Kidnapping: Next New Diet Fad!

For Immediate Release
July 15, 2011

Foster City, CA – Harvard Scientist, Dr. David Ludwig and his colleagues have
come up with a new way of dealing with our nation's Fat children… recommending
state sponsored kidnapping …take fat children away from their parents and
families ...effectively stripping away their civil rights in the hope they will
lose weight!

Dr. Ludwig should look more closely at history before making recommendations
that have not worked in the past! Anamarie Regino and her family are one such
case and know the horrors of such an action. Over a decade ago, Anamarie Regino,
three years old at the time was removed from her parents' custody and placed in
foster care for two months, only to be returned after no improvement occurred.
Anamarie was later diagnosed as having a genetic predisposition.

According to a recent JAMA article, approximately two million children fall into
the governmental intervention category. Two million children put into foster
care. Two million families ripped apart! Irreparable mental and emotional
damage done to an entire portion of the American population!

NAAFA challenges Dr. Ludwig and his colleagues at Harvard to take a HAES (Health
at Every Size) approach instead of suggesting such preposterous action that has
no track record of success. Focus on the positive not on the destructive!
Children are the future of our nation, build them up, do not tear them down!

The NAAFA Child Advocacy Toolkit is a resource for people involved in the lives
of children of size. It is intended to help educate and inform all segments of
society with regard to the effects of weight discrimination on children and
provides references and tools to combat these effects using a HAES (Health At
Every Size) approach. A link to an electronic version of this premier toolkit
is available on the front page of the NAAFA website at www.naafa.org

Founded in 1969, NAAFA is a non-profit civil rights organization dedicated to
improving the quality of life for fat people. NAAFA works to eliminate
discrimination based on body size and provide fat people with the tools for
self-empowerment through public education, advocacy, and member support.

On the web: http://www.naafa.org

For more information contact:
Peggy Howell, Public Relations Director, NAAFA
Email: pr@...