Matt Campbell's death in the London Marathon

[andyswarbs]

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I write this now, before the autopsy results come stating the cause of this sad death. I don't follow MasterChef particularly, but the chef hit fame when presenting a vegan desert. So I took particular interest to see whether he had adopted a healthy plant based lifestyle. Certainly he used on his instagram account a plant based hashtag. Sadly given his background as a chef my research does not show that he had reached a healthy lifestyle, according to my definition. In which case this put him at risk of a heart attack and my guess is that was a primary cause of his untimely death.

Although like so many others felt very healthy and yet did not understand that external feelings of good health is not necessarily the same as internal health, particularly of arteries. There is no warning when a blood clot blocks flow to heart, it just happens. Artery clogging goes on whether you exercise a lot or a little, and in his case whether or not you do marathons.

What affects whether you are going to have a heart attack is what you eat. Given he was a chef, my guess is that Matt Campbell cooked and ate a lot of organic food, and that did not protect him. Obviously perhaps, much of the diet of a chef would have been rich food and that definitely would not have protected him. Looking at his recipes he cooked with coconut oil, and I guess olive oil, and that did not protect him. He certainly cooked and at fish, and that did not protect him.

As time went by he was obviously moving towards a plant food diet. But until you complete the move entirely a diet with just a little meat/fish still carries a significant risk of heart attacks. It is only when the transition to a whole-food plant based no-refined oils diet is complete that the healing process of the arteries and the reversal of atherosclerosis really begins to happen.

So wherever Matt Campbell was in is transition towards the ultra healthy whole food plant based diet and lifestyle he did not make the transition fast enough or soon enough for his body.

That's my take.

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Hi Andy, I saw this on TV and thought how sad as he was only young and it was exceptionally hot for April.

May he RIP and my thoughts are with his family.

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Was he vegan/vegetarian/omnivore? If you don't mind me asking, that is, of course?

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That was the question I asked. Looking at one recent instagram hashtags (december 2017)

#masterchef #masterchefuk #mastercheftheprofessionals #bbc2 #mattsoire #raw #vegan #glutenfree #dairyfree #refinedsugarfree #rawcake #healthy #health #nutritionalgastronomy #nutrition #plantbased #forall #thestaffcanteen #gbchefs #veganrecipes #vegandessert #soigne #chefsteps #development #🌱 @vegan @vega_team @veganfoodspot @vegan_fam @livekindlyco

you can clearly see he was strongly moving in the vegan direction. His instagram.com/p/BhEnp-lBcF3... post is a vegan menu.

There is no doubt he was an artist with food, and I think that was potentially his downfall. What I I fail to see is large bowls of undressed salad, and raw vegetables in his creations. Instead he created very artistic creations using vegan ingredients, and I guess that is what it takes to compete in masterchef.

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"Matt first entered a marathon in 2016 and ate an exclusively vegan diet while he was in training."

metro.co.uk/2018/04/23/reme...

Yes, you are right. Food can be a double-edged sword as we all know. . . Thank you for your comment.