There is currently special on Primetime about the mobidly obese! Do you blame their caregivers & loved ones?

The morbidly obese on the show, explained that they can't get out of bed, walk to the kitchen, or leave their homes. This means someone is BRINGING them all the fast food and calories they admit to consuming daily. I'm sorry, but if this is the case, their caregives and loved one's are enablers.

Primetime Special - Medical Mystery: Morbid Obesity

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=27...

The care givers are to blame because these people are bound to their bed. They can't get out to the store and can't even get out of the bed to go to the kitchen.Their caregivers need backbone! They need to say "NO!" I fully agree that the caregivers are enablers. Even more than that they should be held accountable! I know that the person ate to much to begin with but they had help becoming so big that they can't leave their bed!

That is true, the parents/guardiens are to blame. Ther gave them fatty food as a kid and "told" them that this food is OK to eat all the time.

Jackmac :P~

yes you are right.they are enablers.

I think it is the responsibility of both the parent/guardian and the child to make sure that healthy foods are being consumed along with a nutritional diet that isn't too much for the child or too little for the adult. There shoudl be a consensus made and the parent should know that feeding their child too many fatty foods would cause the child to become obese. The child should know that if they are proned to a "fat" gene, they should choose their meals more carefully.

Are the obese people in question here mentally challenged? Have they been declared incompetent by a physician? If not, then no one can be held responsible for their actions beside themselves, unless they are children. Many obese people have medical conditions that directly and indirectly cause obesity, or take medications for other conditions that causes weight gain..it's not always a food intake matter that made them obese to begin with...and it only makes sense that a larger person would have a larger appetite. Getting to the root of the problem that caused the initial weight gain's the solution.

i agree. they must be blamed.

Yep your a part of what your given. Children learn from there parents and enviroment.......... it's just like a drug addiction to these people.... food is the addicition though... it's sad really sad!!