OPINION:
The mother of a British teen who went legally blind after eating a junk-food diet of only potato chips, french fries and the like for over a decade (resulting in a vitamin A deficiency) blames the British government and its health care system for her son’s illness (“U.K. boy blinded by bad eating is product of bad parenting,” Web, Sept. 3). The boy ate virtually no fruits or vegetables.
I have a strong disdain for people who blame others rather than themselves for their problems.
The mother is rather obese, so her son’s poor diet could be the result of heredity or the mother’s own poor eating habits, which have carried over to her son. Every mother should know that her children ought to eat a well-balanced diet. This boy’s mother even admitted that her son had showed symptoms of an eating disorder since the age of 2, but she did nothing to combat it.
KENNETH L. ZIMMERMAN
Huntington Beach, Calif.
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