Daily Q August 4: Childhood Obesity

Lindenhurst Patch wants to know what local residents feel about everything from today’s important issues to the not so important. So Patch will ask Lindy residents to in this about a hot topic of the day.

Today’s question:

Recently there was a thought-provoking commentary in the Journal of the American Medical Association by Dr. David Ludwig, an obesity specialist at Harvard-affiliated Children's Hospital Boston, Ludwig, and Lindsey Murtagh, a lawyer and a researcher at Harvard's School of Public Health, which suggested that putting children temporarily in foster care is, in some cases, more ethical than obesity surgery.

So Patch was wondering:

• Should parents lose custody of super-obese children to the state for not controlling their kids’ weight? Why or why not?