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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We tried everything. NONE of it works if you have THAT kind of person who just can’t stand things and is not fooled by the tricks some try to pull. I think it’s partly genetic - I was called “picky” by my family but not nearly like my husband. I too have texture (and visual) issues, though not much. (I don’t like onions and tomatoes because of those, but I like the flavor. Hate peppers for all reasons.)
None of it applies, and punishing them by forcing them to eat or stay at table just backfires. The “sweet” thing doesn’t apply to him either - in fact, I TRIED to use sweets to entice him into eating more, trying more, but he just doesn’t like what he doesn’t like. He is just as picky about junk food as any.
Nope, all I ended up doing was “you must eat this tiny bit I put on your plate” of each of 2 or 3 kinds of things. A tiny bit wasn’t the torture (for all of us) that a whole serving would be. He does that.
His Dad told him not to do that or he would go blind.
Guess he didn’t listen to his Dad.
Not German. Living in Las Vegas.
If crisps are chips, and if chips are fries, then fries must be crisps.
“But I could not get down, a lump of Cream of Wheat....”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ElFvNDJiDc
I’ve used IVD. I have some on the shelf. Given that your dog had this problem from a very early age (that’s pretty rare) you did the best you could. I have a friend whose dog has similar allergies and you wouldn’t know how close she was to dying. She also is living to old age.
Totally understand about the snake oil thing. However the people I’m talking about are all experts and everyone uses and knows (and funds) high priced vet work and research. With one dog, going with the vets recommendation is the way to go. However, when you need to know how much is environment and how much is hereditary, trying a corrected (raw diet, correctly mixed, raw diets aren’t just meat) diet to see if that’s the problem is important when they make the decision to move forward with not just one dog but it’s whole line.
Apparently it can. See: Nutritional optic neuropathy and Toxic and nutritional optic neuropathy.
It looks like the blindness is caused by a lack of folic acid and vitamin B-complex vitamins, specifically, thiamine.
The article goes on to say that the teen was not completely blind but had a blind spot in the middle of his vision, which means he could not drive. He was able to walk around and function because he still had his peripheral vision.
You cannot fix stupid. Next to our life, our eyes are our most precious gift. I just cannot feel sorry for this person. I doubt if going blind occurred in some instant overnight episode, but rather gradually over time where this creep should have caught on and started following the doc’s orders.
And he went to the doctor at age 14 for the initial diagnosis? What about parent or guardian control? Didn’t his lack of eyesight show up in school? What about school authorities? There’s just too much wrong here.
‘Other than the lack of curry, tea with cream and sugar, biscuits, and beer it does sound like the standard modern British diet’.
Well that is a dumb thing to write.
I hate to be the one to rain on your low carb, keto parade... but you are missing the point of this example of bad eating. Most of the people I know who have caused serious damage to their health and in many cases actually died were those who went overboard on Atkins style diets. Most young people can handle a seriously screwed up diet philosophy for a few years without harming themselves permanently, but older folks often put themselves in an early grave.
Humans are omnivores; we typically do the best when we eat a diverse diet. The lesson from this story is not that eating too many carbs and too much oil will make you go blind, the problem here was that the idiot kid are nothing else. People who restrict the diversity of their diets because of some weird belief system are typically doing a disservice to themselves. Because we are omnivores most of us can handle a certain amount of lunacy in our dietary philosophy but the problem with diet true believers like vegetarians or people who will eat basically no “carbs” is that they tend to push their nonsense too far and on everyone else.
If people want to live their lives avoiding whole grains, fruits, and vegetables, fine. Most of us do eat too much processed flour, sugar, and fats and this puts our health at risk. But not as much as people I have known who literally cut everything other than meat out of their diets, and ended up in the hospital. And the ones who ignored their doctors and nutritionists dietary advice often cut their lives short even if they had lost some weight and their cholesterol numbers were not that bad.
So once again the moral of this story is a lack of diversity in one’s diet is bad. If the kid chose to eat only deep fried fish without the breading instead of the chips he might not have gone blind but he still would not likely be a healthy teen.
This morning my wife is making us omelets with some of the leftover rib steak that I grilled over charcoal the other day. They have some delicious tomatoes and peppers and other vegetables from our garden in them. You probably do not object to that, but I like to eat mine on a piece of wheat toast. And for desert I like to split a blueberry pop tart with my just because their processed flour and corn syrup based filling are delicious. And we are still working on her chocolate moose birthday cake.
When my granddog comes to stay with me she gets one meal in the morning of a very high quality dog food that my daughter has researched. In the evening I give her two good-sized raw chicken thighs on the bone. That is very well-balanced nutrition, although it’s a little unnerving the first time you hear her crunching the bones up LOL, has sort of a horror movie sound. About every third or fourth day I give her a raw egg in the as a midday treat, she loves those things
Did you say Moose?
And Pringles are none of the above. They are salty cardboard.
I eat a lot of vegetables on a Keto diet.
Yes, if you just eat Pork Rinds, Processed Cheese and Processed meats, technically that’s Keto, but it’s not healthy.
Regards,
Cats are “Obligate Carnivores”...meaning they must have an all-meat diet or a majority-meat diet to grow and stay healthy.
All the crap that pet food manufacturers put in (grains, veggies, etc.) are just fillers or to make the food visually appealing...to humans.
He only gets the Honorable Mention in the Darwin Awards.
Stupid is as stupid does...
Hahaha... I see what you did there. ;)
I’ve actually sampled dog food and dog snacks. What I’ve noticed is they are usually big on smell but taste like they are made of ground up cardboard. Blandest food I’ve ever put in my mouth.
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