Pictured below are sisters Yogita Rameshbhai
Nandwana, five, and Anisha, three, and their 18-
month-old brother Harsh, and are among the
world's heaviest young children .These kids weigh
34kg, 48kg and 15kg respectively and the food
they eat in a week is enough to feed two families
in a month !!
Local doctors believe the children are suffering
from Prader-Willi syndrome, but do not know how
to treat it.The rare genetic condition causes
various symptoms including constant hunger,
reduced muscle tone, restricted growth and
learning difficulties.
Their father Rameshbhai Nandwana, 34, of
Gurjarat, India, is planning to sell his kidney to
earn the money needed to see top specialists. He
said:
"If my kids continue to grow at this rapid rate
they will have major health issues. We’re terrified
they will die.’Yogita and Anisha eat 18 chapatis,
3lbs of rice, two bowls of broth, six packets of
crisps, five packs of biscuits, 12 bananas and a
litre of milk daily."
And their extreme hunger means their mother
Pragna Ben, 30, spends most of her day making
their meals. She said:
‘My day starts with making 30 chapatis and 1kg
vegetable curry in the morning. After that I am
again in the kitchen preparing more food.Their
hunger never stops. They demand food all the
time and cry and scream if they’re not fed. I am
always in the kitchen cooking for them.’
The couple have one older daughter, Bhavika, six,
who weighs an average 2st 7lbs (16kg), and do
not know why their other three children are so
big.

Mr Nandwana earns just Rs 3000 (£35) a month
- but usually has sufficient money to buy enough
food to fulfil the large appetite of his children.He
said:
‘I am a daily wage labour and I usually get paid
Rs 100 a day but there are times when there is
no work at all.I work in fields, dig wells, and do
whatever menial job I can find to earn money.
And I’m constantly worried about finding the
money to feed my continually hungry children.If I
don’t have the money, I borrow it from my
brothers and friends. But I make sure I feed my
children when they need.’
The father has spent Rs 50,000 (£540) on seeing
doctors and treatment over the last three years –
without any improvement in his children’s
condition. He said:
‘No one in our family has a giant frame. Only my
children are overweight. As parents, it pains us
immensely to see them unable to move.They
cannot walk; they cannot do anything on their
own. Selling my kidney is a desperate
measure.But I’m now desperate to get the right
help for my children.’
Miss Ben cannot pick up her children so she has
to watch them roll around when her husband is
at work - or use a trolley to pull them around.She
said:
‘They need me to help them bath or when they
need the toilet. I’m only 40 kg so it’s impossible
for me to pick them up.It’s a struggle when my
husband is at work. They are usually restricted to
the same place for the whole day and because of
that, they cannot go to school.
'All they do all day is eat and play and giggle
with each other. I want my daughters to get an
education and play like other kids. I want them to
have a life. This is no life.’

Here is what their typical diet is like :

6am
Five bananas
One litre of milk
Six wheat chapatis
One bowl of vegetable broth
10am
Five wheat chapatis
One bowl of yoghurt
One bowl of vegetable broth
12.30pm
Millet chapatti - made of 3.3lbs millet flour
Two bananas
One bowl of vegetables
Four packets of crisps
3pm
Millet breads
Rice - 3lbs with vegetables
5pm
1 litre cold drink (Coca Cola or Pepsi)
Six packets of crisps
Five packs of biscuits
Five bananas
8pm
Six wheat chapatis
One litre of milk
behindermilk (1.5 litres)
Two big bowls of vegetables

agarawu23:
wtf!!!

these children should come to Nigeria and try drinking garri for 3 months and I am sure their parents will have a testimony to share

adanduka:
Help is here:
One word - Fasting

1dafullymade:
eeeyyyyaaa, ndo to ds family..did i her dat "they cry & scream if they ar not fed"? NAnsense! my granma wld say "crying doesn't kill",so u can cry all u want,buh dat which u ar crying for,u definitely won't get......so let their mama keep stuffing dem wt all manner, until d day they wil blow up in her face,dem she will know...

they "cry & scream" ni, they "wail & moan" ko.....if i hear.