MRSA? MRDA.

[avevale_intelligencer]

Sparked off by pbristow:

We are gradually and painfully absorbing the fact that people are neither completely good, nor completely evil, and that portraying them as such in a story is less than plausible. And yet the story we are being told about our food seems, on the face of it, just that implausible. There are "good" foods (vegetables, preferably raw) and "evil" foods (just about everything else) and all the "good" foods are nothing but good for us, and all the "evil" foods keep getting more and more scary stories told about them. I've been trying to think of a health scare story linked to carrots, or cabbage, or Brussels sprouts, and I can't. Red meat, on the other hand, just keeps getting them piled on. Cancer, heart disease, strokes, gods know what all. Now medical experts are apparently saying that bacon is what has given rise to MRSA, and not hospitals at all.

Well, they would say that, wouldn't they. :)

Comments

[hrrunka]

Curiously, it is possible to eat too many carrots. A friend with an eating disorder subsisted for a while almost entirely on carrots, turned a rather unhealthy shade of yellow, and suffered from some strange liver complaint as a result.

[lexin.livejournal.com]

I had an aunt who did a very similar thing with oranges. She turned orange and got some kind of liver issue which never went right again.

I don't know any medical details about it, but it was always told to my brother and I as an Awful Warning about how it's possible to overdo anything.

And I had a university friend who got scurvy because he lived for over a year on beer and porridge. Porridge because it was the only thing he knew how to cook and beer because he was a student and preferred beer to food, even takeaways.

I don't know what happened to him in the end, but I was at least able to congratulate myself that my diet (Chinese takeaways, chips and beer) was better than his. Mine at least had some vegetables.

[stevieannie.livejournal.com]

I had a friend at college with Crohn's - he subsisted during one very prolonged flare-up on just Guinness. He was usually to be found legless (although he was *ridiculously* cute when drunk), but he survived a flare-up that the doctors thought would kill him.

Can't say I'll be trying it myself, though!