Teen Goes Deaf and Blind After Eating Nothing But Processed Foods
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When I was kid, my father was fond of telling me that failing to eat every one of the vegetables my mom put in front of me at dinner would result in scurvy. It didn’t take long for me to learn that scurvy is, in fact, a vitamin C deficiency that was pretty tough to get in my home in the 1990s, a place where oranges basically fell into your mouth if you left it hanging open long enough. If he really wanted to scare me, he should have told me this story of a kid who went blind and deaf after eating nothing but sausages, chips and french fries for basically his entire life!
The Independent reports that a 19-year-old English teen suffers from a severely damaged optic nerve, among other problems, after apparently abandoning every even remotely healthy food around the age of 7. His mother, who was not identified, said she started suspecting problems when he’d come home from school with the lunch she packed him untouched.