Posted on 01/26/2012 9:34:56 AM PST by Signalman
A teenage girl who has eaten almost nothing else apart from chicken nuggets for 15 years has been warned by doctors that the junk food is killing her.
Stacey Irvine, 17, has been hooked on the treats since her mother bought her some at a McDonald’s restaurant when she was two.
In a small portion of fries there are 230 calories, 11g of fat, 29g of carbohydrates, 3g protein and 160mg sodium.
If Miss Irvine were to eat three portions of each in a day she would eat a third more fat and almost double the amount of salt than is recommended.
Also each portion of chicken nuggets contains just two per cent of our daily vitamin C requirement, compared to 106 per cent in an orange.
Not much better are the fries, which contain eight per cent of our vitamin C needs.
Medics gave her a series of injections and started her on an urgent course of vitamins.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
I once had a showdown with my mom. She forced me to remain at the kitchen table for over two hours until I cleared my plate. (It took me that long to sneak the food little piece by little piece to the dog because she remained in the kitchen cleaning and doing the dishes)LOL!
Based on the pics in the article, she looks healthy to me. I smell BS.
OTOH, this will not stop me from forwarding this article to my sis since chicken nuggets are one of the few things her eight-year-old son will eat :/
My sister in law went through a phase for a couple of years where she only ate Chicken McNuggets. She grew out of it but she still will not touch vegetables at age 30.
you arew 100% correct - this is a McD’s hit job
This story could have easily said “Kid who wears nothing but t-shirts and jeans rushed to hospital”
The two may have nothing to do with each other
This story is “crap”, how did at 5 yrs of age did she get to McDonalds? Did they live next door to McDonalds? How at 6 yrs of age did she pay for her McNuggets? etc. Judging by her pictures this is a scam.
Exactly, a perfect example of a post hoc ergo propter hoc argument. Ridiculous, but it makes a sensational headline.
Hmmm. She’s not as fat as I though she would be.
So she’s eating only Chicken McNuggets all her life? If she was eating tofu or bean sprouts or only eating non-processed organic wheat or other Mobama approved foods - she would still be in the hospital.
I got two words for these people: Balanced diet.
Nice nuggets.
“eaten nothing but chicken nuggets since age 2”
Probably not true. Sounds impossible.
The parents should be blamed for this.
Yeah.
It took three days of being served the same stuffed bell pepper for breakfast, lunch and dinner to convince my mom that I really meant it when I said I wasn't going to eat it ever.
Thank God it got moldy, else she'd still be trying to feed it to me.
On the plus side, we never had another bell pepper in the kitchen...
The worst part is that while she was on the table being examined, she laid five eggs and then pecked at the doctor.
I can’t tell you how many pieces of liver were hidden under spoons....
Pizza
The ONLY time I ever ate liver was at an old aunt’s home when I was about 6. Afterwards, I ran straight out the front door & threw up on the lawn.
LOL!
Didn’t you have a dog? Ours would always crowd around me at the table knowing that they’d get EVERY bite.
We were poor, but eating an animal organ designed for filtering out the impurities of blood just didn’t fall into my category of ‘food’.
I actually ran away from home for two days when I was 12 years old because I smelled Liver and Onions cooking when I came home from school.
If anything gets close that’s it!!!
A three day battle but you won the war! Congrats!
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