Men's Health Australia

WHICH OF THESE FOODS MIGHT SUDDENLY KILL YOU?

MARTY SPARGO WAS IN his early 20s when a marshmallow almost killed him.

He was on holiday from university with his friends, and they’d ducked away to the beach for a bonfire with roasted jumbo marshmallows. A few minutes after he gobbled one down, Spargo began to feel funny. “My chest started getting heavy, and my heart was pounding so hard, and my vision was starting to distort,” he says. Panic set in among the group as Spargo grew dizzier and dizzier and seemed on the verge of losing consciousness. His friends frantically called the hospital, carried him to the car, and

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