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15 Terrifying Eating Habits Of Real People. Don’t Try Them

15 Terrifying Eating Habits Of Real People. Don’t Try Them

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You might be too hard on yourself about your coffee habit. Here are some stories of truly terrifying and extreme eating habits that you definitely don’t want to try at home. Some of them have been fatal. Others are just plain surprising and fly in the face of conventional wisdom. Either way, these are 15 terrifying eating habits of real people.

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Starbucks groceries, anyone?

One Seattle woman ate only food that came from Starbucks every day during 2013. Her “challenge” allowed for foods from Starbucks-inspired stores too, such as Tazo Tea and Evolution Fresh. The woman spent between $500 and $600 a month on food. The coffee fiend’s reasoning for doing this? Simply that she likes setting odd challenges for herself. One year, she bought everything for herself, and her family, from Goodwill.

Source: Usatoday.com

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Feeding tube for the big day

One Florida bride-to-be ate through a feeding tube that was fed through her nose into her stomach for eight days in order to lose weight for her wedding. The procedure was observed by a doctor, and cost $1,500. The tube delivered 800 carbohydrate-free calories per day.

Source: Time.com

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Coke and cigarettes diet

After a 30-year-old New Zealand mother died, coroners said her diet of nearly two gallons of Coca Cola per day were partly to blame. The woman’s family admits drinking a Coca Cola was the first thing she would do in the morning and the last thing she would do at night. She also smoked around 30 cigarettes a day, and died of a condition in which the heart beats too fast or too slow.

Source: Newser.com 

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Booze for Lent

One 46-year-old man from Iowa decided to copy a group of ancient German monks and had nothing but water and beer for Lent. During the week, the man had four beers a day and during the weekend, five beers a day. After consulting a pastor and doctor, he decided the best way to break the fast was with a bacon smoothie.

Source: Orlandosentinel.com 

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Lose the baby weight with Red Bull

After giving birth, a 23-year-old New Zealand woman didn’t have the patience to lose weight through normal diet and exercise. Instead, she had almost nothing but Red Bull for eight months. The woman says the drink worked as an appetite suppressant, and she drank up to 14 cans a day. She allowed herself a handful of dry cereal here and there, but that was it. She eventually had a heart attack and went on a Weight Watchers diet, but she still has lingering health problems from her Red Bull habit.

Source: Austriantimes.at

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The pizza and raisin bran plan

A man from Maryland recently gained Internet fame for his diet of nothing but pizza for 25 years. The man says he occasionally eats raisin bran “to eat healthy,” but other than that, it’s nothing but a 14-inch cheese pizza daily. The pizza-gourmand does have diabetes, but other than that, no health complications. He says he turned to pizza when he became a vegetarian, and realized it was the only meat-free option he really liked.

Source: Today.com

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A vegan baby

Advocates for veganism argue that we only need milk as babies, when we need the immense amount of calories and nutrients to grow quickly, but as adults we don’t need dairy products. A set of vegan parents from France forgot that we need milk as babies. The couple faced life sentences in prison after their 11-month-old died of nutrition deficiencies. Her parents refused to feed her animal products including milk.

Source: Dailymail.co.uk

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Cutting calories with Twinkies

A professor of human nutrition wanted to prove that there is no such thing as good and bad calories when it comes to losing weight, so he ate a Twinkie every three hours for 10 weeks, with some other Hostess and Little Debbie snacks thrown in. He wanted to show that calorie counting, and not the nutritional content of the food, is what causes weight loss. He limited himself to 1,800 calories a day and lost 27 pounds. Oddly enough, his cholesterol and other health factors did not suffer — in fact, they improved.

Source: Cnn.com 

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Real chocoholic

In 2008, a report stated that a 12-year-old girl had eaten nothing but chocolate her entire life because she suffers from extreme food phobia, which is essentially a terror of trying new foods. The girl reportedly ate 15 squares of cooking chocolate and 10 chocolate “fingers” at every meal. She was reportedly in perfect health.

Source: Telegraph.co.uk

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Nothing but nuggets

In 2012, a 17-year-old girl collapsed and was rushed to the hospital. Reportedly she had eaten nothing but chicken nuggets since the age of 2. The only other food she sometimes had was fries. The girl had developed anemia — insufficient healthy red blood cells to provide oxygen to body tissues — and inflamed veins on her tongue.

Source: Dailymail.co.uk 

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Let the worm do the work

Selling tapeworm eggs is illegal in the U.S. today, but the worm eggs can allegedly still be ordered from other countries. The diet involves eating a worm egg, which then hatches in your digestive tract. The worm essentially eats all your food, so you don’t absorb nutrients, and after a few months, you can go to a doctor who’ll give you anti-parasitic pills to kill the worm. The worm does then, however, need to pass through your body. Don’t try it. People have died!

Source: Today.com

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Pregnant woman’s urine for breakfast

A diet known as the HCG Protocol has been around since the 1950s and involves having a 500-calorie diet, combined with injections of human chorionic gonadatropin (that’s where the diet gets its name.) What is HCG? It’s a hormone produced in human placenta extracted from the urine of pregnant women. People on the diet inject it into themselves.

Source: Completehealing.net

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Burgers, pizza and toast, oh my!

A 21-year-old in the U.K. ate the following diet every day for 16 years: toast for breakfast, a large pizza for lunch, and a cheeseburger for dinner. The woman said healthy food made her sick. She had to go into a different room when her mother cooked. Her phobia of such foods began when she developed acid reflux as a girl. The only food that didn’t aggravate her symptoms was chips. Somehow, she was reported to be healthy at 5 feet 8 inches and 138 pounds.

Source: Medicaldaily.com

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The Olive Garden Challenge

If you’re wondering, somebody took advantage of the $100, all-you-can-eat-for-seven-weeks certificate Olive Garden was handing out. A North Carolina man ate at Olive Garden twice a day, every day, for six weeks. When he was interviewed, the man had eaten 100 meals at Olive Garden and was working his way through the 150 pasta combinations. He said the quality of the food is always great, and he makes a point of taking food home to eat with his family when he can.

Source: Nypost.com 

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McDonalds helps man lose 56 pounds

An Iowa teacher ate only from McDonald’s for six months and lost 56 pounds, lowering his bad cholesterol and taking 21 inches off his chest. He said during his “diet” he was looking forward to eating asparagus, rice and seafood. For his diet, the McDonalds loyalist ate 2,000 calories per day, and fell out of the “obese” category.

Source: Today.com