Now really? I’m trying to imagine telling my Mother what I wasn’t going to eat………………………..
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So forgive me if I have no sympathy for this mother that allowed her child to eat McDonald’s Chicken McNuggets EVERYDAY. I have sympathy for the child, and hopes she gets better and adopts a healthier lifestyle…but Mom? You couldn’t make a toddler eat right? GTFOOHWTBS!
(CBS) Talk about being a picky eater. A British teenager reportedly has eaten “practically nothing” but chicken nuggets for the past 15 years. And now she’s paying for it.
Seventeen-year-old Stacey Irvine didn’t think her nugget habit was a big deal – until she collapsed one day work, The Sun reported. When Stacey arrived at the hospital, doctors were horrified to find she had eaten chicken nuggets every single day and “never” ate fruits or vegetables.
“My main meal is always chicken nuggets every day,” Stacey told the paper. “I share 20 with my boyfriend with chips (fries).”
A 20-piece chicken nuggets meal contains 58g of fat and 926 calories, which exceeds daily recommended intakes of 56g fat, and is almost half of the daily recommended 2,000 calories a day, according to The Daily Mail.
There is a tiny bit of variety in Stacey’s diet, according to The Sun. Once in a while, she’ll eat a slice of toast for breakfast or snack on potato chips.
Doctors diagnosed Stacey with anemia and swollen veins in her tongue, putting her on an emergency vitamin regimen. Stacey’s high salt, high fat diet also raises her risk for future chronic health problems, including heart disease, stroke, and cancer.“She’s been told in no uncertain terms that she’ll die if she carries on like this,” Stacey’s mom Evonne said. “But she says she can’t eat anything else.” Since Stacey’s taste for nuggets started at age 2, Evonne has tried everything, including trying to starve her daughter to get her to eat something healthier.
“I am at my wit’s end,” Evonne said. “I’m praying she can be helped before it’s too late.”
Read the rest of this bizarre story here.
And after this revelation, can’t say its been a good week for ole Mickey D’s. But fast food, be it of the drive-thru variety, or popping a meal into a microwave…its not healthy. What it is…is FAST. In today’s “I want it now” society, many of us have been suckered into believing that any meal taking longer than 10 minutes to cook is a hassle….and then we wonder why those pounds keep creeping up, why we feel lethargic and why climbing one flight of stairs is an act of suicide.
So Obots, what would you say to this mother? What would you say to the person that swears they have no time to cook? How can we get healthy as a community with a fast food joint and convenience store on every corner?