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My strange ramen addiction: Teen eats almost nothing but noodles for 13 years.
By Tracy Miller / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Wednesday, April 10, 2013, 1:35 PM
Excerpt:
"Georgi Readman, from the Isle of Wight, UK, has an aversion to fruits and vegetables that is in line with selective eating disorder, a little-studied condition in which extreme picky eating persists into adulthood."
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" Georgi Readman of the Isle of Wight, U.K., has an extreme aversion to fruits and vegetables and subsists on the salty, preservative-laden snack. She became hooked 13 years ago and now, at age 18, claims to eat nothing but noodle packets, which her mother buys for her by the dozen.
"Readman estimates she eats 30 miles of noodles every year, and said even the thought of other foods makes her sick.
“I hate the texture of fruit and vegetables," she said. “I can’t go to my friends' for dinner or go out for meals because I don’t want them to see me freak out if the side salad touches the stuff I eat."
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"Readman's doctors said she is malnourished and has the health of an 80-year old..."
Read more at:
http://www.nydailynews.com/life-styl...icle-1.1312782
By Tracy Miller / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Wednesday, April 10, 2013, 1:35 PM
Excerpt:
"Georgi Readman, from the Isle of Wight, UK, has an aversion to fruits and vegetables that is in line with selective eating disorder, a little-studied condition in which extreme picky eating persists into adulthood."
..........
" Georgi Readman of the Isle of Wight, U.K., has an extreme aversion to fruits and vegetables and subsists on the salty, preservative-laden snack. She became hooked 13 years ago and now, at age 18, claims to eat nothing but noodle packets, which her mother buys for her by the dozen.
"Readman estimates she eats 30 miles of noodles every year, and said even the thought of other foods makes her sick.
“I hate the texture of fruit and vegetables," she said. “I can’t go to my friends' for dinner or go out for meals because I don’t want them to see me freak out if the side salad touches the stuff I eat."
..........
"Readman's doctors said she is malnourished and has the health of an 80-year old..."
Read more at:
http://www.nydailynews.com/life-styl...icle-1.1312782