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At 132lbs, Lu Hao is already five times the size of a normal child his age. The three-year-old toddler from China eats a staggering three bowls of rice when he sits down for a family meal.
 
When Lu Hao was born he weighed just 2.6kg (5.7 lbs), however, from the time he was three months old he began to gain weight rapidly. 'His appetite is so good that for a meal he can eat three big bowls of rice, even larger than I and his mother,' said Hao's father Lu Yuncheng.

Since Hao was one-year-old his parents have tried to keep a careful eye on his diet. However, Hao's mother Chen Yuan comments: 'We have to let him be as if we don't feed him he will cry non-stop'.

No matter how hard the family restricts Hao's diet and pushes him to move more the toddler has still managed to put on 10kg (22 lbs) in the past year. Now Chen Yuan is unable to pick her son up. 'In both of our families, there was no such giant person,' said father Yuncheng.
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Re: The 3-year-old who weighs a staggering 132lbs - and he's still growing! « Reply #1 Posted: 24 March 2011 at 02:30 PM »
He's probably got Prader Willi syndrome poor little thing I wonder if they have sought medical advise
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Re: The 3-year-old who weighs a staggering 132lbs - and he's still growing! « Reply #2 Posted: 24 March 2011 at 03:40 PM »
Thanks for that, funky.  When I read the article, I felt that there must be something wrong medically as that's well above "normal eating".  I took a quick look at the Prader-Willis Syndrome Association (UK) website - and it lists features of the condition - one being: "Obesity: caused by excessive appetite and overeating (hyperphagia)".
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Re: The 3-year-old who weighs a staggering 132lbs - and he's still growing! « Reply #3 Posted: 24 March 2011 at 06:14 PM »
Its a terrible problem because the child constantly feels hungry I think the brain doesnt switch correctly when they have eaten and the parents have a terrible job having to lock cupboards etc and constantly denying,  it can become a mental and physical battle  and very waring as the child gets bigger and bigger because they learn out to beg steal and borrow and obviously the older they get the less control the parents have  an unhappy situation for child and parents
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Re: The 3-year-old who weighs a staggering 132lbs - and he's still growing! « Reply #4 Posted: 24 March 2011 at 06:27 PM »
Willi ,Trigger dont be shy
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