A Russian social media influencer who advocated a vegan diet of raw tropical fruit - with no salt, oil or protein whatsoever - has sadly died due to what doctors have described as malnutrition.
Zhanna Samsonova, who lived and worked in Southeast Asia, regularly posted about her extreme eating program on TikTok and Instagram, claiming not to have drunk water for more than six years, in favour of vegetable and fruit juices.
"I eat simple food, although I have a lot of experience as a raw food chef," she posted.
"I love creating my own recipes and inspiring people to eat healthier," she added.
Samsonova also claimed to have overcome COVID-19 simply by a regimen of "dry fasting" where she consumed nothing at all, not even water.
She proudly boasted that people were always surprised to find that despite her youthful looks she was actually approaching her 40th birthday.
Unfortunately, she never made it, with more recent posts showing her increasingly gaunt until one Russian news outlet described her as looking like a "walking skeleton".
A recent trip home to Russia was particularly difficult because the only acceptable thing she found to consume was pineapple juice, according to an entry on her personal blog.
In the end, a lack of nutrients was blamed for her demise, cascading into exhaustion and multiple infections.
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