Dr Max Pemberton: The NHS psychiatrist on autism diagnosis creep, treating food influencers with eating disorder, why childhood obesity is a type of child abuse

Children who are obese are as much a victim of neglect and child abuse as underweight and underfed children.

That's the shocking view Dr Max Pemberton, a medical doctor and psychiatrist who spent more than a decade running National Health Service clinics treating patients with severe eating disorders and addictions, shares with Unfiltered editor-in-chief Joe Warner.

While many people would have no argument that an underweight child is suffering from neglect and child abuse - surely the fundamental first rule of parenthood is to provide shelter, safety and sustenance to your child - the claim that an obese child is suffering from an equivalent level of abuse is far too outrageous a statement for many to stomach - especially today when childhood obesity is such a white-hot issue and divisive subject, and the body positivity movement, in ...