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Girl, 17, who has eaten nothing else since age TWO rushed to hospital after collapsing

A teenage girl who has eaten almost nothing else apart from chicken nuggets for 15 years has been warned by doctors that the junk food is killing her.

Stacey Irvine, 17, has been hooked on the treats since her mother bought her some at a McDonald’s restaurant when she was two.

Shocked doctors learned of her habit when the factory worker, from Castle Vale, Birmingham, collapsed and was taken to hospital after struggling to breathe.

Miss Irvine, who has never eaten fruit or vegetables, had swollen veins in her tongue and was found to have anaemia.

Medics gave her a series of injections and started her on an urgent course of vitamins.
But, despite being warned that she could die if she sticks to her nugget addiction, she still can’t resist the fast food.

Miss Irvine, who prefers McDonald’s treats but also enjoys KFC’s, told The Sun: ‘I am starting to realise this is really bad for me.’

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Tiny Texas District Shuts Down Sports

In sports-mad Texas, where Friday-night football is nearly as sacred as Sunday morning church services, one rural school district is taking the once-unthinkable step of shutting down its high-school sports program.

Officials in Premont, about 150 miles south of San Antonio, hope that eliminating sports this spring and next fall will save enough money to keep its struggling schools open and help keep the small ranching town alive.

The state is threatening to shut down the district, whose 570 students have performed poorly on statewide tests for years—and whose truancy rate is high. The district also has longstanding budget problems, which it says have been aggravated by recent state-wide budget cuts.

But closing the schools would mean sending students 35 miles to the nearest districts. It would also eliminate one of the biggest employers in a town of 2,600 people, where the largest tax generators are a restaurant and a gasoline station. The residents of Premont are for the most part low-income, with 80% of the student body qualifying for free lunch.

So the citizens of Premont are rallying reluctantly around the new superintendent’s last-ditch plan to buy time by suspending sports and using the money to make improvements mandated by the state.

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