Many parents worldwide are distraught over the prevailing condition of child obesity. With common sedentary lifestyles, poor dietary habits and lack of physical outdoor activity, more and more kids today suffer from poor health due to their unhealthy lifestyles. And it is even more stressful if you’re the parents of the fattest child in the world. It would be a daunting task, no doubt to manage a boy who at just 10 years old, weighs a massive 30 stone (192kg) and is morbidly obese.
10-year-old Arya Permana from Indonesia is the world’s fattest child, who suffers from a hormonal condition which surprisingly doctors are yet to diagnose. His obese weight if allowed to increase may well be fatal.
Just 10 Years Old But Morbidly Obese
Arya Permana is just 10 years old and lives in Cipurwasari, a village in West Java, Indonesia. His mother Rokayah Somantri is a housewife and his Father Adi Somantri is a farmer. Together the parents are absolutely alarmed and distraught over their son’s strange condition which has kept him virtually immobile to the point of being taken out of school. At 10 years old, he weighed a whopping 192 kg.
Arya’s obesity was the result of an appetite gone out of control reaching to five enormous meals a day. He is so fat that clothes don’t fit him. All that he wears is a sarong wrapped lightly around his waist. His parents, simple village folk have never had the remotest idea of what to do till today where they feel he simply has to stop eating.
You’ll Be Shocked at the Doctors’ Diagnosis
The parents realized that their son’s obesity may threaten his life. Before they could realize this, his weight and eating habits were surprisingly attributed to that of a healthy child, till it got worse. Although, he was born a normal 7 pound baby, it was at the age of two that his parents finally realized something was wrong. By the time he attained his present age of ten, he was eating enormous meals equivalent to two grown men and five times a day. It was when his weight rendered him almost immobile and his health showed signs of deterioration that his parents got a wakeup call and decided to get medical attention.
Shocking as it may seem, yet the most peculiar and absurd part of this whole episode was that doctors couldn’t find anything wrong with Arya. Indonesian doctors actually found a 10-year-old weighing 192 kg as NORMAL. This wasn’t just absurd, it was nonsensical and funny. But that was the reality; Arya’s parents had just been told by medical doctors, nothing was wrong with their child despite of the fact that he was becoming famous as the fattest child in the world.
His Health Deteriorated Further
Arya’s father wasn’t a rich man, he earned only $180 a month, yet doctors asked him to seek professional help and expert advice from specialists if the parents felt there was anything wrong. Now isn’t that something infuriating? Ultimately, it was left up to the parents to devise a strategy to decide what to do about Arya’s obesity, which was increasing.
Arya’s health deteriorated further where he suffered from palpitations and shortage of breath. He had developed the unusual urge to spend hours in a bathtub suggesting that he may have felt perennial warm possibly due to the metabolic heat generated from his body. He required continued assistance for his own physiological duties; he couldn’t walk and sat or lay down the entire day. It was suffering for the entire family. Arya’s father couldn’t cope financially with the burden placed on him for supplying his son, huge quantities of food. What were they to do?
Common Sense and Action Finally to Save This Boy’s Life
Finally, his parents soon realized if they didn’t act, the boy could die. Although, it was heartbreaking for the mother to deprive her son of food, they simply had to stop him from eating.
Arya has now been made to go on a stringent diet, where he is only given brown rice to eat. His parents, exhausted from their ordeal have no other option than to starve him as expert medical attention is beyond their financial means. Hopefully the strict diet will make this fattest boy in the world lose his title soon and slim down.
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