Fat children - the new form of child abuse?

Childhood Obesity if getting to epidemic proportions. Should we take children away from their parents if they are obese? Leave your thoughts in the comments section.

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AS MANY as 74 children in Britain have reportedly been put into care in the last five years because they are morbidly obese.
Figures revealed that 183 youngsters under 11 in England, Scotland and Wales have been recorded as weighing more than 100kg in the last three years.
Eight children were more than 127kg and the heaviest weighed 147kg, the Daily Mirror reported.
The two heaviest primary school pupils in England were a boy of 147kg and a girl of 140kg.
There has been a 12 per cent rise in the number of under-16s in Britain admitted to hospital for obesity in the last year, figures released by the Health and Social Care Information Centre this week show.
Health experts called the figures a "national tragedy".
Across all ages, obesity admissions across England were lower for every age group except the under-16s and those 65 and over.
Using Freedom of Information laws, the newspaper approached the 206 local authorities in Britain with responsibility for child protection.
Of the 128 councils that provided usable responses it was found that between 26 and 46 morbidly obese children were taken by social services; when taking the potential figure from the remaining councils, the figure could be as many as 74, the Mirror said.
Social services removed the children from their families for their protection because their excessive weight caused major health concerns.
"This is not an issue about children who might be a few pounds overweight," a Department for Education spokesperson said.
"This is about protecting those facing significant and possibly even flife-threatening problems."