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A 21-year-old woman from Austin, Texas with a rare condition that requires her to eat every 15 minutes to stay healthy has perplexed doctors worldwide, the Daily Telegraph reported.
Despite consuming 60 small meals equaling 5,000 to 8,000 calories each day, Lizzie Velasquez, 21, has zero percent body fat and weighs just 56 pounds. The communications student weighed 2 pounds, 10 ounces when she was born four weeks premature.
“I eat small portions of crisps, sweets, chocolate, pizza, chicken, cake, doughnuts, ice cream, noodles and pop tarts all day long, so I get pretty upset when people accuse me of being anorexic,” Velazquez said.
Velazquez is involved in a genetic study run by Professor Abhimanyu Garg at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. Garg now believes she could suffer from Neonatal Progeroid Syndrome (NPS), which prevents people from gaining weight and often gives their faces a triangular shape and a pinched nose. The rare disease causes accelerated aging, tissue degeneration and loss of fat from the face and body.
“We cannot predict what will happen to Lizzie in the future as the medical community are yet to document older people with NPS,” Garg said. “However Lizzie is lucky to have healthy teeth, organs and bones so the outlook is good. We will continue to study her case and learn from her.”
Previously, Velazquez’s case left doctors and genetic experts scratching their heads.
A book documenting her story, which she helped write, is scheduled for release this September.
(Source: ladyinterior)
During the presentation I kept getting distracted because the partner who didn’t know english would type into a little machine that looked like a labelmaker, then he’d look up, puzzled, and type again on the machine.
Halfway through the presentation it dawned on me that he was typing the filler into an English to Spanish translation device, and couldn’t get “Lorem ipsum dolor” to translate. I lost it halfway through the presentation. Luckily, they had a sense of humor.
the inability to auto-repair
whenever i unconsciously utter “i need someone to fix me” i always ended up slapping my own face.
i prefer to see myself as a self-sufficient lady. i’d rather not be dependent to somebody else to fix me. therefore i choose not to ask for help.
co-dependency is for losers, i don’t want to be one.
however, i always have this fear.
i’m afraid if i can’t do it. afraid that i don’t have what it takes to make it.
i’m afraid that i can’t fix myself.
