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Doctors in Colombia have put a 40 pound, 8-month-old baby boy on a strict diet. Baby Santiago from Codazzi, Columbia was born with a normal weight but has grown to over 40 pounds in the last seven months. He was born weighing seven pounds and four ounces and now is a heaping 41 pounds.
The obese child’s parents say that he started gaining extra weight when he was only one-month-old. He is nursed by his mother over 20 times a day because he feels hungry, however due to his great size he cannot stand or crawl.
Doctors have not found anything medically wrong with the child, he has simply been overfed. The goal of these doctors is to try to reduce the child’s weight down to about 17 pounds. They have stepped in and are taking
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