http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-13494772,00.html

:-/ This is right by where i live.

You would think at 20 they would know better.

That's weird. Maybe there were some other health issues going on?

Tons of people in their early 20s live off from junk food and booze too.

His mother said: "He did not deserve to die like that. It was terrible."
The curmudgeon in me wants to say, "Of he course he deserved it! He had three opportunities a day to do better and he didn't!" :notvegan:
Is the curmudgeon in me evil? :evil:

It's interesting to note that the article does not suggest in any way that he died from eating a vegetarian diet, which is a refreshing change.

The curmudgeon in me wants to say, "Of he course he deserved it! He had three opportunities a day to do better and he didn't!" :notvegan:
Is the curmudgeon in me evil? :evil:



It's cold hearted.

Is that really a trustworthy website? It smacked of tabloidism to me.

I read the article and was disturbed by the lack of comments from any medical professional. It says that the kid had an auto-immune hepatitis. Was this the result of his diet? I doubt it. More likely his diet did not help his condition and probably hurt it, but did the diet kill him. More likely his liver condition did and he just added some fuel to the fire. Perhaps the headline should have read “yet another person dies as the result of not following medical advice”. Well that might be too long but you get my point.

From what I know Hep doesn't usually come from diet, but then I'm not a nutritionist either.

I would think there had to be other issues involved. Maybe he needed medication to help with depression or some other mental disorder. Very sad.

The curmudgeon in me wants to say, "Of he course he deserved it! He had three opportunities a day to do better and he didn't!"

Just because he may have caused his own death doesn't mean he deserved to die. Do people who kill themselves deserve to die?

From what I know Hep doesn't usually come from diet, but then I'm not a nutritionist either.

They said it was "autoimmune" hepatitis (which I've never heard of), so...

I wonder the same as Marie...I knew lots of kids in college who lived on KEE-RAP. While I'm sure it affected their health (and would have more so in the long term), it's hard for me to imagine that they were risking such an early death by doing so...

I like chips and beans... but not every day. Toast everyday though.
I went on a date with a man once who had a Mars bar and chips with tomato sauce in a late night cafe, he said he often did.

Autoimmune hepatitis (http://www.webmd.com/hw/health_guide_atoz/d40135259.asp).

Magnus had a good point about lack of commentary from medical professionals in the article. If he had this serious condition, surely the doctor or specialist who treated him would know more about the relationship between the disorder and his diet. Now, whether that doctor would talk to news media about it is a different story. I'm not sure what the UK's doctor-patient privacy laws are.

I did a bit of looking up, and autoimmune hepatitis isn't caused by poor diet. Seems there's genetic predisposition to it, and it will lead to bad things with his liver. A diet that was really high in salt (that they mention in the article) wouldn't have helped that. Seems that it wasn't junk food so much as was the salt in the junk food.

I spent some time looking at autoimmune Hepatitis on-line and found what I think to be something interesting. Under symptoms of the illness they do not cite thinning of the blood. The article cites that he bled to death after having teeth removed.

With liver issues I can imagine that they would want him to limit his salt intake since it is processed through the liver but to say that his diet killed him is WAY off the mark.