[samtheman]

Unwillingness to take meds is a long-time problem with psychiatric patients. It’s hard to imagine not taking meds when you are dying of a physical ailment.

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.

[farming pharmer]

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.

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Sounds a lot like one of my roommates from that era, ate so many carrots she had a distinct orange tint. I wonder if it was the same chick, German gal, perchance?