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Avoid ‘savage’ dieting, cautions top doctor over Warne’s death

Fiona Carruthers
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A top emergency medicine specialist has warned people not to try liquid-only diets and other extreme weight-loss measures, explaining if the late Shane Warne had been on a gruelling fasting regime, it could have triggered his suspected heart attack.

“If Shane Warne was on a very strict diet, that could have interfered with the electrolytes in his blood,” Sydney-based Professor Gordian Fulde told The Australian Financial Review on Sunday.

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Fiona Carruthers has written and edited travel for the Financial Review for almost a decade. She has held senior roles with ABC Radio National, Deutsche Welle Radio, TIME and The Australian, and was deputy editor of Traveller. Email Fiona at fcarruthers@afr.com

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