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# Eating chicken nuggets only sickens British girl
- URL: https://www.foodconsumer.org/chicken_nuggets_0213121204/
- Published: 2012-02-13T12:53:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-22T15:59:13.000Z
- Description: A 17-year-old British girl who has eaten almost nothing but chicken nuggets since she was two collapsed at work and was hospitalized with anemia and swollen veins on her tongue. Doctors put her on emergency vitamins and warned she will die if her diet does not change.
- Author: Food Consumer
- Tags: Dining, Recipes & Dining, #vivvo-import

By Maria Cendejas

Stacey Irvine, a 17-year old British girl, severely destroyed her health after eating chicken nuggets for 15 years. Not long ago, she was rushed to the hospital after collapsing and having a very difficult time breathing, according to Natural News.

Stacey has been eating McDonald's chicken McNuggets since she was about 2 years old and has never eaten a single fruit or vegetable, which left her deficient in every single vitamin and mineral.

She fell over at work and had to be rushed to the hospital. She was found to have severely-swelled veins on her tongue, and was diagnosed with anemia. The doctors put her on an emergency vitamin regimen, and warned her that if she doesn’t change her dietary habits she will soon die.

But Stacey's addiction to fast food nuggets is so severe that she refuses to eat anything else. Evonne, Stacey's mom, has tried everything to get her daughter to eat other foods, including starving the girl at one point.

"She's been told in no uncertain terms that she'll die if she carries on like this. But she says she can't eat anything else. I'm at my wit's end. I'm praying she can be helped before it's too late," Evonne said.

McDonald's chicken McNuggets, of course, are made from a so-called food product called "mechanically separated chicken," which is created from chickens that have been "stripped down to the bone, and then 'ground up' into a chicken mash, then combined with a variety of stabilizers and preservatives, pressed into familiar shapes, breaded and deep fried, freeze dried, and then shipped to a McDonald's near you."

The story suggests that eating lots of meat but not sufficient fruits and vegetables can be dangerous.