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VICTORIAN welfare authorities have begun using extreme obesity as a reason to support children being separated from their parents - and experts predict more cases as the population gets fatter.

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The Department of Human Services has cited obesity in at least two child protection court cases this year.

One case involved a pre-teenage boy who weighed 110 kilograms and the other a teenage girl whose waist circumference of 169 centimetres was greater than her height. The department would not reveal the exact number of cases.

Associate Professor John Dixon, of the Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, said he expected more such cases, but that they would not become common.

''I would not want parents out there with overweight or obese children to in any way feel that it's through their negligence that we have a growing obesity issue in children today,'' Associate Professor Dixon said.

Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/is-this-child-abuse-the-courts-think-so-20120711-21wdb.html#ixzz20OG8z5jL
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