As someone who is poor, I can 100% say that my parents STILL made sure they fed us healthy food. I personally blame the parents COMPLETELY.

As a parent, this stuff makes me FURIOUS. Because no kid comes out of the womb asking for soda and junk food. Introducing that crap is a choice those parents made.

And reducing junk food and brushing teeth are like, bare minimum parenting standards. You know that if they can't manage that, those families aren't reading to their kids, or showing up to school conferences, or giving them the fun, enriching experiences that make childhood a lot more fun than dental surgery and a sugar crash.

That Romanian dad just doesn’t wanna give up eating the food that he loves so he’d rather subject his daughter do a dangerous life-threatening surgery.

these parents are passing their EDs on to their children and feeling relief/validation in the process. scary stuff

Custard doesn't cause obesity like crack doesn't cause addiction...it's not guaranteed, but the odds aren't good

These parents are causing their children to struggle needlessly.  It's maddening.

So, they blamed the school for the child’s weight gain, but the school is enlisting them in counseling to manage weight? Seems legit.

Oh my gosh this makes me so mad. It's the parents. Having been an obese child of an immigrant parent who also became obese, it is the parents who are the number one influence/cause of a child's health. It's lack of nutrition information, the "scarcity" mindset, and newly immigrant parents not having the mental or physical capacity to handle the challenging balance of providing proper nutrition to promote a healthy lifestyle for yourself and your children. It wasn't a priority for them. They were just trying to survive. It wasn't until I was a full fledged adult that I was finally educated and had the self responsibility to change the direction of my health. And bringing my parents into that health change is CHALLENGING.

It’s way cheaper to cook your own food than to get take out everyday.

As a moroccan we have amazing food that's healthy. Why would she give her greasy fish and chips when our gastronmy is known for how good it is

8:14 People confuse "last resort" with "quick and relatively effective when you're too lazy to get off the couch." God, these parents make me so angry. I have type 1 diabetes (an autoimmune disease not related to lifestyle), and my parents changed not only their diet for me, but also their lifestyle.

I grew up in poor Britain. We couldn’t afford takeaways. We had home cooked meals every day. Even if it was just beans on toast 😂. it’s the parents not taking accountability. And kids are inside on their phones instead of running around the neighbourhood.

57:10 I feel like this is common. parents don’t want to take responsibility whatsoever. My family bullied me instead of helping and it led me to having pre-diabetes, fatty liver, malnutrition from diets at 15.

I did lose weight and still on the weight loss journey but I did it myself. It’s sad that adults just want children to deal with it by themselves.

Honestly, as someone who has always been thin, my main thing is not having treats in the house. If they are there, I’ll eat them so I just don’t have them there

I love that you stated that, YOU HAVE AMAZING TEETH SIR!

Some people don’t deserve to be parents. Watching them intentionally avoid healthy food just to satisfy their laziness or the child’s desires is frustrating. And don’t get me started about their thoughts on “expensive” healthy food. Rice, beans, eggs, etc cost a lot less than hospital visits and medicines.  They need to take cooking lessons, parenting lessons - all free on YouTube - and stop bringing garbage food home!

Ughh these make me so sad! I am far from a perfect parent, but this is extreme neglect and these parents are in denial.

I have a toddler and if he were overweight, the speed at which I would change my entire life to help him would make these parents dizzy.
This is so frustrating to watch. Why is an overweight child getting permanent weight loss surgery? Why aren’t the parents just changing their food and lifestyle?? This whole “if I don’t give them this they don’t eat or they are too loud”…..excuse me!? Lazy parenting. Selfish parenting. Neglectful parenting. If my son doesn’t eat that much at lunch, oh well I guess he’ll eat a lot at dinner.

You can take steps to make your child try and like new foods. Low cal, high protein sauces, pair it with something they do like, make it a game, cut into fun shapes….you just need to care and put in some effort. My son loves “ranch” that I make with just seasoning and Greek yogurt. He loves “ketchup” but that’s completed unsweetened. He is 18 months old and has had refined sugar 2 times. His first birthday and when he grabbed a cookie off a table at a holiday party because it was colorful (I took it from him after he got a bite, man toddlers have the fastest hands known to man).

That poor girl, she didnt want the surgery,  and her family couldn't change their food ways 😢 to make sure she didnt go under the knife!  And they think the knife is best 😢😢😢😢😢😢

My Mexican dad was kinda like Denisa’s dad. Yep he did get diabetes