Nil-by-mouth foodie: The chef who will never eat again

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Loretta Harmes hasn't eaten or tasted food for six years, but she hasn't lost her passion for cooking

Her desperation would sometimes turn to rage and she was sectioned under the Mental Health Act three times, for a total of 18 months to stop her leaving.

Life in the units was a bleak and unrelenting cycle of weighs-ins - the first at 6am - blood tests and food.She still remembers the chart hits which would loop back around incessantly on the radio.image captionAll meals had to be finished within a set timeframe. The radio would be turned off when the time was up, and Loretta would be left staring at the food left on her plate. Tinned fruit and yoghurt or boiled vegetables with processed meat.

Most days Loretta would just curl up in a ball on a chair, trying to alleviate the pain she was in. Others read, did colouring or watched the television. One woman, who Loretta says had been in and out of these units for 13 years, would scream and scream but nobody was allowed to leave the room to escape it.

What the test showed was that Loretta's stomach is partially paralysed and cannot empty itself properly. Confining her to a secure unit and forcing her to eat had been pointless. In Loretta's case, there is damage to the connective tissue in the wall of her intestines, and as a result food travels less smoothly through her digestive system.

 

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