Meet Juanita Valentina Hernandez, the
10-month-old who has
inexplicably ballooned to the same weight as an average
5-year-old — 44 pounds.
“To
all mothers that have babies like this, please take care of our children if we
don’t want them to get sick,” said her mother, Sandra Franco. “Now she is 10
months old and I have realized that she has morbid obesity.”
“When she was 15 days old she was already
looking chubby, because she was born very thin,” the worried mother added.
Franco
claims she has no idea how Juanita could have wound up so big.
Until
now, she had been unable to foot the bill to get her daughter help because of
her unemployment status. It wasn’t until a Colombian charity dubbed Chubby
Hearts accepted Juanita into their weight program that she was able to get the
treatment she truly needed.
“Thousands
of children in Colombia — and millions around the world — suffer with
obesity,” charity founder Salvador Palacio Gonzalez told Barcroft. “From
Colombia we have formed an international alliance to help people who are
overweight.”
Juanita
is the third baby Gonzalez has seen in the last year who weighs more than 40
pounds.
Source:nypost.com
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