"DEAD AT 20 .. THE BOY WHO ONLY ATE CHIPS AND TOAST"

The boy ate grains, beans and potatoes, and little or no meat, and low
fat. And he died. Tragic.

Now what do we do with all these studies that villify fats and meats
and hold vegetarian plant-based diets holy?

TC

Enrico C said:

A British newspaper reports:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=16592947&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=dead-at-20----the-boy-who-only-ate-chips-and-toast--name_page.html

17 January 2006

DEAD AT 20 .. THE BOY WHO ONLY ATE CHIPS AND TOAST

SCOTT KILLED BY JUNK DIET

By Jeremy Armstrong

SCOTT Martin's distraught mum Margaret told how she desperately tried
to wean her son off his fatal diet of chips, toast and baked beans.

The 56-year-old said he even defied medical experts to keep up his
love of junk food. The bizarre diet led to his death at 20 from liver
disease and bleeding caused by malnutrition.

Margaret added: "He was fine when he was younger. I could get him to
eat properly. But as he grew older he ended up with just toast, beans,
chips and the odd tin of spaghetti. He hardly ate any fruit."

Scott's diet was so bad it caused liver cirrhosis - a condition
normally associated with heavy drinkers.

He was told a transplant could save him but he was too frightened to
have the operation and carried on eating his favourite McDonald's
French fries, sliced white bread and tinned beans, all high in salt.

Scott developed auto-immune hepatitis - where the body's own defence
system attacks the liver - which caused thinning of the blood.

The condition got so bad that when he needed three infected teeth
removed he was warned he could bleed to death or die from the
infection. He had the extraction but surgeons could not stop the
bleeding and his heartbroken family could only watch helplessly as his
life ebbed away.

Scott's sister Gail Fairweather helped care for him in his final
months when he was so weak he was confined to a wheelchair.

The mum-of-six said: "In a short time he had gone from being a normal
fit, healthy lad to someone who could barely get across the room.
Scott began to feel ill last year. In May he was seen by doctors,
suffering what we thought was the flu.

"He was tired all the time and could not walk far. He would get out of
breath quickly. The doctors sent him to see a specialist.

"The specialist found he had cirrhosis of the liver. We were baffled
because Scott was not a drinker. He did not go to pubs, he was a real
home boy. But we found out cirrhosis could be caused by bad diet and
malnutrition.

"There were only a few things he would eat, McDonald's chips were his
favourite.

"He would eat toast but only from sliced white Danish bread with a
thin spreading of Lurpak butter. He would eat baked beans but only now
and then.

"He was always like that, from when he was little. Finding stuff he'd
eat was a struggle."

Childminder Gail, 32, said Scott was terrified of having a transplant
and decided to go on medication, against the advice of doctors. She
added: "He would not consent to one.

"The medication was not making him any better. He get very weak. For
the last six months of his life he was in a wheelchair.

"He saw a dietician and she gave him loads of nutritional drinks but
he did not like them."

Scott, who lived with his mum and two sisters in Whitburn, Sunderland,
was buried last week. Margaret said: "The hardest thing is that he was
so young. I feel I have been robbed of my little boy. He just did not
deserve to die like that. It was terrible."

Patrick Holford, founder of The Institute for Optimum Nutrition, said
Scott's diet was "a recipe for death".

He added: "A processed and refined foods diet can lead to an early
grave. Young people are at a vital stage where a good diet is a must."

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Sounds like he didn't eat much in the way of plant foods. The "chips"
he liked to eat that came from McDonald's must have been loaded in
TFAs. Add to that the white bread. Beans were the best part of this
horribly deficient diet! No wonder he died.

Rob

Rob said:

Sounds like he didn't eat much in the way of plant foods. The "chips"
he liked to eat that came from McDonald's must have been loaded in
TFAs. Add to that the white bread. Beans were the best part of this
horribly deficient diet! No wonder he died.

Rob

POTATO chips are from a *plant* called the potato *plant*. Fried in
*vegetable* oil, from *plants*. White bread is made of wheat grains
from the wheat *plant*. Beans grow on bean *plants*. Sounds like all he
ate was from *plants*. Hence plant sourced foods.

The only non plant source food would be the admittedly minute amount of
real butter that he had on his bread. If he had eaten more butter, he
might have lived a while longer.

TC

So he ate three plants. Beans, potatoes and grains. Refined grains at
that. Hardly the type of plant-based diet veggies talk about. Guess I
should have used the word "variety", eh?

Rob

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TC said:

Rob said:

Sounds like he didn't eat much in the way of plant foods. The "chips"
he liked to eat that came from McDonald's must have been loaded in
TFAs. Add to that the white bread. Beans were the best part of this
horribly deficient diet! No wonder he died.

Rob

POTATO chips are from a *plant* called the potato *plant*. Fried in
*vegetable* oil, from *plants*. White bread is made of wheat grains
from the wheat *plant*. Beans grow on bean *plants*. Sounds like all he
ate was from *plants*. Hence plant sourced foods.

The only non plant source food would be the admittedly minute amount of
real butter that he had on his bread. If he had eaten more butter, he
might have lived a while longer.

TC

You're joking, right?

He was starved for usable protein.

Susan

Quoted message said:

You're joking, right?

Joking about .... what? That he ate a crappy diet with no variety?

Quoted message said:

He was starved for usable protein.

Really? No [censored]! Man, I'm glad you straightened *that* out.

Rob

Susan said:

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TC said:

Rob said:

Sounds like he didn't eat much in the way of plant foods. The "chips"
he liked to eat that came from McDonald's must have been loaded in
TFAs. Add to that the white bread. Beans were the best part of this
horribly deficient diet! No wonder he died.

Rob

POTATO chips are from a *plant* called the potato *plant*. Fried in
*vegetable* oil, from *plants*. White bread is made of wheat grains
from the wheat *plant*. Beans grow on bean *plants*. Sounds like all he
ate was from *plants*. Hence plant sourced foods.

The only non plant source food would be the admittedly minute amount of
real butter that he had on his bread. If he had eaten more butter, he
might have lived a while longer.

TC

You're joking, right?

He was starved for usable protein.

Susan

Sure.

And usable fat. We do need fat. Several animal sourced fats are
essential. But you knew that right?

TC

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Quoted message said:

So he ate three plants. Beans, potatoes and grains. Refined grains at
that. Hardly the type of plant-based diet veggies talk about. Guess I
should have used the word "variety", eh?

Rob

Eh? The only thing refined is the bread, no?

Now I get to ask ... are YOU kidding?

Bread was a major part of this "diet". The *only* thing? LOL.

Rob

Uh, yes TC I knew that. Why do you ask? You making assumptions? You
know you should never do that TC.

Rob

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TC said:

Sure.

And usable fat. We do need fat. Several animal sourced fats are
essential. But you knew that right?

TC

If he ate chips, he ate fat. Crappy fat, but fat nonetheless.

Susan

Quoted message said:

"The specialist found he had cirrhosis of the liver. We were baffled
because Scott was not a drinker. He did not go to pubs, he was a real
home boy. But we found out cirrhosis could be caused by bad diet and
malnutrition.

"There were only a few things he would eat, McDonald's chips were his
favourite.

[...]

By the way: "chronic liver diseases and cirrhosis still ranks fourth
as the leading disease-related cause of death for Americans between
the ages of 25 and 44."
http://www.liverfoundation.org/db/articles/1022

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Quoted message said:

POTATO chips are from a *plant* called the potato *plant*. Fried in
*vegetable* oil, from *plants*. White bread is made of wheat grains
from the wheat *plant*. Beans grow on bean *plants*. Sounds like all
he
ate was from *plants*. Hence plant sourced foods.

The only non plant source food would be the admittedly minute amount
of
real butter that he had on his bread. If he had eaten more butter, he
might have lived a while longer.

TC

You're joking, right?

The sad part, he is sincere.

Quoted message said:

He was starved for usable protein.

He was starved of just about everything. To claim he died on a
vegetarian diet is classic TC BS! To borrow from Larry W, he is a diet
nazi and a poor one at that.

I was watching the idiot box last night and I saw Kraft tying their
purse strings to the South Beach diet. Move over LC SB is the new fad
diet. When will the TC's of SB rear their head and start spouting from
their text or support group.

-DF

If the mother had not kept these things in the house he would not have
eaten them. Obviously he was not employed and had no money to pop over
to McDonalds and buy french fries. What were the rest of the family
eating I wonder? This is an unbelievable story.

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TC said:

Rob said:

Sounds like he didn't eat much in the way of plant foods. The "chips"
he liked to eat that came from McDonald's must have been loaded in
TFAs. Add to that the white bread. Beans were the best part of this
horribly deficient diet! No wonder he died.

Rob

POTATO chips are from a *plant* called the potato *plant*. Fried in
*vegetable* oil, from *plants*. White bread is made of wheat grains
from the wheat *plant*. Beans grow on bean *plants*. Sounds like all he
ate was from *plants*. Hence plant sourced foods.

The only non plant source food would be the admittedly minute amount of
real butter that he had on his bread. If he had eaten more butter, he
might have lived a while longer.

TC

You're joking, right?

He was starved for usable protein.

Susan

Well to be fair a lot of vegans claim that "usable protein" isn't true. So
his point still stands in a sense.

Susan said:

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TC said:

Sure.

And usable fat. We do need fat. Several animal sourced fats are
essential. But you knew that right?

TC

If he ate chips, he ate fat. Crappy fat, but fat nonetheless.

Susan

Vegetable fats. Chip makers stopped using animal fats years ago to
placate those who claimed that saturated animal fats were causing heart
disease. They replaced them with vegetable fats. And the rest is
history.

TC

Enrico C said:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=16592947&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=dead-at-20----the-boy-who-only-ate-chips-and-toast--name_page.html

17 January 2006

DEAD AT 20 .. THE BOY WHO ONLY ATE CHIPS AND TOAST

That would make an interesting case-study, that documents the Western
concept of the Mind-Body Connection.
http://naturalhealthperspective.com/resilience/mind-body-connection.html

The body affects the mind. The mind in turn affects the body. And,
now the 20 year old is dead.

Of course, if the Mother simply had kicked the lazy [censored] out of the
house 2 or 3 years ago he would have been forced to eat normally.

Us baby-boomers started out life eating a healthy diet. The know-it
all generation X and Y grew up on a junk food diet. What will they do
in old age? Will they even make it past the age of 20?

You have my condolences, generation Y.