"Rebecca Scowcroft, from Bolton, eats 15 squares of cooking chocolate and 10 chocolate fingers every morning while her family opt for a more conventional breakfast of toast, eggs and cereal.
The schoolgirl, who is in perfectly good health, eats the same for lunch and Rice Krispies for dinner - but only if they are mixed in bowl of melted chocolate.
Rebecca suffers from a condition known as extreme food phobia, which doctors estimate affects at least one child in every school in Britain.
They say that sufferers react to new foods in the same way that a normal eater would to someone putting a sheep's eye in their sandwich and forcing them to eat it.
No one is more fed up with the chocolate-only diet than Rebecca, who says it is making it difficult for her to lead a normal life.
"I don't just choose to eat that kind of stuff," she says in a forthcoming ITV1 documentary called My Child Won't Eat. "It's not because I'm being awkward. Whenever I try any food I always get scared."..."
crazy. read the rest and see the girls picture here. she's surprisingly not as overweight as i would've thought she'd be.
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