Lonely lives of Britain's obese teens: some haven't set foot outside home for NINE years

fbonnito- r u on drugs? Are you saying that every fatty has been a victim of child abuse? Some parents should be charged on some neglect charges for how they educate/feed/raise their kids but to say all are victims of abuse is ludicrous!!!
Some fatties love to feed their faces in front of the tv and not do an ounce of exercise, this is their own personal choice, not some product of abuse.
Who is paying for all this medical treatment? Who is paying for the builders to demolish and re-build the house to get her out? Who is paying all her disability payments?
All of the hard working tax payers in this country thats who, this country is ****** up big time!!!!

No one gets to have a problem with excessive weight without having suffered child abuse..probably her mother suffered aswell...if only evil men would vanish..

Just been reading everyone's comments, this young woman is 19 years old and has obviously had years to develop the bad habits of seriously overeating, I remember seeing this on the news and yes I do feel sorry for her, with my first thought being that she needs to move away from her parents, and that she needs help and support to deal with the complex issues related to food which in reality is probably closer to alcoholism than anything else, if she loses the weight then good on her, but please remember she is not with her parents she is in hospital, and if she does go home after all the treatment she receives then potentially she may spiral back out of control, it is not simple, her self esteem will be so low, and this will be a battle that she will have to cope with for the rest of her life. And due to our 24hr news culture she has to cope with the publicity now and in the future - her life is not her own. She does need help especially therapy, and I wish her luck in the trials that life throws at her.

Why is it that none of these "comfort eaters," never, ever ,think about "comfort dieting, " ?

When I think of all the poor people over the centuries in this country and others, who have starved to death through no fault of their own, it beggars belief people should feel 'sympathy' for obese gluttons. Georgia Davis shoud be done for benefit fraud, if she was allegedly claiming carer's allowance for her parents. I do NOT feel sorry for obese lard arse kids, whose parents have to drive their darlings 100m to school, in case a drop of rain falls on them. I feel sorry for kids with cancer, who have problems through no fault of their own.

am I supposed to feel sorry for these fat people who can't control themselves? I would love to sit on my fat arse all day and eat junk food, but I'm a better person than that. And as for being afraid of being bullied? Everyone and their mum gets bullied, I myself endured it through most of high school. If they don't want to be bullied than they should do something about being a fat pig..

I know what it's like to be overweight and miserable and even though my problems started when I was around 6 years old I am still conscious that it was my decision to remain obese when I became old enough to decide what and how I would eat. I remember a few years ago manufacurers being blasted for intentially putting attictive ingredients into their foods to get their consumers hooked and eating some foods can be addictive as drugs or smoking... the thing is you can quit drugs or smoking cold-turkey but you still need to eat everyday so i'm guessing it would be like trying to quit smoking whilst being around other people who smoke constantly. I know it's hard to control you eating when you're in that downward spiral but what really ticks me off is that this girl was given so much help and went out of her way to ignore it, I would have grabbed at the opportunity to get that help eg being sent to an american camp etc but she just ignored the help and kept getting bigger. she finally looses weight and then the NHS want to give her surgery so she's not even following a healthy eating plan. In a way she the reason overweight people have this stereotype of being lazy and selfish. I know how hard it is to loose weight but I did it so it clearly can be done by others.

CHILD ABUSE

I see we are recycling our news ,how environmentaly friendly

why does society constantly think that all over weight people are so ecause tey stuff their faces. the whole media has playued a uge part on this ignorant attitude. not every one you see that is over weight is so y the way the eat, some people have very healthy and active life styles but still struggle to keep to wat is felt normal weight and until scientists have made up their minds about why this happens society needs to get the fact right,this young woman is one of th many that do get to a dangerous size through over eating and having read te storis and seen this young woman;s programe a few yrs ago se had no cance, once she returned form the American fat camp as it's known, er family did nothing to support her so once again se was caugt up in this horrid spiral of comfort eating to fit te way she felt, we all go out of our way to help Anoresxia sufferers and ulimics it's the same thing an eating disorder only instead of loosing weigt you gain it, i just get fed up wit narrow minded ness about over weight folks