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'Detox diet' woman awarded £810,000 ($1.6 Million)

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A woman was awarded more than £800,000 after she suffered permanent brain damage while on a detox diet.

Dawn Page, 52, claims she was told to drink more water and reduce her salt intake during The Amazing Hydration Diet.

The High Court was told she suffered uncontrollable vomiting after starting the diet, but nutritionist Barbara Nash assured her it was part of the detoxification process. Mrs Nash's insurance company agreed to pay out £810,000 although she denied any wrongdoing.

In October 2001 when she was less than a week into the regime, she suffered an epileptic fit and was taken to Princess Margaret Hospital in Swindon. Doctors were unable to prevent her suffering permanent brain damage and her memory, speech and concentration have been affected.

Her husband Geoff Page, 54, of Faringdon, Oxfordshire, told reporters: "Her life has been seriously affected, perhaps ruined, by this fad-type way of losing weight, which I can only say is a dangerous method of weight loss."

He said: "Just days after she started the Hydration Diet, she began to feel unwell and started vomiting. Things went from bad to worse, and within another couple of days she collapsed with the fit." Read more.