Diet Was Fatal
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LONDON, May 6.
A 20-year-old British girl died because she wanted to be slim. An article in the British medical journal, the “Lancet,” reports that the girl did not eat any food for 30 weeks and lived entirely on drinks.
This reduced her weight from nearly 17 stone to 8 stone. She eventually died of heart failure. Doctors started the girl on the diet of drinks with mineral and vitamin supplements. She was perfectly healthy when she was admitted to Southampton General Hospital to start her diet. j She was kept in a special unit at the hospital throughout her fast and doctors constantly monitored all her bodily processes to ensure that they remained normal. A post-mortem examination revealed substantial changes In the girl's heart tissue, apparently due to the crash diet
Several hospitals in Britain have been successfully using total starvation to trim down extremely fat people.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31981, 7 May 1969, Page 2
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