01 August 2023

• The raw food advocate had started this diet about ten years ago and would only consume exotic fruits.

Vegan influencer Zhanna D'Art real name Zhanna Samsonova is dead. The Instagram star who moved from Russia to Sri Lanka died due to a 'prolonged struggle with starvation and exhaustion, attributed to her exclusive exotic fruit diet' this is according to Hindustan Times.

The raw food advocate started this diet about ten years ago and would only consume exotic fruits, sunflower seed sprouts, fruit smoothies, and juices.

Her mother said that her daughter's health became worse due to an alleged cholera infection and malnutrition.

In one of her Instagram posts, she narrated how misinformed the human species is on nutritional empowerment.

"Over the last 10 years of my work in the field of health and nutrition, I have read and heard many claims that make me sigh with deep empathy and sadness for our human species. There is no other animal species that has as much mental and emotional potential as we do, and who at the same time uses this ability so much against itself. It has been shown time and time again that our untrained human mind is highly suggestible, very irrational under the influence of our emotions, and prone to all kinds of erroneous thinking. "

"The modern way of life has also caused us to become more disconnected from ourselves, our bodies, our food, other people, and nature as a whole than ever before. We have lost the wisdom of our inner guidance system, and rely heavily on the external world for answers about literally everything. This may have worked out okay if the external world guided us in an intelligent way that had our best interest at heart, but it doesn’t. Life on Earth as we know it, and thus most information that is provided, is predominantly governed by fear, greed, control, and manipulation. "

"This has led to a flood of misinformation and contradictory information, much of which is blatantly used to confuse and overwhelm people for a particular agenda. The field of nutrition has not been spared from this, and at a time where we should be more nutritionally empowered than every before we have greatly lost sight of what healthy eating truly means.There was a time when people knew that fruits (and vegetables) were good for us. And not just good, but some of the best, most natural, and most essential foods for us as human beings. In fact, fruits were amongst the most prized and perfect foods. These early humans, whether they lived hundreds or thousands of years ago, did not need a study to prove this.They were guided by their instinct and intuition, and paid attention to their food, their body, and clues from nature. We used to eat the way nature intended. Today, unfortunately, times have changed. We have a subset of people who try to convince others that fruits are “risky” to eat and a subset of people who believe this, and in turn fear eating fruits. Ridiculous, isn’t ?"