Exchange Student Starved

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When 17 year old Jonathan McCullum left last summer to be an exchange student in Egypt, he got on the plane weighing 155 pounds. When he returned home four months later, his parents arrived at the airport to find that their son weighing only 97 pounds and too weak to carry his own luggage! McCullum, 17, says he was kept on short rations by his host family of Coptic Christians, who fast for more than 200 days a year. The teen believes that it wasn't simply a case of cultural misunderstanding. He said his hosts were just stingy. The host father,Shaker Hanna denies the accusations saying, "The truth is, the boy we hosted for nearly six months was eating for an hour and a half at every meal. The amount of food he ate at each meal was equal to six people," Does this http://www.bostonherald.com/news/national/general/view.bg?articleid=1076498&srvc=rss look like a boy eating for 6?