Top 10 Junk Food-Related Deaths

Talk to any nutritionist, dietitian, trainer, or anyone with their head screwed on when it comes to health and nutrition, and you’ll get a pretty comprehensive view that junk food is not good. Period.

But if it only makes up a small portion of your overall diet, because you only enjoy the odd few fast food meals, it’s unlikely you’re really going to see any adverse effects from your occasional indulgences.

Direct Junk Food Deaths

Natasha Harris – Coke

After drinking two gallons of coke every day for two years straight, Natasha Harris sadly met her end from a heart attack in 2010. This coke consumption totaled a whopping two pounds of coke and one gram of pure caffeine every day. Such a huge sugary beverage consumption like this can easily lead to arrhythmia, an enlarged liver, and fat deposits in the arteries, eventually leading to a blood flow blockage to the heart. Natasha died from drinking coke. Don't be like Natasha.

Adam Deeley – Cup Cakes

Don't worry; most people won't die from eating cup cakes. This case is an extreme scenario. This was an eating contest that went horribly wrong. In 2008, Welsh student Adam Deeley joined a cup cake eating contest in a bar. In his efforts to claim the prize, he stuffed his mouth with so many of the little treats that he choked and suffered a fatal heart attack.

Scott Martins – Carbs

Maybe Dr. Atkins was right – carbs are the dietary devil.

Since childhood, Martins ate a diet obscenely high in carbohydrates – beans on toast, candy bars, chips and fries were his staples. Vegetables, lean meats and healthy fats certainly weren't. 20 years of this led Martins to develop hepatitis, a liver dangerous inflammation that isn't, as you see here, always viral in nature. His blood couldn't clot properly, and he died as a result of excessive blood loss through his gums during a dental procedure.

Unnamed Teen – Pancakes

A 19 year old couldn't get enough of pancakes, even when he thought they tasted slightly funny. It turned out the pancakes in question were over two years past their expiration date, had gone moldy, and the teen suffered an allergic reaction, meaning his lungs and larynx filled with mucus. Expired pancakes definitely take "junk" food to a whole other level. Don't forge tto check the expiration date!

Noah Akers – Hot Dog

Noah suffered from diabetes and childhood obesity, but these didn’t kill him directly. He died as a result of choking on a hot dog in an eating competition, which had the prize of a candy bar.

Whether or not these deaths were in fact directly caused by junk food is up for debate, as there could also have been numerous underlying causes playing a part. What is certain however, is that junk food played a role in all these tragedies, and that a culture that embraces fast food as a dietary choice contributed to t.

Slightly less bizarre is the complete truth that a high consumption of junk food does play a significant part in many cases of obesity, diabetes, stroke and heart disease. These deaths may not have the strangeness factor attached, but they’re still just as traumatizing.