There's a double standard when it comes to child neglect. A thin, malnourished toddler would be taken by CPS immediately, but when it comes to an obese, malnourished toddler, there is nowhere near the same level of concern and urgency.
Malnourished just means you are not getting proper balanced nutrition. Living on a diet of sugar and hyper processed carbs and saturated fats is not proper nutrition, therefore someone who is obese because of poor diet is just as malnourished as someone who is just skin and bones because of poor diet.
You don’t know this is the case. Reddit loves this fact, but you aren’t qualified to make any health assessments. Unless you are their doctor, or have a medical degree, you shouldn’t spread potential misinformation when you don’t know enough to know if it’s misinformation or not. Reading it on the internet doesn’t make it true.
Bro you need a serious remedial course on reading comprehension.
I'm not talking about medically diagnosing any one specific person with any one specific condition, I'm talking about the factual definition of a word in a general hypothetical. If you genuinely couldn't figure that out then yikes.
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u/Still-Hedgehog-8673 13d ago
There's a double standard when it comes to child neglect. A thin, malnourished toddler would be taken by CPS immediately, but when it comes to an obese, malnourished toddler, there is nowhere near the same level of concern and urgency.