Posted on 08/16/2017 10:56:19 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Meegan Hefford, a mother of two and bodybuilder, died after an overconsumption of protein shakes, supplements and protein-rich foods.
Hefford was found unconscious in her apartment in West Australia and was quickly transported to the hospital, where she was declared brain-dead. She passed away two days later.
Hefford, who had been competing as a bodybuilder since 2014, was also ramping up her gym routine in the weeks before her death. The 25-year-old mom and paramedic trainee had put herself on a special restricted diet while she was preparing for a bodybuilding competition in September.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
The “supplements” were BCAA’s... ie; PROTEIN.
The woman didn’t use simple, common sense-as in all things in moderation-and now her nanny mother wants to regulate everyone’s purchases of supplements just because...
I’m committed to a natural lifestyle, I do take supplements and vitamins, eat unprocessed food and I work out a few times per week to keep fit and better able to do physical work without injury-and I would bet real money that this woman didn’t just die from too much protein or the ability to process it-steroids were probably heavily in the mix...
Did she eat anything else...like veggies or mostly protein?
From the article:
“Upon her death, doctors discovered Hefford had been living with a rare disorder — urea cycle disorder — which stops the body from being able to break down protein.”
Fake news. They don’t say how much protein she ate.
Read the damn article. She had a rare genetic condition. Roids had nothing to do with this, excessive (by normal standards) protein didn't...
She was trying to cut weight without losing muscle. Her genetic Urea Cycle Disorder caused her body to not flush the ammonia from her system and it killed her.
White (the deceased girl's mom) believes the supplements and shakes were purchased online where there are not enough restrictions, which she wants to end.
And this is how it goes. The girl had a disease. Protein supplements didn't kill her, the disease killed her.
Another Darwin Award nominee.
Another Darwin Award nominee.
Another Darwin Award nominee.
Protein? BS
The effects of eating truckloads of protein...
6 things you need to know about protein...
Lastly...
Indded. Urea cycle disorder, which causes a deficiency of one enzyme in the urea cycle, stops the body from breaking down protein, according to the nonprofit National Urea Cycle Disorders Foundation.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornithine_transcarbamylase_deficiency
Genetic deficiency of the urea cycle
“...Darwin Award nominee.”
Too late - she’s already reproduced - twice...
The solution to everything, eh?
The headline is so misleading. She died from a rare disease that prevents the body from processing the protien.
I loathe the media.
I read the whole damn article before I posted-I always do-I put forth the ‘roid theory because it seemed totally odd to me that someone into competitive fitness would not have experienced illness from her genetic condition when training for a competition in the past.
I’m 5’9, small frame and stay 106-107 lbs on a paleo diet of organic food, take vitamins, etc, do physical work and moderate workouts at home-I wouldn’t overload on protein or any other supplement-it just isn’t a good idea. I’m firm and muscled but not bulky-nutritional balance is still a safe way to cut weight without losing muscle-I have a neighbor and friend who is doing that right now-she has lost 20 of the 30 lbs she wants to shed in 5 months and gained muscle mass...
True, although what some bodybuilders do is probably as abusive as drugs.
The MSM broke a story on Sunday that has seriously elevated the level of stupidity, dishonesty, and hysteria in reporting — even more than it already has over the past few months of the attempted overthrow of the Trump administration.
It seems that an Australian fitness competitor died from complications occurring from an undiagnosed case of Urea Cycle Disorder, an extremely rare derangement of protein metabolism that results in toxic levels of ammonia in the blood. Being a rare genetic disorder, she had not been tested for it.
How do you think the vast majority of the world’s media created a clickbait story out of this tragic death? They lied about it.
You’ve read the headlines and listened to the newsreaders the past couple of days. With very few exceptions, the headlines and the first paragraphs said that Meegan Hefford, a “mum” of two, died from eating too much protein. In predictable lockstep, they dutifully recited the narrative: too much protein can kill you, she ate too much protein because she was a bodybuilder, and now she’s dead. Poor kids.
If her UCD was mentioned, it was way down at the bottom. But most people don’t read down that far, and most people are thus left with a reinforced impression that protein is a deadly poison. Even Rush Limbaugh — usually a thoughtful critic of such propaganda when it’s about politics — swallowed the bait.
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