Posted on 07/31/2023 11:52:07 PM PDT by Morgana
A vegan raw food influencer who lived on a diet of exotic fruit has reportedly died from starvation and exhaustion.
Zhanna Samsonova, originally from Russia, had been living in South-East Asia and eating an exclusively raw vegan diet consisting of 'fruits, sunflower seed sprouts, fruit smoothies and juices' for the past five years.
However her eating habits became worryingly restrictive in the last few months of her life according to her friends.
The 40-year-old, known as Zhanna D'Art online, passed away on July 21 reportedly from a 'cholera-like infection' exacerbated by 'exhaustion of the body by a vegan diet' her mother told Russian newspaper Vechernyaya Kazan.
Zhanna's official cause of death has not yet been determined as her family try to get her body back to Russia.
The food blogger's mum Vera Samsonova told local news outlets Zhanna was supposed to fly home to Kazan on the day of her death.
Vera did not approve of her daughter's extreme diet and tried to convince her to introduce more balanced eating habits but she refused.
Speaking with Newsflash, an anonymous friend of Zhanna claimed they saw Zhanna a few months ago in Sri Lanka 'looking exhausted'.
'They sent her home to seek treatment. However, she ran away again. When I saw her in Phuket, I was horrified,' they said.
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Exactly.
But dying from cholera does not make as sensational headlines.
OTOH, if it does convince someone to NOT follow her diet because they attribute her death to that, I’m not going to complain much.
“The article didn’t say she had cholera. It said she had a “cholera-like infection”.”
In microbiological circles “Cholera like” is what they say when there are all the symptoms of Cholera without a definitive identification of the organism. In poor countries like in Southeast Asia, all they might do is look under a microscope and see a motile, comma shaped organism. If the patient only had severe diarrhea they would not have used the C-word. It tends to cause panic.
Yuck......
I think anorexia.
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You are what you eat.
She got dead by not eating a balanced diet.
Agreed. Influencer in this case is just another anorexic who got her wish. Never famous for anything but killing herself.
If we’re not supposed to eat animals, then why are they made out of meat?
And who knows if the *followers* were actually even real people.
It’s just a way of making nobodies feel important.
The cult claims another one. The Vegetarian diet takes around ten years off your life.
Good point.
One look at her and I was influenced to have a double cheeseburger and a beer.
She changed her name to Dart because she was shaped like one?
Several years ago, a respectable scientist wanted to research nutrition, specifically the nutrients available in raw food vs. cooked food. And he discovered that nutritionists had *never* done that research.
So he set himself to find out the differences between raw foods, when raw foods were mechanically processed, and when they were cooked. The difference between raw and mp foods and cooked was surprising.
He discovered that raw foods do not surrender their nutrients easily. He noted that for this reason, herbivores, like gorillas, must eat almost constantly to get the nutrition they need.
For people on a raw food diet, and most vegetarians, this almost guarantees that they are malnourished, even deprived of at least some essential nutrients. Which is typically hard to even detect until they enter a deficiency state and damage is already taking place.
People of any means in such places typically use vegetable and fruit washes to decontaminate their produce. It is common in Mexico and places further south.
And she ended up as Zhanna D’Ead. Sad, just sad. Like that guy who fell off the building he was climbing. What a waste...
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