University student, 18, dies 'after taking fat-burning pills' he boasted about on FB

[Northerner]

A university student known as 'Mr Muscles' has died after apparently taking 'lethal' bodybuilding pills to help him lose weight.
Fitness fanatic Sarmad Alladin, 18, who had posted snaps of his new muscles online, was taken to hospital just hours after praising the fat-burning tablets called DNP on Facebook.
Mr Alladin, an international student and son of an Indian millionaire, called an ambulance as he suddenly collapsed.

He was living in university accommodation in Epsom, Surrey, while attending the specialist art and design university in nearby Farnham.
A friend told The Sun: 'He wasn't the type to put something like that into his body, so clearly they're misleading. I've cried so much since he died.'
Last week the University for the Creative Arts warned its students: 'It has come to the University's attention that some very dangerous weight-loss and body-building drugs could be circulating among students.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...uscles-dies-taking-DNP-fat-burning-pills.html

 

[robert@fm]

Shocking -- and disgusting that one of the comments is claiming that "anything that you can buy from a shop or a registered supplement website is perfectly safe". 😱 I suppose that Mr. Alladin dropped dead from drinking too many protein shakes. 🙄

I can only assume that the comment in question was posted by a spammer afraid that business on his quack-nostrum website might fall off because of this, and who is thus lying because that's what spammers do...

 

[Northerner]

Shocking -- and disgusting that one of the comments is claiming that "anything that you can buy from a shop or a registered supplement website is perfectly safe". 😱 I suppose that Mr. Alladin dropped dead from drinking too many protein shakes. 🙄

I can only assume that the comment in question was posted by a spammer afraid that business on his quack-nostrum website might fall off because of this, and who is thus lying because that's what spammers do...

I tend not to read comments on news articles any more (on the news websites, not here!), there is too much rubbish written by people hiding behind their anonymity