*tire screech* Wait, WHAT? Ok I know Chicken McNuggets can be bad for you, BUT...

[Zalatix]

Let's see who here can spot the OTHER alarming part of this story.

http://health.yahoo.net/experts/dayinhealth/chicken-nuggets-how-bad-are-they

Chicken Nuggets: How Bad Are They?

By Lisa Collier Cool
Jan 26, 2012

When the kids are wailing, the boss wasn’t happy with your presentation, and the kitchen is anything but pristine, what mom hasn’t thrown up her hands and given in to demands for chicken nuggets? Like, three times a week?

Maybe Mom should tell the kids: Be careful what you wish for.

Read about celebrities who dealt with eating disorders.

This week 17-year-old British factory worker Stacey Irvine was rushed to the hospital when she collapsed, struggling to breathe. During the exam, doctors were stunned to learn that Ms. Irvine had never in her life eaten fruit or vegetables; instead she had eaten almost nothing but fast-food chicken nuggets since she was two years old.

Her mother, Evonne Irvine, told reporters she had gone to great lengths to try to feed her daughter more nutritious food, at one point even trying to starve the girl, but it hadn’t worked. Stacey responded that, once she started eating nuggets, she “loved them so much they were all I would eat.”

[JSnuffy]

1. No mention of sauce?

Seriously.. who eats nuggets without sauce...?

[X_Digger]

3. Honey is a vegetable, right? Right? RIGHT?!? Hehe. n/t

[d_r]

8. my 8-year-old

would never be able to bear sauce on a chicken nugget. My daughter, on the other hand, would eat the sauce if she could leave out the chicken. Different strokes.

[JSnuffy]

26. Fair enough.. Turns out you have a strange 8 year old...

That's just odd...

[d_r]

28. nah

lots of kids don't want their food to touch or to put stuff on it.

[bayareamike]

2. "Read about celebrities who dealt with eating disorders"?

Seriously, NOTHING BUT CHICKEN NUGGETS for 15 years? WTF?

[tammywammy]

4. I'm surprised it took this long before she had health effects

No fruits or vegetables. *smh*

[hedgehog]

5. But wait - follow the links to the story and look at the girl's picture -

Her insides may be rotten, but she looks good on the outside. I thought fast food was a fast track to obesity?

[JNelson6563]

9. Looks good on the outside?

Yeah for a mother of three at age forty. Seventeen? I dunno 'bout that.

[TheWraith]

12. What the hell kind of comment is that?

You might want to check your eyes and look again, because your statement is not at all accurate.

[TheWraith]

15. If you're very sedentary, sure.

The nutritional gripe about fast food is that it has a lot of fat in it, which is completely true. If you're physically active though and burn a lot of that fat, it's not nearly as big a deal as if you're, say, a 9-5 cubicle dweller.

[redqueen]

17. Or if you just have a souped up metabolism.

Many people just do not gain weight, no matter how much they eat, and they're couch potatoes on top of it. I have known these people, and I enjoy telling them that someday it will probably slow down, so there.

[gratuitous]

6. Lil Stacey is 17, and works in a factory?

Sounds like Newt's ideas about child labor have been adopted in Europe.

[Zalatix]

11. Bingo.

[redqueen]

13. Well Reagan did pattern himself after Thatcher...

their progress was slowed by a better voting system, but they're catching up now!

[surrealAmerican]

18. I don't think that's so unusual.

Don't non-college-bound British kids finish school at age 16?

[Cleita]

30. Not necessarily.

Most Brits finish higher education at the age of 15 or 16. They go into the work force or an apprenticeship for a trade then. Many have had training for jobs while in school. Only the university bound continue in school beyond that age.

[Zalatix]

7. Nooo.... a 17 year old FACTORY worker!

Kids working in factories in a Western country?

[TheWraith]

10. Nope. Three strikes here, sorry.

It's Yahoo Health, which means it's the most alarmist thing they could think of to publish for attention.

One, it's citing one freakishly improbable circumstance in order to terrify you into thinking that it's common.

Two, it's relying on scaring people using "evil sounding" chemical names without any actual discussion of what the chemicals are, just "chemical = bad." Even though "sounding scary" isn't actually relevant to their safety. Kind of like saying that companies use cellulostic polysaccharide as a food additive, which is also a constituent of wood pulp, and often used to make glue. Statements that are completely true--except that cellulostic polysaccharide is also found in massive amounts in just about every form of vegetable, and is the most common form of dietary fiber.

Three, this "article" relies on unspecified sources for most of it's claims, and when it does link to a source, it's equally unsupported claims from people exploiting the FUD to try and sell you on their "organic" products.

[tammywammy]

14. And fourth - it originated out of the Daily Mail. n/t

[The Genealogist]

16. Here is part of the story that gets me

"Her mother, Evonne Irvine, told reporters she had gone to great lengths to try to feed her daughter more nutritious food, at one point even trying to starve the girl, but it hadn’t worked. Stacey responded that, once she started eating nuggets, she 'loved them so much they were all I would eat.'”

OK, my parents and other family members were not the best about consistently getting me to eat right, but even my most lenient relatives would have allowed this kind of a diet. What happened to "You'll sit there til you eat those vegetables?" and "That is all there is, you won't have anything til breakfast?" (ok that one is cruel if followed through on, but it was used on me as a child) and "There are starving kids in China?" What about fostering the 2 year old's palate for at least some vegetables? What kind of power does a 2 year old hold over an adult that at least some kind of an understanding about proper eating habits can't be worked out? Why is a 17 year old working in a factory in a country that is supposed to be so socially advanced?

How this person made it to 17 years old without health issues emerging before this is beyond me. Surely, when all the marks are tallied, "never in her life eaten fruit or vegetables" is hyperbole.

[Cleita]

31. How about making vegetables taste good?

Most people overcook them or get them from a can and then put a plop of butter on them that doesn't improve the taste of overcooked veggies. I got my salad hating husband to eat salads by introducing him to tasty combinations of greens and dressings that I made from scratch instead of poured out of a bottle. Even spinach can be delicious if prepared right.

[MrCoffee]

19. This whole thing sounds completely ridiculous and entirely false

Where did the photos that look almost like publicity shots of her eating McNuggets in front of McDonalds come from?

What is wrong with her mother if she admits to 1) yeah, I only fed her McNuggets; and 2) I tried to starve my daughter this one time.

"Almost nothing but fast food chicken nuggets"? I call BS.

[redqueen]

20. I'd say the same if I didn't know a kid like that.

Ate french fries, nothing but french fries, for years. His mom tried that 'you'll have it for breakfast' and the kid would just refuse to eat for days at a time, till she broke down and gave him french fries.

She said his pediatrician said it was a phase and he'd grow out of it. Maybe this young woman never did? It does seem very improbable, but... stranger things have happened.

[MrCoffee]

21. It's the pictures of her in front of McDonald's that are so mind-blowing

I'm assuming that those were taken before her hospitalization, but I could be entirely wrong there.

If they are taken before, were they some sort of promotional photo? If they were taken after, she's got a serious death-wish and needs help.

[redqueen]

25. I'm thinking after...

and maybe she's just still in the "I'm IMMORTAL!" phase of her life.

[flvegan]

23. McDonald's shill. Apologist!

How you been?

[MrCoffee]

24. Shillin' for the man, dog

Can't complain, how's life the universe and everything treating you and yours?

[Nikia]

29. My 3 year old was like that with peanut butter sandwiches for a couple of months when he was 2

Luckily he also drank juice and milk but he wouldn't eat any food accept peanut butter sandwiches. He would not eat anything all day if peanut butter sandwiches weren't offered. Not wanting my child to starve, I gave in.
Luckily, he eats a bit better now. He eats fruit, some vegetables, pasta, cereal, cheese, yogurt, cheese pizza, and chicken nuggets. He seems to be eating more rather than less. We are hopeful that someday that he will eat real chicken, other meats, and a few more types of vegetables.
Obviously, this family should have gotten help earlier, but I understand what it is like to have a kid that will only eat one thing.

[HuckleB]

22. Looks like the usual Daily Fail fiction.

[phylny]

27. I responded to the duplicate thread, but wanted to address this here.

This teenager has a feeding disorder. It's not the mother's fault. Many doctors (and others) say, just give them other food, they won't starve.

She needs a feeding clinic and therapy to desensitize her so that she can consume a better, more normal diet. I am a speech-language pathologist and work with children (mostly kids on the autism spectrum, but others too) with this same difficulty.

Please try not to judge the girl or her family too hard. Feeding disorders are serious business, and very difficult to deal with.