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Hooked on chicken nuggets: Girl, 17, who has eaten nothing else since age

-TWO rushed to hospital after collapsing

-Stacey Irvine has breathing problems and anaemia

-Only other food she eats regularly are fries

-But despite warnings cannot resist McDonald's treats


Ever since she was a toddler, Stacey Irvine has eaten little else but chicken nuggets and the occasional portion of chips.

Now, at the age of 17, she has been warned by doctors to change her appalling diet or die.

The factory worker – who says she has never tasted fresh fruit or vegetables – had to be taken to hospital earlier this week when she collapsed after struggling to breathe.


Doctors found that her 15-year ‘chronic chicken nugget addiction’ has left her with anaemia and inflamed veins on her tongue.
So deficient was her body in vitamins and nutrients that she had to be injected with them.


Although she has been urged to drastically change her diet, she says she cannot give up the fast food.

Stacey, who is recovering at home on a high-dose course of vitamins, has been hooked on chicken nuggets since her mother let her try them in a McDonald’s restaurant at the age of two.

‘I loved them so much they were all I would eat,’ she said. ‘I just couldn’t face even trying other foods. Mum gave up giving me anything else years ago.’
The teenager, of Castle Vale, Birmingham, admits she will occasionally vary her food intake – by eating a slice of toast for breakfast or a packet of crisps.
Yet following her admission to hospital, she has conceded that the diet is having a negative impact on her health.

‘I am starting to realise this is really bad for me,’ she said. ‘My main meal is always chicken nuggets every day.

‘McDonald’s chicken nuggets are my favourite. I share 20 with my boyfriend with chips.

‘But I also like KFC and supermarket brands.’

A less serious consequence of her craving is that she is struggling to store all the free toys that come with the fast food meals, she added – they fill four bin bags.

Stacey’s mother, Evonne, is exasperated by her daughter’s refusal to eat a healthy and varied diet and wants her to see a specialist.
‘She’s been told in no uncertain terms that she will die if she carries on like this,’ the 39-year-old explained.

‘But Stacey says she can’t eat anything else. It breaks my heart to see her eating those damned nuggets.

‘I am at my wit’s end. I’m praying she can be helped before it’s too late.’
The beauty therapist – who says her two other children Leo, five, and Ava, three, both eat healthily – has even tried depriving Stacey of food in a bid to get her to eat something other than nuggets.


Nutritionist Dr Carina Norris said that, during her ten years of experience, she has not come across such an extreme case of food addiction.

She believes Stacey’s diet will have serious long-term health implications, as her body will be lacking iron, calcium, antioxidants, vitamins and good fats.
‘She should view her health scare as a warning – a wake-up call that she needs to drastically change her diet.

‘Fruit and vegetables are integral to long-term health. Without them, you greatly increase the chances of developing chronic conditions such as heart disease and cancer.

‘So the sooner you can get children eating them, the better. It is also important that you eat lots of different colours. Stacey’s diet is going to be very beige and high in saturated fat.’


A 20-piece portion of McNuggets contains 58g of fat and 926 calories, which exceeds the recommended 56g daily fat allowance and is almost half of the adult guidance of 2,000 calories a day.

Jamie Oliver has scored a rare victory in the U.S. after convincing McDonald’s to change its hamburger recipe.

The chef had called on the fast-food giant to remove the filling he called ‘pink slime’.

Following his pressure, it is no longer using the mixture of ammonium hydroxide and fatty beef offcuts in the U.S.
Oliver, pilloried in the country for encouraging healthy eating, showed TV viewers how the ammonium hydroxide is added to cow parts usually used for cooking oil or pet food to eliminate E.coli.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/ar...#ixzz1lBVGBuUJ

[Locke.]

Must be lies.

[GypsyGoth]

I thought she'd be really fat.

[Glenn.]

What a freak

[bbfan1991]

Oh dear.

[Novo]

This thread has been GIP stamped

[Roy Mars III]

Cheapest date ever

[lostalex]

If there was a store that delivered just chicken mcnuggets the way other stores deliver pizza, you'd make a fortune. I would order Mcnugget's delivery every freaking day of my life. and i would eat the SHEET out of those Mcnuggets. I would decimate them, I would DESTROY them, every SINGLE day.

i'm just saying... those nuggets are GOOD (the dipping sauces are damn good too)

[Roy Mars III]

Burger King just started doing deliveries in Washington D.C. It'll be here soon

[Marsh.]

How boring. Fair enough two year olds and other young children get very fussy but getting to the age of 17 before you're practically forced to stop is pathetic.

She needs to grow the hell up. Getting to that age without showing the slightest bit of interest in any other types of food. Ridiculous.

[nicole_burks]

How can you eat the same food every day

especially mcdonalds

[Marsh.]

She must have had ****s like torpedos falling out of her arse.

[King Gizzard]

How on earth does she look reasonably attractive when she eats nothing but processed meat and grease? Must be bollocks

[Marsh.]

Originally Posted by Nathan

How on earth does she look reasonably attractive when she eats nothing but processed meat and grease? Must be bollocks

You can see it in her face in the close up on the actual article. She looks dead around the eyes.

[King Gizzard]

Fair enough...still can't believe it

[iRyan]

Total bogus story. Never tasted a vegetable or fruit in her life? Give me a break.

[Kizzy]

saw this on parentdish, she is suffering serious health complications due to her diet, like anorexics you dont start to look ill untill the damage has been done.

[Niamh.]

That's crazy. Her parents are completely to blame on this for giving her and letting her carry on that habit since she basically started eating. No kids want to eat veg and fruit but you have to make them

[Vicky.]

Everytime I see this thread it makes me want a mc donalds

[Niall]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

That's crazy. Her parents are completely to blame on this for giving her and letting her carry on that habit since she basically started eating. No kids want to eat veg and fruit but you have to make them

This!

[Kizzy]

i dont think its that simple, she has siblings who eat normally.

[Marsh.]

Regardless of how her parents handled, getting to 17 years of age and not having the slightest bit of interest in anything other than a toddler's snack is extremely odd.

Surprised she looks a healthy weight and has a boyfriend and everything.

Something tells me the story is exaggerated. Where she does actually eat other things regularly but has some kind of a 4 days a week addiction to them or something that's now affecting. No way would she have survived to this age on just nuggets.
Her tongue must be like velcro.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by kizzy

i dont think its that simple, she has siblings who eat normally.

Of course it's that simple! Believe me, if you refuse to give a child anything but their dinner they'll eat it when they get hungry enough

[Vicky.]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Of course it's that simple! Believe me, if you refuse to give a child anything but their dinner they'll eat it when they get hungry enough

harsh mum

[Kizzy]

i agree, and that would be my position, my grandparents were edwardians haha fussy eaters had not been invented so my parents instilled an 'eat and be ruddy grateful you are getting owt' attitude to food in me. And yet following the fussy eaters programme on C4 i see how events can trigger these bizarre behavioural changes in eating patterns.