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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I have a relative who works with "public health" in NY City government clinics. Have heard many stories about people too lazy to take prescriptions, or kids with ailments and zero adult supervision to help cure them.
Check for hairy palms...............
Mom warned me about going blind around that age. She also told me to eat my vegetables.
Idiot. You need cheese.
This story is wrong somehow. It has to be fake. Fryer grease potatoes and bread would not make someone go blind. Obviously a kid who could maintain this diet for so long has to have other issues as well. But lack of vitamins would not cause blindness in a teenager.
I worked briefly with a guy, probably 18 or 19, who apparently lived on McNuggets and energy drinks. He was fired for constantly calling in sick. Can’t imagine why...
Symptoms Of Vitamin D Deficiency That Most People Ignore 1. Muscle Weakness. 2. Bone Pain. 3. Constant Respiratory Problems. 4. Sweaty Head. 5. Depression. 6. Infertility. 7. Chronic Infections. 8. Cardiovascular Disease. 9. Psoriasis. 10. Chronic Pain. 11. Tiredness. 12. Hypertension ...
It is the UK...
“Kingdomwide call for vitamin fortified chips!”
Would’ve been a better title.
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.
Sure, that's his story. Check for the girly magazines under his mattress.
It’s usually the sudden stop at the end that does it - falling is just, well, falling.
Vitamin A deficiency can.
What Is Vitamin A Deficiency?
https://www.aao.org/eye-health/diseases/vitamin-deficiency
Vitamin A plays an important role in your vision. To see the full spectrum of light, your eye needs to produce certain pigments for your retina to work properly. Vitamin A deficiency stops the production of these pigments, leading to night blindness. Your eye also needs vitamin A to nourish other parts of your eye, including the cornea. Without enough vitamin A, your eyes cannot produce enough moisture to keep them properly lubricated.
Vitamin A deficiency is the leading cause of preventable blindness in children worldwide. An estimated 250,000 to 500,000 children become blind every year because of vitamin A deficiency. Half of these children die within a year of losing their sight.
In pregnant women, vitamin A deficiency causes night blindness and may contribute to maternal mortality. Vitamin A deficiency also harms the immune system (the body’s ability to fight disease). This increases the chance of death from malaria, measles and diarrhea.
‘I blame his parents for giving in to him.”
That was my first thought too. Reminds me of the commerical on TV where the Mother is running after a little girls of about 4 or 5 begging her to eat one more spoonful of veggies, to me that is sickening. No way would I ever run after my children begging them to eat a vegetable....
LOW CARB / KETO PING!!!
I read a number of stories about these types of cases yesterday, usually due to Vitamin A deficiency. What caught my attention is that these people ate virtually no fat, and often not much protein. In at least some of the cases (maybe all), it was an eating disorder that was not dealt with. With cases like these, you don’t coddle the kids (regardless of what Dr. Spock says) and you force-feed them, if necessary...and if the parents are vegan types, they also need help in cases like this, because the kid needs to eat right!
So their diets were dominated by carbs, and the results were terrible (in one case, the loss of both eyesight and hearing). That person did eat some chicken, but chicken is low in fat and it didn’t provide the Vitamin A needed. Some cheese, butter, nuts, and/or red meat, and he’d still have a normal life.
https://jezebel.com/teen-goes-deaf-and-blind-after-eating-nothing-but-proce-1837820116
So it wasn’t the carbs directly destroying their lives, but the carbs allowed them to eat, but only getting empty calories.
Here’s one more...just shows that we do have to be careful, as was discussed yesterday - keeping the carbs very low is great, but keep protein amounts under control too!
“an aversion to certain textures of food that he really could not tolerate”
Trust me, having a picky kid - unbelievably picky - is no picnic. Nothing works; they’re not stupid. I’m wondering if my son has this kind of problem as he does occasionally complain about the feeling.
It means the texture is weird and he doesn’t like it.
Hard to understand?
I always ask those filthy hippies why we have the teeth we have.
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