DASHAN, China – The desperate parents of a severely overweight 3-year-old boy said they cannot make the giant toddler diet because they are scared of him, The Sun reported Wednesday.
Lu Hao, from China, weighs 132 pounds, which is five times as heavy as other boys his age.
Ironically, when Lu Hao was born he was underweight, at 5.7 pounds, but he started putting on at 3 months old and has not stopped.
Dr. Ari Brown, Texas-based pediatrician and author of the Expecting 411 book series, told FoxNews.com that Lu Hao’s below-average birth weight may have contributed to his current weight.
“Babies who gain excessive weight in infancy are at risk for later in life. That sometimes occurs when a baby starts out smaller than average and rapidly gains more weight beyond what doctors would expect for ‘catch-up growth,’” Brown said.
He is getting so big that his parents are frightened of him — and they claim the youngster throws vicious tantrums if they try to stop him from gorging on huge plates of ribs and rice. They claim that although they try to cut his meals, he has gained 21 pounds in the last year.
"We have to let him be, as if we don't feed him, he will cry nonstop," his mother Chen Huan, from Dashan, in Guangdong Province, said.
