‘Now I know what I can eat’

FOR Maeve Dempsey the worst thing about being obese was the name-calling.

‘Now I know what I can eat’

That was just five months ago when the 13-year-old from Mullingar, Co Westmeath, weighed over 14 stone and could only wear size 20 in clothes.

Dr Eva Orsmond, a doctor who specialises in treating obesity in children, said Maeve was “severely morbidly obese” when she first saw her last November.

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