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Whether you agree with it or not, kids have already started being taken from their homes for being too overweight. Ludwig says the idea for state intervention in obesity cases came to him when he met a 90-pound 3-year-old whose parents were poor, disabled, and unable to control her weight. By the time she was 12, she weighed 400 pounds and had developed diabetes, at which point the Massachusetts Department of Protective and Family Services intervened and removed her from her home. Within a year of government care, she’d lost 130 pounds and her diabetes was gone. She’s still obese, says Ludwig, but she’s getting better all the time, which is why she remains in government care.

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