Eating Too Much Bok Choy Puts 88-Year-Old Woman in Coma
Too much of any one thing is never a good thing. A daily diet of more than two pounds of raw bok choy, a vegetable used in Thai and other Asian dishes, sent an 88-year-old Chinese woman into a coma. Doctors determined that an enzyme in the uncooked produce was the culprit.
She was rushed to the emergency room of New York University’s hospital in New York City last summer after she became lethargic and lost her ability to walk and swallow for three days. She had been eating between 2 and 3 pounds of raw bok choy each day for several months, believing that it would help manage symptoms of her diabetes.
Moderation is always the key even with healthy foods. Her body couldn’t process so many stalks of the leafy vegetable, which contains an enzyme called myrosinase that, in excess, can shut down the thyroid.
Last Updated on May 21st, 2010
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