Careful, diet!
Lighter-Life diet: why did a British woman who dreamed of losing weight die?Tatiana Bateneva, "News of Science"
The death of British Jacqueline Henson was recognized as an accident. And the poor mother of five children just wanted to lose weight with the help of a fashionable extreme diet.
How many times have they told the world: there are no safe extreme diets! But come on! 40-year-old Afro-Englishwoman Jacqueline did not like herself: with a height of 170 cm, she weighed 89 kg. (Jacqueline with her then happy family in a picture from the Sky News article from 12.12.2008 “Diet Mum Killed By Too Much Water” – VM.)
My husband just liked it. But she decided to go on a super extreme diet Lighter-Life, which in English means roughly "Live light." Its creators promise that in a month you can lose up to 6.5 kg. However, the conditions are not easy.
Instead of all (!) the usual food at the meetings of teammates "Live light" consultants give out a set of "powders" – food substitutes. These are protein shakes, mousses, dry bars, balanced in basic nutrients, vitamins and trace elements. But no more than 500 kilocalories are allowed for a day. Let me remind you that only to maintain the basic functions of the body, a person on average needs at least 1000 kcal per day.
And in order for all this ersatz food to be properly digested and excreted from the body, in addition, it was necessary to drink up to 4 liters of water per day - almost half a bucket! Probably not every donkey will drink that much. And for a person, the norm of fluid intake is 2 liters per day. But that didn't stop poor Jacqueline. During the first month, she successfully lost the desired 6.5 kg, the Daily Mail newspaper writes in an article dedicated to her death. And then I went to a meeting of like-minded people again and returned home with a new set of powdered "food". I forgot about the water in my worries, and in the evening I sat down in front of the TV with two two-liter bottles of water. She drank the first one unnoticed, and when she finished the second one, she felt sick: her stomach ached, then her head, then vomiting began. Then she fell into a coma and died without regaining consciousness. Doctors found a violation of the water-electrolyte balance and swelling of the brain. Simply put, Jacqueline poisoned herself with ordinary drinking water.
The inconsolable husband Brian went to court with a lawsuit against Lighter-Life, but he was refused compensation: Jacqueline received exhaustive recommendations to drink water evenly throughout the day, and not in one gulp.
That's it, lovely ladies. There are also water therapy enthusiasts among us. Be careful: not everything that is simple is useful. Do not drink more water than normal. God knows how it might end.
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