A woman moron nearly died after eating nothing but crisps potato chips for three years. Gina Gough, 22, was rushed to hospital with severe stomach pains after scoffing scarfing 15 packets bags a DAY. She suffered jaundice turned yaller and her weight had ballooned from 9st 126 pounds to 14st 196 pounds. Doctors first thought she had picked up the highly infectious liver disease hepatitis and sealed her in an isolation ward. But they later discovered her condition was a result of an addiction to high-fat, chemical-rich potato snacks. Gina, a nursery nurse, from Cannock, Staffs, needed four-and-a-half hours of emergency surgery to remove a massively inflamed gall bladder. It had swollen to the size of a tennis ball blowed up real good, and could have exploded at any moment. After the operation, surgeons found gall stones almost 1½in across. Talking about her crisp tater chip addiction, Gina said yesterday: “I’d start off with a packet bag for breakfast and then I’d have a second one. I wasn’t tempted by any other food.”
Gina began snacking on crisps chips after losing her job in 2000. She said: “I was depressed but felt good after crisps tater chips. “My mum Momma used to tell me that all the crisps chips I ate would make me ill but I shrugged it off. “I didn’t think anything this bad could happen to me — but I could have died assumed room temperature.” Gina insists she got high on the fat and chemical additives in the crisps chips. She is calling for health warnings on packets. Gina is now eating low-fat meals, regularly exercising and has lost more than 20lb. She said: “I used to be a very happy-go-lucky person but I started to get mood swings and became very snappy a fat bitch.”
Research by US scientists suggests fat and sugar in high quantities have a similar affect on the brain as heroin and cocaine. Dr David Haslam, chairman of the National Obesity Forum, said Gina was lucky to be alive. He added: “Crisps Potato chips should be eaten only once every couple of weeks.”
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