LONDON, Jul 22, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) -- A British court has awarded $1.6
million to a woman who suffered an epileptic fit after a few weeks on a diet
that caused a sodium deficiency.
The judgment ratified by the High Court will be paid by the insurer for Barbara
Nash, a "nutritional therapist and life coach," the Daily Mail reported.
Dawn Page, who lives in Oxfordshire with her husband and son, went to Nash
looking for a diet that would make her lose weight. Nash told her to drink at
least four pints of water a day and to cut down on salt.
When Page complained of vomiting after a few days on the diet, Nash told her
that showed it was working and urged her to drink even more water and eat less
salt. Within weeks, Page suffered a massive epileptic fit that left her with
permanent brain damage.
Her husband, Geoff Page, urged women to be wary of "fad-type diets."
"She was not obese or even mildly obese but, like a lot of women, Dawn liked to
look after her weight and was not having much success with the normal ways of
doing that," he said.
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