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Did Samantha Clowe die from a weight loss program?
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Samantha Clowe did not want to be a fat bride. Picture source
When it comes to losing weight people often lose more than weight. The desperate to be a thin bride mentality drove 34-year old Samantha Clowe to the LighterLife Diet.
Samantha died after 11 weeks on the diet having lost 42 pounds. She died of heart failure. The following comes from the LighterLife website:
- Fast, simple, safe and sustainable – LighterLife is more than a diet. While you’re losing weight learn what’s going on in your head so that you can keep the weight off.
- It’s our counselors that make us different.
- It's simple. Try "our soups, shakes and bars."
- It's safe. " LighterLife has been carefully put together to comply with medical recommendations on the use of this type of weight-loss programme so you can feel safe."
Samantha's diet consisted of 530 calories a day which is less than 1/3 of what if recommended for women to lose weight safely. On the Restriced Calorie Diet women are on 1200 up to 1600 calories a day! Although investigators have not concluded that the LighterLife diet caused Samantha's death how could it not? This is the second reported case in three years of this happening. And that is a reported number. It would seem that there are women on the diet who have not told anyone. Perhaps they have died and the cause i.e. this diet, has not been known. This is just speculation.
In response to her death in June of this year the following was printed on The Daily Record:
"The coroner said Samantha was clinically obese, which increased the risk of cardiac death.
"It had been suggested that there was a possible link to the diet but the coroner said it was very difficult to make such a connection.
"LighterLife is a clinically monitored programme and has helped150,000 people lose weight effectively and safely during the past 12 years.
"When she died she was still therefore clinically obese."
Dr. David Haslam, chairman of the National Obesity Forum, said "Modern very low calorie diets are a safe and proven way to lose weight and have a valuable role in the fight against obesity."
Please talk with a doctor before going on an extreme weight loss diet. Something this extreme cannot be good for the body. It takes away your needed muscle and strength and puts so much stress on the body that the end result could very well be death. Having said that Samantha did have her doctor's approval. Her doctor knew that she was eating only the food provided by LighterLife which is said to have all essential nutrients. She attended weekly group meetings and saw her doctor twice during the time on the diet.
Read more at Daily Mail
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