I'd also argue this for mentally retarded people (I mean retarded in the medical sense, not in the insult sense). I see so many people who live in care homes looking like total blimps. Somebody who can't string three words together obviously isn't deciding what they get to eat. How can you, as a caretaker either professional or just a parent, watch a mentally retarded person get 200 pounds overweight, and not think 'oh, I must be doing something wrong!' I've done volunteer work with disabled children in the past. The amount of these retarded children who were overweight or obese was staggering. The child I worked with often came in with some sort of sweet. If I had any say in the organization (which I didn't being a teenage volunteer), I'd have been at the very least handing out proper nutrition pamplets to the parents. Watching all those kids who already have enough health problems being burdened even further with excess weight sent my blood boiling.