Mother Who Allegedly Starved Her Daughter Was Part of a “Hunger Cult”
BlackBlueDog.com Staff
A mother who was arrested this week for starving her 16-year old, 40 pound daughter was allegedly obsessed with a doctor who says that being hungry is “wonderful.” Dr. Andrew Chung, a cardiologist who went to Emory Medical School, apparently has a strong following, where he mixes scripture with medical information and tells his followers that they should only eat two pounds of food each day, which is less than half what the average American consumes over that same time period.
Ebony Berry, who is accused of starving her daughter, Markea Blakely-Berry, is friends with Dr. Chung. Markea died this week. Police have questioned the doctor about the young woman’s death. He has a strong following, with 5,300 friends on Facebook. His self-published book is called “Be Hungry,” and is sold at Amazon.com. He also has online videos spreading his message of not eating.
“I’m wonderfully hungry. How about you?” he said during one of his videos.
“Being hungry is wonderful. The opposite of hungry, which is not hungry, is the opposite of wonderful, which is terrible,” he says.
“When we’re 10 times hungrier, doesn’t food tastes 10 times better? And when food tastes 10 tastes 10 times better, that’s wonderful, isn’t it?… It’s a mathematical principle,” he said.
But Dr. Chung won’t take the heat for what happened to this woman and her child. He says that he doesn’t advocate for starvation and that she may have been taking his advice in the wrong way.
“The only thing that can straighten this out… that (police) hear from Ms Berry herself,” he said to a local TV station.
“She’s an ordinary, single mom who’s stressed out.”
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This does not explain why she had other children who were apparently in good health and well fed.
What a LIAR! Lock up this COW and others like her. She got caught abusing a child and she is now looking for a way out.
I’m so sadden to learn Markea died this week. I remember seeing her picture a week ago and feeling hope that she is getting the nourishment needed to help her. I didn’t know she passed away until I read this article. I read about people getting off into these extreme diets or whatever cult following that is out there. To me these so-called gurus are about nothing more than gaining power or sense of leadership over weakminded and quite frankly unintelligent individuals.
This animal, that starved her child to death, should receive the death penalty, after allowing the other inmates to beat her a*s everyday.
..and Dr. Chung should be struck off the medical register for giving inappropriate and unhealthy advice.
You just have to wonder how dumb are some people. She needs to be put in jail for the rest of her life. And by the way she wasn’t starving herself. She just out right murdered her.
I am one of Dr. Chungs grateful patients, off 5 shots of insulin a day, dropped many excess pounds that were killing my heart, liver, kidneys,spleen, pancreas with cholesterol problems as well. My son and family are now on the lifestyle of eating healthy wonderfully Happy and always hungry for the correct amount! Many doctors watched as my mounting meducal bills went over $250,000 without telling me eat 32 oz’s of food a day and all your problems with your diabetes will go away! I saw Dr Chung with 3 lines not quite standing up and chest pain, that’s what he addressed for hours and then I asked him to speak with my family, he NEVER WOULD ADVOCATE STARVATION–NEVER! Emphatically I had to about double what I ate daily and the weight came off as I too was starving myself trying to keep the sugar level down.but that wasn’t the solution. The solution was the CORRECT AMOUNT 32 OZ’S! My body started clearing out the Lupus and diabetic symptoms, 9 months into it I will not go back by the grace of almighty God! My muscles were bursting like old elastic, the pain was terrible just the opposite of being wonderful, which the lifestyle change implies,” Being Wonderfully Hungry sure beats terrible pain”, shots, tearing of muscles through Lupus. Her daughter starved to death that is anything but wonderful, that is terrible, she must have had much less than 32 oz’s a day to eat or suffered from an unproperly diagnosed disease, as I did for years to the tune of $250,000 in medical debt. Her other children and herself were healthy, then the daughter should have been taken to several hospitals if she weighed only 40 lbs. If not thriving on 32 oz’s a day, then something is very wrong and emergency medical attention is needed, without healthcare many wait until too late to help even their children looks like she would have qualified for medicaid and could have taken her to a Doctor or hospital for further tests and treatment. Obviously No licensed doctor had seen her recently or her condition could have had a totally different outcome and her daughter should be alive. Mothers, not under the direction of someone else, not under the influence of some drug, should be able to reason she is doing poorly she needs to see a doctor or hospital at once! One of my sons had cold took him to walk-in clinic near mall in Gainesville, Florida, took x-rays did not give him antibiotics, previous cancer kid, I told him took off work today to bring to you since I know he’s sick, about 3 days later he had radiologist read x-ray (PNEUMONIA)He went to my previous address could not find me, had authorities look for me to take custody of son, for MEDICAL NEGLECT! That Same day I took him to hotel doctor where I worked paid all my savings for care and treatment and antibiotics same day he had seen other Doctor, he had pneumonia, so he was better when I found out authorities were looking for me! I went into the clinic on same side of road as the mall the following Saturday and asked the parents how would you like him to do this to you there is a walk-in clinic across the highway from the mall that will not do this to you and they got up and left. Took their kid to a doctor where kid might stand a chance. Huge difference in Doctors some practice because they love people, some for money , some like Holmes start out crazy, count yourself blessed indeed if you can become patient of Dr Andrew Chung , Cardiologist! When it comes to kids it’s a guessing game, she should have seen a Doctor and she might just be alive and well today. This advice did not come from Heart Doctor Andrew Chung, he’d be the first to say ” I can not give advice over phone without seeing patient, he has come to my home many times to see me and would have come to her house had someone called him! When all comes out well he would say “Laus Deo, giving the credit to God, not taking any for himself! Sorry for the loss of her child but please do not smear Dr. Chung.