I guess I'll be avoiding Bok Choy from now on...time to re-read that list of goitrogenic foods!
Back away from the bok choy, ma'am
JoNel Aleccia writes:
Eating extra veggies is a good goal, but an 88-year-old Chinese woman took the quest too far, consuming enough raw bok choy to send herself into a life-threatening, thyroid-induced coma, doctors say.
The woman showed up at a New York emergency room last summer, complaining she couldn't walk or swallow. But the real trouble, according to a report in Wednesday's New England Journal of Medicine, was that she'd been chowing down on 2 to 3 pounds of bok choy every day for several months in hopes of controlling her diabetes.
For those unfamiliar with the vegetable also known as Chinese white cabbage, that's the equivalent of eating two or three large heads a day of the stiff, leafy stalks.
More here:
http://bodyodd.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/05/19/4380005-back-away-from-the-bok-choy-maam/from/toolbar
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