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 wastough 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.
“I would make him nice sandwiches and put an apple or other fruit in and he wouldn’t eat any of it. His teachers became concerned too,” she said. Instead, her son relied on a diet of eat fries, Pringles, sausages, processed ham and white bread. One might think that someone relying strictly on fried foods and ham slabs would exhibit some outward warning signs, like weight gain. Not so, said his mother.The teen, who was diagnosed with a condition called “avoidant-restrictive food intake disorder,” in which sufferers only tolerate certain foods, is now irreversibly blind and deaf.“He has no social life to speak of now.
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