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1. So, that is how people develop Prader-Willi Syndrome! Interesting.

Reply to My Good Babushka (Original post)

Wed Feb 26, 2014, 11:22 AM

Feb 2014

"... Characteristic of PWS is "low muscle tone, short stature, incomplete sexual development, cognitive disabilities, problem behaviors, and a chronic feeling of hunger that can lead to excessive eating and life-threatening obesity..."

more at link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prader-Willi_syndrome

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So, that is how people develop Prader-Willi Syndrome! Interesting. Tuesday Afternoon Feb 2014 #1

Oh, I've seen that illness My Good Babushka Feb 2014 #2

Yes, very debilitating. Did not mean to make light of it by any means. Just that your Tuesday Afternoon Feb 2014 #3

Yes, I like to research weird folk lore My Good Babushka Feb 2014 #4

very cool thing you have going. Tuesday Afternoon Feb 2014 #5