Extreme Chocolate Eater
Posted on: November 6, 2008
Is diamond a girl’s best friend? Apparently not. Rebecca Scowcroft, a 12 years old from Bolton, England, has eaten nothing but chocolate her whole life. She suffers from a condition that doctors refer to as extreme food phobia, also known as sitophobia. Sufferers have fear for food or eating and would only turn to a certain food they trust to eat. Doctors say that sufferers react to new foods in the same way that a normal eater would to someone putting a human hand in their sandwich and forcing them to eat it. This condition affects at least one child in every school in Britain. In Rebecca’s case, she only eats chocolate because she is extremely scared of any other food since she thinks that it would poison her. As we could imagine, she is finding it difficult for her to lead a normal life because she has been eating the same thing for her whole life. Fortunately, she is in perfectly good health. Although there are medications sufferers can take but they have really bad side effects and often end up in severe consequences.
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