A Girl Drinking 6 Pints of Milk A Day

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Drinking milk everyday is healthy. But drinking 6 pints of milk a day??? You must be kidding! But this is the case for 9-year old Holly Lindley. She has Glycogen Storage Disease, a rare metabolic disorder that requires her to consume 6 pints of milk a day in order to live.

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This 9-year-old girl has a serious metabolic disorder, and she's really milking it up.
Holly Lindley drinks 6 pints of milk -- each one mixed with 5 tablespoons of cornflour -- every day in order to stay alive, the Daily Mail reports.

The English girl suffers from glycogen storage disease, an inherited metabolic disorder. There are eleven known types of GSD, but in Lindley's case, the disorder prevents her from being able to use stored glucose as a form of energy, meaning that she must consume the simple sugar at frequent intervals.

'It would be easy if she drank fizzy drinks that are loaded with sugar," her mother, Karen Lindley, told the Daily Mail, "but she doesn't like them so milk it is. We get through so much in this house."
In addition to drinking the milk and cornstarch mixtures -- which her friend's call "Holly's special milk" -- throughout the day, the girl also regularly snacks on chocolate and other sweets.
"I'm sure she's the only girl at school that gets two chocolate bars in her lunch box," her mother said.
Holly Lindley isn't the only person with strange eating habits. Marla Lopez says she's gone over 50 years sustaining herself solely on white bread, potatoes and milk.

And last February, 21-year-old Kerry Trebilcock. who suffers from pica, revealed that she has eaten 4,000 sponges and over 100 bars of soap over the past few years.