and by his mid-/late teens, could have bought food for himself.

The parents should have pushed harder to get medical help much earlier - if nothing else worked, intravenous feeding might even have been necessary; but I don't think it's just a matter of what was provided at home. He wasn't a toddler.

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Bristol (UK) teenager loses sight and hearing due to processed food diet [View all] Eugene Sep 2019 OP

Maybe his situation was more extreme than I can imagine, but I grew up in a home where hlthe2b Sep 2019 #1

Ha! Exactly. We weren't picky because... ret5hd Sep 2019 #2

We were not allowed to be picky, either. murielm99 Sep 2019 #3

Its good to get a balanced diet for sure sdfernando Sep 2019 #5

My parents were strict because murielm99 Sep 2019 #7

Sounds like you are a good parent /nt sdfernando Sep 2019 #8

Same here CDerekGo Sep 2019 #4

Child abuse Mosby Sep 2019 #6

I don't think you can totally blame the parents, in the case of a teenager LeftishBrit Sep 2019 #10

From what I understand, it wasn't just an ordinary 'junk food diet' LeftishBrit Sep 2019 #9