500-pound 13-year-old's family claim to be health food fanatics

The boy receives individual tuition at a school in Bydgoszcz in the north of Poland.

He lives with his mother and grandmother on the first floor. The family have placed a chair on the landing, so that he can take a rest while scaling the stairs.

The boy has 10 hours of school a week. He used to have lessons on nutrition, but his mother has asked for that to be dropped.

While teachers claim he is frequently seen eating chocolate and chips, his grandmother claims to be making every effort to ensure his diet is healthy.

“He weighs a lot and we don’t know why,” she says. “I run around the shops to buy healthy food. Doctors can’t help him and we do what we can.” (an)

Source: Gazeta Wyborcza