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15 year chicken nugget diet lands girl, 17, in hospital 
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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

By Julian Gavaghan

Last updated at 1:13 AM on 27th January 2012

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.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2092071/Stacey-Irvine-17-collapses-eating-McDonalds-chicken-nuggets-age-2.html

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It is also important that you eat lots of different colours


Taste the rainbow! Or just eat lots of Smarties

One night on a holiday I drank a lot of different colours. Was hungover for at least 2 days.

The mother should have been more forceful with regards to her daughter's eating habits

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The mother should have been more forceful with regards to her daughter's eating habits

Especially when she was 2 years old FFS...

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That's piss poor parenting!!
If my son suddenly started demanding chicken nuggets for every meal, I'd give him normal food. If he didn't eat it, he'd go hungry. Hunger would soon make him eat good food again.
These parents don't seem to realise they're in control of what their child eats, it's not the child in control.

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That's piss poor parenting!!
If my son suddenly started demanding chicken nuggets for every meal, I'd give him normal food. If he didn't eat it, he'd go hungry. Hunger would soon make him eat good food again.
These parents don't seem to realise they're in control of what their child eats, it's not the child in control.

And what if your child continues to refuse to eat?

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Children aren't that stupid. Eventually their desire to get what they want will be overcome by their desire not to be hungry.
Are you seriously suggesting that parents give in to these ridiculous demands from their children?

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Children aren't that stupid. Eventually their desire to get what they want will be overcome by their desire not to be hungry.
Are you seriously suggesting that parents give in to these ridiculous demands from their children?

No, I'm suggesting that children are entirely capable of not eating (for example there are child anorexics), and that you may find yourself up for child neglect long before you child capitulates and eats what you provide.

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Doubt it. You're more likely to get done for feeding them chicken nuggets for every single meal.

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‘But Stacey says she can’t eat anything else.

No, she won't eat anything else. An important recognition.

IMO feeding a kid only nuggets is almost as negligent as not feeding them anything. The mother should have sought help earlier - she could have been seen by an eating disorder team earlier on. Certainly if my kid would want only chicken nuggets, I'd be prepared to let them go hungry for a couple of meals or strike a compromise.

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It's even more simple than that; don't feed a 2 year old Macdonalds! Very difficult to become addicted to something you've never had...

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+1. If I ever settle down and manage to have kids, I plan for none of them to experience chocolate/sweets/crisps etc until they are much older.

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+1. If I ever settle down and manage to have kids, I plan for none of them to experience chocolate/sweets/crisps etc until they are much older.

By "much older", I agree that 2 is far to young. But how about 5 or 6 when they're not always under your control?

It still amazes me that many people think it's normal to eat crisps, chocolate or fizzy pop every single day of their lives. Or even every week. When I was a kid, eating that kind of food was a special occasion that meant you were obviously at a party! Cocaine and champagne for kids... Some people like to party all the time, every day of their lives, and then strangely they end up sick or fat.

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It's even more simple than that; don't feed a 2 year old Macdonalds! Very difficult to become addicted to something you've never had...

My three year old loves McD's. Every time we drive past he asks if he can have a fruit bag. (That's all he ever gets. He's had one normal McD's meal in his life, and that was only because we were stuck for food on the first night of a holiday.)

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