Brain-damaged dieter gets payout

A woman has been awarded more than £800,000 after suffering brain damage on a detox diet.
Dawn Page, 52, claimed 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 Mrs Page was less than a week into the regime when 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 Farringdon, Wiltshire, 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."
Plexus Law, representing Mrs Nash all allegations of substandard practice levelled at Mrs Nash "have always been and continue to remain firmly denied".
The firm added: "Equally the information contained in the medical records suggesting that Mrs Page appeared to have drunk five litres of water on the day that she was admitted to hospital, and therefore disregarded advice given by our client, were also denied by Mrs Page.
"In our view as a recognition of this, the settlement amount agreed to be paid was less than half the total amount claimed and the compromise which was offered and accepted was on the basis of no admission of liability."