15 bags a day? Heck, after one bag I feel like my insides were dying... :S
Three years on potato chips
London
July 4, 2005
When Gina Gough was rushed to hospital with severe abdominal pains and jaundice, doctors suspected hepatitis.
But the 22-year-old's condition was the result of consuming almost nothing except potato chips for three years.
She was eating up to 15 bags a day and weighed 89 kilograms. Ms Gough, a child-care nurse from Staffordshire, said: "My mum used to tell me that all the crisps I ate would make me ill, but I shrugged her off ...I could have died."
She developed gallstones up to 3.75 centimetres wide, which formed from the excessive amounts of cholesterol in her body. When her gall bladder was removed in a 41/2-hour operation, surgeons discovered that it had filled with stones and swollen to the size of a tennis ball. They said it could have exploded at any time.
Ms Gough has since started to eat low-fat meals and take regular exercise and she hopes that her story will be a warning to others. She now weighs 79 kilograms.
Her appetite for potato chips developed after she was made redundant in 2000 and spent her days in front of the television. "I'd start off with a packet of crisps for breakfast . . . I wasn't tempted by any other food. I was depressed after losing my job but I felt good after eating a packet of crisps," she said.
Ms Gough believes that she was addicted to "highs" generated by the fat and chemical additives in the chips. In 2003, a study by the Rockefeller University in New York suggested that biochemical changes caused by large quantities of fat and sugar were comparable to the addictive reactions caused by heroin and cocaine.
- Telegraph
Link:
http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/...29323602.html#
Potato chips for 3 years.
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