The variability of people and the complexity of factors that cause a person to seek help with fatness means that there can be no standard set of rules. You have to make a fresh ethical decision with each new request for help, often even within the handling of one client. Frequently, these decisions need to [...]

Typical big eaters are:

• teenagers and young adults,

• people working as labourers,

• people doing regular strenuous exercise.

Big eaters need to eat:

• at least 8 slices of bread or the equivalent (crackers, rolls, muffins)

PLUS

• 3 pieces of fruit or the equivalent (juice, dried fruit) PLUS

• at least 2 cups of high carbohydrate vegetables (corn, legumes, potato, [...]