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Toddler Weighs 55 Pounds At 15 Months
WKMG Orlando ^ | June 1, 2004

Posted on 06/01/2004 2:44:47 PM PDT by Shermy

A 15-month-old child in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia weighs 55 pounds and is gaining nearly 5 pounds a month, according to a Local 6 News report.

Luka Meliksishvili has been rapidly gaining weight since his birth, according to his parents. He already carries the weight of a 6-year-old child, Local 6 News reported Monday night.

Luka's mother, Eka Meliksishvili, said doctors in Tbilisi have examined her son and advised her not to be too concerned. They said Luka may be able to shed his excess weight as he grows older.

Watch Local 6 News for more on the story.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: childhoodobesity; chubs; macattack
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More pics and video at link.

1 posted on 06/01/2004 2:44:47 PM PDT by Shermy
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To: Kenny Bunk; Dog; swarthyguy; jennyp; okie01; MizSterious; Battle Axe; mhking; aculeus; ...

Big ping.


2 posted on 06/01/2004 2:46:00 PM PDT by Shermy
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To: Shermy

Future Olympic weightlifter..


3 posted on 06/01/2004 2:46:37 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty
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To: Shermy

The next WWE Champion..


5 posted on 06/01/2004 2:48:17 PM PDT by Dog (In Memory of Pat Tillman ---- ---- ---- American Hero.)
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To: Shermy

the plague.


6 posted on 06/01/2004 2:48:48 PM PDT by kinghorse
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To: Shermy

The poor little kid.

FoxNews showed a brief video. The mother was shoveling food into the kid's mouth. Unless the child has some medical condition (and the reports said he didn't), then the problem is 'enabler' parent(s).


7 posted on 06/01/2004 2:49:23 PM PDT by TomGuy (Clintonites have such good hind-sight because they had their heads up their hind-ends 8 years.)
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To: Shermy

My "little" bro weighed 40 lbs. at 12 months. Fell on my two pet pigeons. They died in each other's wings...


8 posted on 06/01/2004 2:50:21 PM PDT by Mr Ducklips
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To: Shermy; Lion in Winter; Destro; Honorary Serb; RussianConservative; vooch; captain albala; ...

Anyone know how to say "Atkins' Diet" in Georgian?


9 posted on 06/01/2004 2:50:43 PM PDT by FormerLib (It's the 99% of Mohammedans that make the other 1% look bad.)
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Ouchie Ouchie Ouchie PING !

So9

10 posted on 06/01/2004 2:51:46 PM PDT by Servant of the 9 (Screwing the Inscrutable or is it Scruting the Inscrewable?)
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To: Shermy

Soon to be on a supermarket tabloid cover near you!


12 posted on 06/01/2004 2:53:15 PM PDT by Yo-Yo
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To: Shermy

Atkins gone bad????


13 posted on 06/01/2004 2:55:42 PM PDT by mn-bush-man
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To: Mr Ducklips

Well, we moved from Indian Country to New Yawk in '67. The culture shock was plenty; but the pizza and pastrami were plenty good. I miss those, too - but not much else.


14 posted on 06/01/2004 2:57:06 PM PDT by Mr Ducklips
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To: FormerLib
In Georgia, as well as most of the South, I believe it would have been considered a misdemeanor at the very least, should one eat while Chet was performing....

:~)

15 posted on 06/01/2004 2:57:16 PM PDT by ErnBatavia (Democrats assume Republicans lie as much as they do.)
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To: Mr Ducklips

Whoops. Wrong thread.


16 posted on 06/01/2004 2:58:03 PM PDT by Mr Ducklips
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To: TomGuy

17 posted on 06/01/2004 3:00:35 PM PDT by Shermy
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To: Mr Ducklips
Nonsense. Pizza and pastrami go with everything.
18 posted on 06/01/2004 3:01:53 PM PDT by prion
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To: Shermy
First thing that comes to mind is Prader-Willi Syndrome.

Children with this have no hunger control...in the sense that they always feel ravenously hungry. Early on, this comes as a relief, since for the first few months, they tend to have a very weak suckling reflex.

Until the 1980s, almost none of the children with this lived through their pre-teens much less through their delayed puberty.

19 posted on 06/01/2004 3:01:59 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: prion

I think it's the sugar frosted Cherobyl Flakes this kid is eating.


20 posted on 06/01/2004 3:07:23 PM PDT by Wally_Kalbacken
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