A VEGAN influencer is feared to have died of starvation after attempting to live on a fruit only diet. Zhanna Samsonova, 39, previously told how she spent four years eating and drinking just fruits…
You missed an important part of the headline “is feared to have…”
It says she caught a “cholera like” infection
Yeah. It’s The Sun and they put ‘dies of starvation’ in quotes. They are presenting rumors as facts (again).
Ah, thank you. Was very confused and I am relieved to find that eating food of any kind still does not cause the body to starve. Although honestly, in this damn timeline, i would just shrug at this point
I am relieved to find that eating food of any kind still does not cause the body to starve.
Except it does when you eat nothing but carbs and fiber with little to no fat and protein. You can be vegan all you want, but ignoring basic nutrition will always result in disaster.
Not sure what you’re implying; there are many fruits with fat and protein. Or do you just mean in the context of the comment you quoted?
It might be possible to live off fruit, but in the end, “food restriction resulting in significantly low body weight” is the definition of anorexia.
I don’t claim to know if she put her health in a compromised state or not, but look at recent pictures.
You can’t get all the nutrients needed from just fruit. This is fact. Just because some fruits may have some fats and proteins doesn’t mean they have enough to meet nutritional needs.
Ah, moving the goalposts now. You didn’t say nutrients before; you said “fat and protein” specifically.
A major part of their “nutrients” point is fats and proteins, read the last reply again.
Just because some fruits may have some fats and proteins doesn’t mean they have enough to meet nutritional needs.
A VEGAN influencer. Thanks for making that really clear.
this has nothing to do with being vegan. please stop.
She was a vegan promoting vegan diet online. How does that ‘have nothing to do with being a vegan’? what?!
Any vegan with half a brain knows that you need more than just fruit to be healthy. Assuming her death by infection is a result of her diet (which is possible, but we don’t know that), she died of being an idiot, not a vegan.
If she starved or died due to complications from her diet, if she wasn’t able to stave off an infection for example or recover properly from an illness that would not affect an otherwise healthy individual - I would say her diet or nutrition lifestyle is germane to the situation.
I believe that being vegan is a perfectly valid lifestyle and dietary choice but also people should be aware of some of the pitfalls.
Can you please elaborate why you feel that being vegan has nothing to do with it?
Because the overwhelming majority of vegans aren’t eating nothing but fruit? Come on dude you can’t actually be this dense.
This has absolutely nothing to do with veganism.
