A schoolgirl has to eat olive oil with everything – otherwise she could suffer from life-threatening seizures, The Daily Mail reports.
Light-weight Amy Paterson, nine, has a rare, incurable genetic condition, which means her brain can’t receive enough nourishment from a normal diet.
As a result she must consume three times as much fat as her friends and drink as much double cream or olive oil in one meal as an adult would consume in a day.
Amy manages to attend school and live a normal life, but her devoted mum Michelle and dad Allan, both 44, have to closely monitor her 1,482 calorie, six meal-a-day diet.
There are only 25 people diagnosed with the condition, known as ‘glut1 deficiency syndrome’, in the UK, with 100 sufferers in the world.
Saturday, June 23, 2012
Girl drinks double cream and pours olive oil over all her meals to stay alive
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