Mother of Triplets, Leanne SaltI hope that due to the publicity of the story by James Tozer this morning on www.dailymail.co.uk about British mother of triplets, Leanne Salt, that nutritional advisors might be able to persuade her to adopt healthier eating habits for her and her babies. The path they are headed down now certainly shocked and worried me upon reading the story.

Leanne, a 24-year-old, weighed 560 pounds (40 stone) at the time she gave birth to her triplets; daughters Deanna and Daisy, and son Finlee, last August. When they were born, it took a team of 68 medical professionals and a specially-built operating table for the C-Section procedure; resulting in a hospital bill of $292,000 (around £200,000). She now weighs 420 pounds (30 stone) and just revealed that she feeds the children junk food, like fish and chips and McDonald's meals. In Tozer's piece, she admits, "They were six months old when they had their first McDonald's. They had chicken nuggets and chips and loved it." Then went onto say, "They like fish and chips too, but I take the batter off the fish, so I guess that's healthy."

Babies at their age should eat around 765 calories a day, but according to Salt, the babies consume approximately 1,249 calories a day, nearly double the recommended amount. She says, "I feed my babies vegetables every Sunday, and a lot of the baby food I give them has fruit in it. The health visitor told me off for giving them Smash because it has too much salt in, but it's difficult to know what to feed them sometimes." It seems that Leanne desperately needs advice and help in learning about healthy nutritional choices, for not only herself but her three little ones. Eating habits are tricky to break and the sooner they adopt a more healthy regime, the better for them all.