Nuggets of Death: 17-year girl with obsession syndrome collapses from daily McNuggets

To be fair, the US doctors are very clear that the US food is "Not recommended for repeated eating".

Previously she was a poster child of the McDonald's industry as an example of sustainative nutrition delivery. Well it seems like THAT American claim has deflated.

http://www.takepart.com/article/201...drops-after-eating-only-chicken-nuggets-age-2

17-Year-Old Drops After Eating Only Chicken McNuggets.

Stacey Irvine is a 17-year-old girl who's eaten chicken nuggets since she was 2. But when she recently went to the hospital after passing out from struggling to breathe, doctors blamed her diet and told her that she absolutely had to eat more healthily.

"She's been told in no uncertain terms that she will die if she carries on like this, but Stacey says she can't eat anything else," her mom, Evonne, told U.K.'s Daily Mail. "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."

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Stacey claims never to have tasted fruits or vegetables, but admits to sometimes eating fries and toast. "McDonald's chicken nuggets are my favorite," said Stacey. "I share 20 with my boyfriend, with [fries]." She also enjoys nuggets from KFC and the supermarket.

Evonne says her two younger children eat normally, and that she's tried depriving Stacey of food to force her to expand her repertoire.

In the hospital, Stacey was injected with much-needed vitamins and doctors found that she suffered from anaemia and inflamed veins on her tongue due to obsessive diet.

It's hard to imagine that in the 15 years since Stacey tasted her first nugget at McDonald's, her mom has been unable to influence her to eat the minimal level of nutrients necessary to sustain a human being. Do you think this level of leniency qualifies as abuse? How have you gotten your kids to expand beyond the toxic US Corporate foods?

 

Which part are the nuggets?

 

The kid's mother ought to be horse whipped. Nuggets are breast meat. You have to eat a well rounded diet or you won't get proper nutrition. You can't eat just chicken, or just pork, or for that matter just potatoes or just carrots. You have to eat from all food groups or you are going to suffer adverse affects.

 

At what point do food additives appear visible through American goggles?

http://rense.com/general76/chk.htm

McNuggets contain several completely synthetic ingredients, quasiedible substances that ultimately come not from a corn or soybean field but form a petroleum refinery or chemical plant. These chemicals are what make modern processed food possible, by keeping the organic materials in them from going bad or looking strange after months in the freezer or on the road. Listed first are the "leavening agents": sodium aluminum phosphate, mono-calcium phosphate, sodium acid pyrophosphate, and calcium lactate. These are antioxidants added to keep the various animal and vegetable fats involved in a nugget from turning rancid. Then there are "anti-foaming agents" like dimethylpolysiloxene, added to the cooking oil to keep the starches from binding to air molecules, so as to produce foam during the fry. The problem is evidently grave enough to warrant adding a toxic chemical to the food: According to the Handbook of Food Additives, dimethylpolysiloxene is a suspected carcinogen and an established mutagen, tumorigen, and reproductive effector; it's also flammable.

But perhaps the most alarming ingredient in a Chicken McNugget is tertiary butylhydroquinone, or TBHQ, an antioxidant derived from petroleum that is either sprayed directly on the nugget or the inside of the box it comes in to "help preserve freshness." According to A Consumer's Dictionary of Food Additives, TBHQ is a form of butane (i.e. lighter fluid) the FDA allows processors to use sparingly in our food: It can comprise no more than 0.02 percent of the oil in a nugget. Which is probably just as well, considering that ingesting a single gram of TBHQ can cause "nausea, vomiting, ringing in the ears, delirium, a sense of suffocation, and collapse." Ingesting five grams of TBHQ can kill."

 

The girl is a minor, her mother needs to do her damned job and make her eat something else, or at least admit her to a mental hospital to help her with disorder.

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McNuggets are not breast meat. They are not any form of meat really. They are compressed balls of chicken byproduct. It's like rolling a big peice of fat from a steak into a ball, frying it in oil, and calling it a steak nugget.

 

If I only ate prime fillet steak, eventually I will suffer some pretty serious malnutrician.

Having a full belly doesn't mean you are well fed or even eating well.

 

While it's certainly true that eating just one thing will make you pretty unhealthy, whatever that thing is (and it's obviously not McDonalds's fault that this woman's mother is so clearly incompetent), it's still interesting to contrast the nutritional information for McNuggets in the USA and the UK.

http://www.mcdonalds.co.uk/ukhome/product_nutrition.chicken.24.chicken-mcnuggets.html

http://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en/food/product_nutrition.chicken.124.chicken-mcnuggets-4-piece.html

You can follow the links for nutritional information and ingredients.

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/04/american-chicken-mcnuggets-have-25-times-the-salt-of-british-ones/255969/

http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2010/06/25/a-tale-of-2-nuggets/

The UK version are lower in fat and salt than their US counterparts, and don't contain some of them ore dubious chemical elements. UK McNuggets are actually healthier than those in the US. That says something, I think, about the lack of attention to such issue in the USA compared with the UK (and probably Europe). There are tighter regulations about such things here in some ways, of course, but it's also down to public awareness and pressure on food manufacturers to make even their 'unhealthy' food a little less 'unhealthy'.

 

Eating too much of anything served in American stores or fast food restaurants will make you malnurished. I prefer organic foods from farmers markets. It costs more, but it's usually well worth the extra money. Plus, it helps local economies by telling companies like Walmart that we don't want their mexican and chinese imported food.

 

90% of my food intake is home cooked. Luckily here in Laos we have a housekeeper who is a fabulous cook. Her cooking is based on fresh vegetables bought from the many fresh produce markets dotted around the city. Fresh produce is usually harvested the day before its sold, so it's really fresh. We also eat locally raised chicken, fish and beef, which is free range.

When we eat out it's at local restaurants who also serve locally produced produce. There are no McDonalds, Burger King, KFC and the like in Laos, although the Pizza Company, a Thai franchise similar to Pizza Hut have been established here. Heaps better than Pizza Hut by a mile.

 

Home cooked in America usually means disgusting processed slop from a grocery store. I try and by everything organic from farmers markets and small businesses.

 

Seems like natural selection in action. Maybe it's best that the stupid not be able to pass on their obsessive-compulsive genes.

 

TBHQ is in the cooking oil at a rate of 1 gram per each 5000 grams. You should read the wiki write up on McNuggets. They actually add a lot of nutrients to McNuggets that you don't normally get from chicken. Strangely enough if all she'd ever eaten was th chicken her mom made that she bought at the local organic food shop she'd have gotten a lot sicker a lot quicker.

 

This isn't about one girl. The girl herself is an instrument allowing us to amplify a hidden reality that many people suppose but don't fully realize... That McNuggets are unhealthy as hell and should be relegated to the same putrid class as drugs, alcohol, tobacco, and all American corporate "junk" food.

Imagine... Food called "junk" that doctors recommend not eating except in the slightest quantities. It does not meet the scientific metric of "food". Millions of US citizens ACTUALLY WISH they had more energy. If only I had more energy say they!

 

Im sensing an anti American tone here. An obsessive compulsive disorder has nothing to do with what country you live in. You could obsessively eat only apples and die from malnutrition. If you choose to live this way in any country you live, you will live a short life. Its called natural selection. Some people like to eat nuts and bolts or rotted meat. Its a mental disorder. Mcdonalds is not responsible for taking your child to seek medical help. Thats your job as a parent. Its called parenting. Mcdonalds is responsible for giving you what you ordered off their menu. I dont know of any 6 yr olds that can get in a car by themselves and go to Mcdonalds and spend 7 bucks on a #1 do you? No matter what country you live in, these things happen. Mental disorders are not unique to a country.

 

McNuggests are unhealthy, but they aren't likely to kill anybody in small doses. Their recipe could certainly be improved to make them a bit less unhealthy in certain ways (as has happened in the UK with things like removing some of the nastier chemicals and reducing the salt and fat content and so on), but really the key point is to ensure that people have the real information about the product and its potential health issues, and the education to understand what healthy eating actually should be.

 

Only because you typify diseased disgusting obese mutants as American and any opposition to their bloated health problems is anti-American from your goggles.

The world is composed of PEOPLE. The loyalty of all men should be to PEOPLE.

Do you know who the enemies of PEOPLE are!!!!!! Bad food, disease, parasites and other such things!

 

Stuff and nonsense. Again read the wiki write up on McNuggets before you expound on crap you know nothing about.

 

What exactly is 'nonsense' about it? The recipe for UK McNuggets IS different from US McNuggets, and they DO contain less fat and salt, and DO NOT contains some of the chemicals used in the US version. The wiki write up on McNuggets doesn't mention that, but wiki is not the ultimate source of all human knowledge. The differences in the ingredients and nutrition lists on McDonalds's own US and UK website do make this quite clear, though, as do the other sources I have already linked in post #8 on this thread.

 

Yes this was the thing that struck me. Regardless of the girls mental issue, the mother must bare responsibility for enabling the behavior. Some years ago Jamie Oliver ran a campaign to overhaul eating habits in British schools. The outrage expressed by some parents over the forced feeding of fresh food to their kids was truly astonishing. And I was further concerned to see kids who'd never seen spaghetti or willing to try it. I dont know anywhere else in the world where you could put a plate of spaghetti in front of a 5 year old and they and they refuse to touch it

 

You mean the same way kaliningrad typifies vodka drinking liver diseased parasites? Your goggles apparently dont let you look around your own country. And I dont typify anything. Myself and everyone I know exercise every day and are in great shape. I think as most people do Mcdonalds isnt exactly cuisine. No one eats there every day. Congratualtion you found one mental patient who does and then extrapolated to all Americans.
Do you drink Vodka? Yes or no.

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You mean the same way kaliningrad typifies vodka drinking liver diseased parasites? Your goggles apparently dont let you look around your own country. And I dont typify anything. Myself and everyone I know exercise every day and are in great shape. I think as most people do Mcdonalds isnt exactly cuisine. No one eats there every day. Congratualtion you found one mental patient who does and then extrapolated to all Americans.
Do you drink Vodka? Yes or no.

 

"Assault" McNuggets. As it's obvious this family is incapable of controlling themselves, the rest of "the collective" must be preemptively punished with blanket prohibitions.

 

Doesn't pass the smell test.

 

This brings to mind the RW reaction to Michelle Obama's campaign to serve healthier meals in schools and educate children as to what constitutes a healthy diet. She was even ridiculed for advocating growing and eating your own fresh vegetables and buying them from farmers marts.

 

McNuggets are like heroin for children.