3dGameMan
07-11-2005, 08:07 AM
Women ate 15 bags of crisps a day for three years: ~source (http://telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/07/03/ncrisp03.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/07/03/ixhome.html)
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By Karyn Miller, Health Correspondent
(Filed: 03/07/2005)
When Gina Gough was rushed into hospital in agony, with severe abdominal pains and jaundice, doctors initially suspected hepatitis and put her to an isolation ward.
In fact, the 22-year-old's condition was the result of a three-year diet that consisted almost entirely of crisps. She was eating up to 15 bags a day and went into hospital weighing 14st.
Her case demonstrates the potential dangers of a junk-food diet and follows last year's controversial film Super Size Me, in which a documentary-maker ate nothing but McDonald's food for a month and monitored the subsequent deterioration in his health. It is likely to renew fears that Britain's younger generation faces unprecedented ill-health and early death due to poor diet.
Miss Gough, a nursery nurse from Cannock in Staffordshire, said: "My mum used to tell me that all the crisps I ate would make me ill, but I shrugged her off because I didn't think anything this bad could happen to me. I could have died."
She developed gallstones up to an inch-and-a-half in diameter, which formed from the excessive amounts of cholesterol in her body. Most gallstone patients are twice Miss Gough's age. When her gall bladder was removed in a four-and-a-half hour operation last autumn, surgeons were shocked to discover that it had filled with stones and swollen to the size of a tennis ball. They said it could have exploded at any time...
http://telegraph.co.uk/news/graphics/2005/07/03/ncrisp03b.jpg
By Karyn Miller, Health Correspondent
(Filed: 03/07/2005)
When Gina Gough was rushed into hospital in agony, with severe abdominal pains and jaundice, doctors initially suspected hepatitis and put her to an isolation ward.
In fact, the 22-year-old's condition was the result of a three-year diet that consisted almost entirely of crisps. She was eating up to 15 bags a day and went into hospital weighing 14st.
Her case demonstrates the potential dangers of a junk-food diet and follows last year's controversial film Super Size Me, in which a documentary-maker ate nothing but McDonald's food for a month and monitored the subsequent deterioration in his health. It is likely to renew fears that Britain's younger generation faces unprecedented ill-health and early death due to poor diet.
Miss Gough, a nursery nurse from Cannock in Staffordshire, said: "My mum used to tell me that all the crisps I ate would make me ill, but I shrugged her off because I didn't think anything this bad could happen to me. I could have died."
She developed gallstones up to an inch-and-a-half in diameter, which formed from the excessive amounts of cholesterol in her body. Most gallstone patients are twice Miss Gough's age. When her gall bladder was removed in a four-and-a-half hour operation last autumn, surgeons were shocked to discover that it had filled with stones and swollen to the size of a tennis ball. They said it could have exploded at any time...