And of course, the same thing could have happened if she exercised...and often does. The diet wasn't the cause of death.
It's interesting to read this very good comment from a GP Dr Martin Scurr
"As a short-term measure for helping people kick-start weight loss, I'm a big fan of commercial diets, even crash diets such as LL. "
and
"That is why the tragic death of Samantha Clowe seems unlikely to be the fault of the diet itself, but was down to some other problem. And as the Coroner indicated, this was probably due to her heart."
It's so easy to blame the diet, yet I never hear scare stories about people warning against exercise, even though there has been many more cases of this happening with physical exercise than with the doing diets such as these.
So sad though. Tragic