Hope Gardens
By Lucy Nicholson
Lilly Earp changes the diaper on her 5-week-old baby sister Emily with the confidence another child would have cradling a doll. She’s only 8, but she already shows the street smarts of an older child as she helps her mother. It helps to be resourceful when you’re homeless.
Her mother, Doreen Earp, 38, who is originally from Germany, and her three children ended up on the street after her relationship with Emily’s father fell apart. They stayed in a hotel for a month, then with people from their church and eventually ended up with no roof over their heads.
Today, they’re lucky to be among the 150 or so other homeless women and children living at Hope Gardens on the outskirts of LA. It’s a place where those at the end of the line are given a life line. The shelter for families is an oasis compared to where most of LA’s massive street population lives on a grim patch of downtown’s Skid Row. While homeless services are concentrated downtown, it’s no place for a child.
Choosing surgery for weight loss
Obesity.
Just the word is ugly. Morbid obesity sounds even worse, the clinical term for someone with a body mass index of 40 or higher. Morbidly obese usually means someone is at least 100 pounds over their suggested normal weight.
With all the media attention on the topic the word obesity by itself might conjure up images of giant sized people waddling down the sidewalk, pulling into a handicapped parking spot or riding electric carts that have popped up at almost any major store. You might pray you don’t get seated next to “one of them” on a train or an airplane.
The media inevitably run video or photos of giant people shot from behind to go with the latest story on obesity. Is it because they are protecting the person’s privacy or is it just to emphasize how big they are?
You might be thinking “Wow, there goes another one, glad it’s not me.” “What in the world does that person eat to get that big?” “Why don’t they just go to the gym?” “Such a shame for someone so young, good looking too, if he/she lost about 100 pounds they would look great!”
Yes, most of the American are overweight. Due to poor eating habits it can happen to anyone. To make improvement in the eating habit is the first step which can help to reduce the weight. Avoid junk food, drink plenty of water, do practice daily exercise are some of the natural ways to lose the weight.
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@onthelake – You will keep a cat alive to the tune of @1000.00 and wonder why a mother would cling to her child? It also isn’t at all clear whether any of these women actually ever had husbands or even stable relationships. I suspect most didn’t.
And I more or less agree with eduardo1418 – the government has been using wars for generations to flush surplus males – I’m almost convinced.