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Girl Eats 30 Pots Of Yoghurt A Day And Nothing Else – But Is Completely Healthy

Here we are, shoveling down a balanced diet and our five-a-day and apparently eating dozens of yoghurts a day will keep you perfectly healthy

Four-year-old Emilie-Lea Hayward appears to be a medical miracle. The pint-sixed tot refuses to eat anything apart from yoghurt but is perfectly healthy.

And it’s not just the type of food she’s fussy about – she’s picky about the flavour and even the BRAND she munches. Strawberry and raspberry Petits Filous, FYI.

Emilie-Lea, four, eats nothing but yoghurts [SWNS]
Emilie-Lea, four, eats nothing but yoghurts [SWNS]



Emilie-Lea gets through an incredible 30 pots a day of the teeny tiny yogs and apparently it’s all she needs – or wants. According to her mum Naomi, 32, she won’t touch anything else. Yep, not even chocolate, sweets or ice cream.

Despite seeming healthy, each pot of the yoghurt contains a teaspoon of sugar, tallying up to mean that the four-year-old has over twice the recommended adult intake.

Not to mention it’s a costly diet. Buying branded anything adds up and 11,000 pots of Petit Filous yoghurt a year comes to over £2,000 a year.

Emilie-Lea gets through 30 yoghurts a day [SWNS]
Emilie-Lea gets through 30 yoghurts a day [SWNS]


But despite doctors claiming that Emilie-Lea’s unusual diet isn’t affecting her health or development, her mum is, understandably, very concerned.
                                                  
“She has seen paediatricians and dieticians but nobody has been able to help her and I don’t know what to do,” Naomi, who has two other children, says. “She will play with other food and touch it with her hands but she becomes hysterical if you try and feed her it.

“It’s just totally bizarre. I breastfed her and then gave her formula and then she had yoghurt but she would never take the next step.”

Naomi always thought her daughter would grow out of it, but she’s now started pre-school and still makes no sign of trying other foods.

“I have tried to get her to eat in a telling way, I've tried in a nice way, I've tried using encouragement, I've tried using other children, but nothing works.

"She just gets hysterical if you put something on a spoon and give it to her. I can't force feed her and I'm starting to think she will never grow out of it. It really has started to worry me. She is going to be starting school in September and she needs a variation in her diet.”

Naomi Hayward with her daughter Emilie-Lea [SWNS]
Naomi Hayward with her daughter Emilie-Lea [SWNS]

Naomi’s had no luck with professional help, either.

“We thought the pediatrician would be able to help but she hasn't had a case like it before. Her advice has been to just let it follow its natural course and she will grow out of it but I'm not convinced that she will.”

Nicole Rothband, a spokeswoman from the British Dietetic Association, said Emilie-Lea could be a risk of becoming “dangerously anaemic.”

She also hinted that Emilie-Lea’s diet could hint at a larger issue – such as autism.

“We do come across children who miss that really important weaning window but this is a very unusual case,” says Nicole. “She will probably get enough protein and energy from the diet and she will certainly get enough calcium. The issue would be for minerals and vitamin deficiencies.

“There is no iron in that diet whatsoever and we find children who rely exclusively on milk become dangerously anaemic. This seems more extreme than the girl just being fussy and often we find the most extreme eaters tend to be on the autistic spectrum."

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