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Vegan influencer Zhanna D'Art 'dies of starvation and exhaustion' after switching to restrictive tropical fruit diet
Daily Mail UK ^ | July 31, 2023 | Louise Allingham

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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To: metmom

I personally don’t think Abel, who was killed by his vegan brother Cain, only raised sheep to shear for wool. He probably ate of the sacrifices he made to God.

Cain’s vegan sacrifices were rejected.


61 posted on 08/01/2023 7:36:24 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (“No man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.”)
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To: Morgana
It's not healthy being so lean because body fat serves as both the body's emergency supply of energy and as crucial padding for vital organs.

People like this are effectively religious zealots because they all proselytize for their unhealthy lifestyle. The mention of durian is a clear sign that this one was a wackadoodle because durian in known as the stinkiest fruit (and possibly the stinkiest food substance) in existence.

Speaking of the durian fruit, there's another wackadoodle diet evangelist who goes by the screen name Durianrider, also a bicycling enthusiast and promoter, whose screen name (obviously) is taken from his fondness for the horridly stinky fruit. Among other things, he recommends everyone eat 30 bananas a day. Thirty! Imagine what would happen to the fruit industry if the four billion adults on the planet all decided to eat 30 bananas a day.

A native Australian, Durianrider also has promoted the idea of involuntarily sterilizing the children of Australian Aborigines WITHOUT PARENTAL CONSENT.

Diet is rarely the only indication that people like these are wackadoodles.

62 posted on 08/01/2023 8:38:02 AM PDT by Paal Gulli
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To: Morgana

Russia clearly has no shortage of idiots either.


63 posted on 08/01/2023 8:56:22 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything )
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Maybe if she stayed in Russia she would still be alive.


64 posted on 08/01/2023 8:57:56 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

Maybe?


65 posted on 08/01/2023 9:00:19 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything )
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To: Brooklyn Attitude

Probably travelled, like many cute “influencers (paid for by johns)” to third world s holes and got cholera.


66 posted on 08/01/2023 10:17:17 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

The cell wall of the plants inhibit nutrient uptake.

Cooking breaks down that cell wall to enough of a degree that the nutrients inside can then be digested.


67 posted on 08/01/2023 10:31:57 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.)
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To: Brooklyn Attitude
Cholera is extremely rare in the U.S.. I wonder where she bought her fruit and if she had any migrant friends?

In the 2nd paragraph it says she was living in SE Asia. She was the migrant, as it were.

68 posted on 08/01/2023 12:53:32 PM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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