lachanophobic student terrified by veg

cabbagefaceTough enough getting people to eat vegetables. Now it’s revealed that some people are actually lachanophobic — frightened of vegetables.  And no wonder….
Vicki Larrieux, a 22-year-old student from Portsmouth,  according to the Daily Telegraph, claims she is unable to keep to a healthy diet because she is frightened of vegetables.

She suffers from a fear known as lachanophobia, which leaves her sweating and stricken with panic attacks at the merest sight of a sprout or a pea.

“Every time I would see vegetables not just on my plate, but anywhere I would get feelings of panic, start sweating and my heart rate would shoot up.”

She survives on meat ,potatoes, cereals — and the occasional apple. Oh No!

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About Gina Mallet

Gina Mallet is the author of Last Chance to Eat, The Fate of Taste in a Fast Food World, which won the 2005 James Beard Award for writing on food, an account of the lost world of eating. She is a former theatre critic, and now the restaurant critic for the National Post of Canada.
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