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From existing on pringles, white bread, and fries, as well as other things, none of them too nutritious (if you though anything else you are filthy). From a local outlet KSL
Scientists from the University of Bristol examined the case of a young patient whose extremely picky eating led to blindness and have warned of the dangers of a poor diet.
The unidentified patient told doctors he had only eaten fries from the fish and chip shop, Pringles potato chips, white bread, slices of processed ham and sausage since elementary school, and he avoided foods with certain textures. He first visited a doctor at age 14, complaining of tiredness, according to a case report published in the Annals of Internal Medicine on Monday.
He Wasn’t Healthy;
He wasn’t taking any medication, had a normal BMI and height, and showed no visible signs of malnutrition. Doctors discovered low vitamin B12 levels and anemia, treating the patient with vitamin B12 injections and offering dietary advice. One year later there were signs of hearing loss and vision symptoms, but doctors did not find the cause. His vision had worsened to the point of blindness by 17 years of age, and doctors identified vitamin B12 deficiency, low copper and selenium levels, a high zinc level, reduced vitamin D level and bone level density, according to a statement from the University of Bristol. By this stage, vision damage was permanent.
Researchers from Bristol Medical School and the Bristol Eye Hospital examined the case and concluded that the patient suffered nutritional optic neuropathy, a dysfunction of the optic nerve. In developed countries it is mostly caused by bowel problems or medication that interferes with the absorption of nutrients, and it is rarely caused entirely by poor diet because food is readily available.
Sorry about the large quote blocks it is just easier to get you the info. So yes, this boy’s diet sucked, badly in many ways. Obviously, the large amount of starch and carbs as well as just poor choices were partially to blame. The disease is typically only seen in developed countries from poor absorption.
Only common in undeveloped country, are you reading this? So now we are not only going downhill in terms of rending care to our citizens we are now eating a crap diet that isn’t even worthy of an undeveloped country. We have become some of the worst eaters in the world and in the latest bit of PC we have an entire movement of people that are pushing being overweight as an ok lifestyle. Does that mean that we all must be waif thin? No. Can we carry a little extra weight? Sure. However eating a shit diet, being morbidly overweight and out of physical condition is not safe or heathy and deserves some level of scrutiny.
Look I am not in the best of shape, my body took a huge hit with my foot being broken and I have fought to even be able to eat remotely healthy. It sucks when you really love sugar, fries, chicken nuggets, pastry, ice cream…. you get the idea. While we are not all supposed to look like a waif, we should be both eating and doing the things that keep our bodies in shape. It is ok to be curvy, but it is not ok to be fat. Morbidly obese is not a lifestyle that we all should strive to be or keep. Yeah I love fries and white breads and all the unhealthy stuff. I have a very co-dependent relationship with sugar and not eating sugar can make things tense in my world. All of this is bad and a huge warning to us from our bodies that we are not. I am making a commitment to you that I will be working on and following a healthy diet and exercise routine.
Fat shaming is wrong, but stop helping fat take over your life.