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Suffer the children who don’t fit the mold
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/074a27f7-8c8d-40d7-b7c0-325bf8105d57/4671A1B6-7F47-4754-893C-F9A328D74CB8/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://junkfoodscience.blogspot.com/2007/07/suffer-children-who-dont-fit-mold.html" href="http://junkfoodscience.blogspot.com/2007/07/suffer-children-who-dont-fit-mold.html" style="font-size: 11px;">junkfoodscience.blogspot.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://junkfoodscience.blogspot.com/2007/07/suffer-children-who-dont-fit-mold.html"><P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN>Imagine having a daughter with a rare condition that is poorly understood and health authorities seem disinterested in helping to diagnose. It’s not that girls and boys just like your daughter haven’t been seen throughout history, but today she’s mocked and viewed as a freak and everyone is pointing the blame at you — so much so, that government officials have taken your daughter away and made her a ward of the state.<O:P _moz-userdefined=""></O:P></SPAN></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://junkfoodscience.blogspot.com/2007/07/suffer-children-who-dont-fit-mold.html"><P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN>An incredible story from </SPAN><ST1:COUNTRY-REGION _moz-userdefined=""><ST1:PLACE _moz-userdefined=""><SPAN>Britain</SPAN></ST1:PLACE></ST1:COUNTRY-REGION><SPAN> describes an eight-year old girl in </SPAN><ST1:PLACE _moz-userdefined=""><SPAN>West Cumbria</SPAN></ST1:PLACE><SPAN> removed from her home. Her transgression? She stands nearly a foot taller than other children her age — 5 feet! — and wears clothes six sizes larger.<O:P _moz-userdefined=""></O:P></SPAN></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://junkfoodscience.blogspot.com/2007/07/suffer-children-who-dont-fit-mold.html"><P class="MsoNormal">“Overeating” might make a child a few pounds larger than they were genetically meant to be, but not significantly taller. And as medical professionals know, <I>it’s biologically impossible for food alone to make a young 8-year old child an extraordinarily foot taller than her peers.</I></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/4671A1B6-7F47-4754-893C-F9A328D74CB8/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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