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Teen goes blind after eating only fries, chips and white bread since elementary school
Atlanta Journal Constitution ^ | September 3, 2019 | Nancy Clanton

Posted on 09/03/2019 6:33:47 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia

A teen in the UK who has eaten nothing but french fries, potato chips and white bread since elementary school is now blind because of vitamin deficiencies and malnutrition damage.

The boy was taken to his doctor at 14 because he felt tired. He was diagnosed with macrocytic anemia and a vitamin B12 deficiency and prescribed supplements, according to a study published Tuesday in the Annals of Internal Medicine. He neither stuck with the vitamins nor changed his diet, however, and his condition worsened.Three years later, he was taken to the Bristol Eye Hospital with reported vision loss.According to the BBC, Dr. Denize Atan, who treated him at the hospital, said: "His diet was essentially a portion of chips from the local fish and chip shop every day. He also used to snack on crisps — Pringles — and sometimes slices of white bread and occasional slices of ham, and not really any fruit and vegetables.

"He explained this as an aversion to certain textures of food that he really could not tolerate, and so chips and crisps were really the only types of food that he wanted and felt that he could eat."For those not familiar with the British vernacular, chips are french fries and crisps are potato chips.

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TOPICS: Food; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: b12; blindness; health; macrocyticanemia; nutrition; veganism; vegetarians
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To: samtheman
I knew a girl once, a hippy girl (age about 19), back in the 70s, who went on a carrot juice diet. She only drank carrot juice. Nothing else. She became extremely listless, extremely skinny and she turned bright orange. Her mother dragged her to a doctor and the doctor told her that if she didn’t start eating food she was going to die. She came to her senses, resumed a normal diet and went on to become a (fairly) normal adult.

A friend in high school, whose smoking hot model sister went on a carrot diet also. After she turned bright orange, it took almost a year for her skin pallor to return to normal.
41 posted on 09/03/2019 7:08:26 AM PDT by farming pharmer
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To: Varda

My dog HAD to be vegetarian. She was allergic to everything, including animal proteins. She had special vet vegetarian food she ate all of her (1 day short of) 12 years of allergy hell.

She did well besides the allergies and hip dysplasia. But, the vet diets probably ensure certain supplements are included.


42 posted on 09/03/2019 7:08:58 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs)
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To: PapaBear3625

Major parental fail in this situation. You are on target.


43 posted on 09/03/2019 7:09:00 AM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: Sgt_Schultze
He should have cut back when he started needing glasses.

Yeah, I know what you mean. I had to cut back when my palms got hairy
44 posted on 09/03/2019 7:09:03 AM PDT by Karma_Sherab
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To: the OlLine Rebel
It means the texture is weird and he doesn’t like it. Hard to understand?

All foods except 3? Oh believe me I understand it, I just can't believe it.

45 posted on 09/03/2019 7:09:29 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: BobL

By the way, anyone wanting to join, or leave, my Low-Carb / Ketp ping list, just let me know, privately or publicly”


46 posted on 09/03/2019 7:09:42 AM PDT by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart - I just don't tell anyone.)
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To: BobL

Most vitamins are fat-soluble, so if you don’t eat any fats, you don’t even process those vitamins.


47 posted on 09/03/2019 7:10:21 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: BobL

It would be nice if they showed “The Magic Pill” in classrooms, but it will never happen. Big Food and Big Pharma will see to that.


48 posted on 09/03/2019 7:11:29 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
"Moderation — Lean Protein — Fresh Vegetables"

If you follow my bumper sticker diet you'll be fine...

49 posted on 09/03/2019 7:11:37 AM PDT by devane617 (Text me when someone on the Left is perp walked. Now, back to watching Lassie...)
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To: dfwgator

LOL, “Its the right thing to do”!

Wilfred Brimley


50 posted on 09/03/2019 7:11:53 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (There's a stairway to heaven, but there's a highway to hell.)
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To: 1Old Pro

IMO, it’s a form of mental illness. My mom won’t eat anything if the texture doesn’t feel right in her mouth. She is malnourished and only weighs 90 pounds. She has all kinds of digestive issues, heart issues, high BP, and almost all of it is caused by her diet. She’s in her mid-80’s but was relatively healthy until she started disliking the feel of certain foods in her mouth. The doctor says it’s all in her head. She wasn’t that bad when she was young but after she hit 75 or so it really got bad.


51 posted on 09/03/2019 7:12:54 AM PDT by Tennessee Conservative
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To: devane617

Actually better to eat fatty meats than lean protein. A lot of lean protein meats are heavily processed.


52 posted on 09/03/2019 7:15:10 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: EEGator

Many will defiantly claim there are only vegetarian teeth in there.

Aren’t these usually the same people down with the “evolution” theory? We are apes and related to chimps and gorillas? If so they should accept we can eat meat.

Also, true vegetarian mammals have multiple stomachs. We just don’t have that processing power.


53 posted on 09/03/2019 7:15:48 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs)
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To: kagnew
No way would I ever run after my children begging them to eat a vegetable....

Raised three, and while we made a point of trying to cater to their preferences, they WOULD eat lots of fruit and veggies. Sometimes it took some imagination on how to prepare. Home-made pizza is a good way to sneak veggies in under the cheese and sauce.

A lot of it is making sure they get a variety of food when they are toddlers, before preferences have a chance to get set.

54 posted on 09/03/2019 7:17:00 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
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To: 1Old Pro

Knowing my boy, I can. AND his dad (albeit he was clearly abetted by his mother/grandmother). I think it’s genetic.


55 posted on 09/03/2019 7:17:46 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs)
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To: PapaBear3625

Most kids aren’t fooled. My boy could see those veggies and feel them “a mile away”.


56 posted on 09/03/2019 7:19:26 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs)
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To: VietVet876

That’s what the loaves of bread were for.


57 posted on 09/03/2019 7:20:21 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (All I know is The I read in the papers.)
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To: poinq

He had to have other health conditions. My guess would be type 1 diabetes and the high carb diet and sustained high blood sugar destroyed his nerves.


58 posted on 09/03/2019 7:21:49 AM PDT by libh8er
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To: akalinin
After she turned bright orange, it took almost a year for her skin pallor to return to normal.

I believe that's called Coronary Trumposis.

59 posted on 09/03/2019 7:24:19 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (The Electoral College is the firewall protecting us from massive blue state vote fraud.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Probably a single parent situation, where the parent overcompensates for lack of a two parent household by being lenient.

Some children learn very early how to manipulate that self imposed parental guilt. “If YOU hadn’t driven my Dad away, he would be here to take me to football games!”


60 posted on 09/03/2019 7:27:05 AM PDT by lee martell
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