My apologies if anyone thought I was being rude to Prince Charles. I just found his suggestion to not be addressing the problem at all. To ban McDonalds because of obesity would be like taking sugar off the shelves of supermarkets because of the increase in diabetes (which, by the way, goes hand in hand with obesity). The key is education, as others have said, and personal responsibility.

I just do not see why that child was not taken away from his mom at least for a time. There was a little girl recently in the news (maybe a year ago) with the same sort of problem only I believe she was younger (maybe age 3). She was temporarily removed from her home and her food was monitored although it did not help her. With controlled feeding her weight continued to rise so it was ruled some sort of medical condition. I think that boy should be given at least the same chance to be evaluated temporarily away from his mother. It could save his life. I just envision him becoming one of those 1,000 lb. people we often see on Discovery Health who are homebound and eating themselves into an early grave.