Tough 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!
Tough enough getting people to eat vegetables. Now it’s revealed that some people are actually lachanophobic — frightened of vegetables. And no wonder….
