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Is it possible to overdose on Kendal Mint Cake?
Q. Can anyone tell me whether it is possible to overdose on Kendal Mint Cake? Or, presumably, anything else very sugary?
A few years ago, I was doing the Lyke Wake Walk for the fourth time. At Hasty Bank, just before starting up Urra Moor, I left my rucksack with the support team, as usual, but this time, instead of taking a drink with me, I decided to just take a (rather large) bar of Kendal Mint Cake.
I ate the whole bar while walking along the old railway line on the way to Easklets.
A while later, as we were ascending Wheeldale Moor, heading for the lunch stop at Eller Beck Bridge, I started feeling ill. I felt cold, light-headed, nauseous and generally incapable of eating or walking. So much so, that I climbed into the minibus at that point, and slept until we reached Jugger How Moor, where I re-joined our group.
Nothing like that has ever happened to me before or since. It felt to me like the 'coming down' stage after being on a high of some sort.
Is that likely? Any similar experiences?
Peter Royle, East Sussex
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A. I think it is possible to OD on sweet stuff I did the Yorkshire Three Peaks recently and wanted to reach the top of Whernside before breaking for lunch I was sucking Glucose sweets as I walked - and came over light headede and a bit wobbly I put it down to blood sugar level (amateur diagnosis not based on real knowledge), had a sandwich, cut back on the sweets and soon felt 'normal' again
Rob Whittle, Reading
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