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“It Was Horrific”: 16 Examples Of Incredibly Unhealthy Things Folks Have Seen Other People Do
Article created by: Monika Pašukonytė
Most people don’t take their health seriously until they’re forced to visit a doctor. Mental and physical wellness are so important and require a lot of care and attention. Even the tiniest positive actions all add up toward fitness, but sometimes folks forget or get off track and may end up doing even unhealthier things.
This list is full of the most destructive things people have done to their bodies. Although most of us might have done milder versions of some of these things, it’s a stark reminder that health is wealth.
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#1
Saw a guy chase 6 energy drinks with a cigarette and call it breakfast while saying sleep is a scam. I’m convinced his organs have a group chat to plan their escape.
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#2
I was behind a person in a drive-thru once. She was in an SUV and it sagged on the driver’s side. Half-expected the suspension to break.
She ordered a “medium ranch dressing.”
The person taking the order was understandably confused so the lady figured it would help to scream her order. Finally she said “a medium drink cup filled with ranch dressing.”
She pulled over to the side after she got her food. I passed her on my way out, and she was taking a huge bite of her burger and drinking the ranch as a chaser. Like it was actually her beverage.
I have not eaten ranch dressing to this day.
#4
I have a friend who only eats pepperoni pizza for every meal and drinks Diet Pepsi. Man has not had water in 10 years.
#5
I worked at Starbucks in college. We had a morbidly obese woman come through the drivethrough every weekday morning.
Her order-
Venti 6 shot white chocolate mocha with 11 pumps of syrup, whole milk, coat the inside of the cup with caramel sauce, whipped cream.
I believe we calculated it to about 1500 calories.
EDIT: friend found a calorie calculator on Starbucks and this is actually closer to 600 calories. Not sure if the syrup formulas have changed, our original calculations were wrong, or maybe she was coming through a couple times a day and I only saw her in the morning. 1500 calories is still stuck in my head. Still not healthy. I seem to remember her getting patries, too, so maybe that was it. I dunno. I'm old, my memory ain't what it used to be.
#6
I had a patient once get an infection in a very small surgical wound that started out as 1cm wide.
Well, he knew something was wrong but didn't get it checked out until he couldn't lay on his back anymore.
He had a flesh eating bacteria called necrotizing fasciitis that ended up eating his skin from the middle of his thighs all the way up to his middle back.
It was so bad that when he came into the hospital he was given about a 30% chance of surviving. I'll never forget that smell.
#7
Setting a bag of pork rinds and a 2 liter bottle of Pepsi on the nightstand so her toddler kids wouldn't wake her up for food in the mornings.
(And lectured me about working, rather than collecting welfare and staying home with my teenaged kids after their dad died.).
#8
There is a place in vegas called the heart attack grill, where customers over 350 pounds eat free. They serve burgers up to 64 oz. If you don't finish you are paddled by a nurse, Then escorted to your car in a wheelchair by your own private nurse
#11
Someone with such unmanaged diabetes that they have had 6+ surgeries removing toe after toe, chunk of foot after chunk of foot. she has stubs for feet now, no toes. and she continues to eat sweets and fast food. she’s basically immobile now unless she has special shoes on and uses a walker, which she usually chooses not to use. she sleeps sitting up on her couch. her adult children provide all of the sweets and food for her because “she is her own person, if she wants it, she can have it.”
eta: she had a quad bypass a year and a half ago, and multiple people brought her cookies and jams in the hospital.
#12
As a toddler my grandmother babysat me every day while my parents worked, this was in the 90's. I wasn't given juice or milk, just regular pepsi, all day every day. So I of course started having panic attacks at age 4.
#13
Wouldn't say it's the worst thing I've seen but..
A girl around 22 i worked with for about 2 years said she has only drank coffee and caffeinated drinks for a good 10+years, never drank water because she didn't like it for some reason.
Complained often about having headaches, stomach pain, joint pain, overweight, eye issues and various other issues.
Kept on her for the duration of me working there and towards the last 6 months of being there, i noticed she had a half gallon water jug and asked her why the sudden change?
Said she went to the doctor the other day and told me all of the things the doctor said to change .. namely quit caffeine and drink/eat healthier.
By the time i left, she lost a good amount of weight and basically never complained about the issues said earlier.
Another one i witnessed was from an ex girlfriend, she had been drinking well over a 12 pack of Mountain Dew with minimal water a day for around 10 years. Doctor told her she was forming a hole in her stomach from the excess soda drinking... Never stopped her though.
#14
I once knew someone who lived on only energy drinks, instant noodles and cigarettes for months. Barley slept, constantly stressed and refused to go to the doctor even when they where clearly crashing. It was like a slow motion train wreck😔.
#15
I have a friend who just like consistently has bug infestations in her apartment, no matter where she lives.
#16
Deep fried stick of butter.
America, you are something.
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