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58岁男子罹患怪病 17年没进食只喝碳酸饮料

58-year-old Gholamreza Ardeshiri claims that the mere sight of food makes him feel sick and that he has been surviving on water and fizzy drinks like Pepsi and Coca-Cola for the last 17 years. It all started one night in 2006, when he woke up with a strange feeling in his mouth, one that he just couldn’t get rid of.

Everyone recommended a different doctor, so he went to see several of them, but no one could tell him exactly what was wrong with him. So he was advised to see a psychiatrist(精神科医生). That didn’t work very well either. In the end, he decided to shun food and has been living a perfectly normal life ever since. His family doesn’t eat in front of him, because just seeing them makes him sick, and he gets all his energy from fizzy drinks. He drinks three large bottles of soda per day and insists that he never feels hungry.

Gholamreza Ardeshiri told reporters that the first time he drank a glass of soda, he felt energetic like never before so he decided that the delicious drink would be his alternative to food. He claims that he lost 32 kilos since he started drinking soft drinks, but other than that he has had no serious health problems in the last 17 years. The 58-year-old man is fully aware of the risks of drinking a lot of sugar-rich fizzy drinks, but he claims he checks his health regularly and that he is healthy. He drinks these sugary drinks almost exclusively(完全地), claiming to drink only half a glass of water and maybe a glass of tea every week.

Ever since he started living on fizzy drinks, Gholamreza Ardeshiri has been feeling more energetic than before. He now sleeps just 4 hours a night and spends his nights watching TV and solving puzzles.