suze_c:

I think you are saying "hey, bonehead, *I* eat a high-protein diet!". But lean meats, cheese, and eggs is hardly a high-protein, low-fat diet. Your egg, for instance, can be up to 70% fat. Even lean sirloin is over 40% fat by calories. Cheese, of course, is mostly fat.

Tunafish is 93% protein. Eaten to the exclusion of all else, THAT's high-protein. And that's where I was just supposing a fatal misunderstanding could have occurred.

But that was just speculation, which is apparently good enough to get published in a medical journal.

They have no idea why she died. Her calcium and potassium were low, and they guess her magnesium was probably also low. They don't know if she was bulimic, anorectic, or abusing diuretics or laxatives. They caught right on to the fact that her heart stopped, though.