Gists: Too Much Of Everything Is Bad

A father was given just hours to live after overdosing on diet pills which "cooked" him from the inside - in an effort to get the perfect "beach body".

Lewis Brown was placed into a coma and covered in ice as his body temperature rocketed to 42 degrees after he took eight 'fat burning' pills in one day.

The 25-year-old's family were even warned to say their goodbyes as his muscles began dying - but incredibly he fought back and recovered.


Lab worker Lewis started going to the gym to get fit but quickly became obsessed with working out and started taking steroids to gain a 15-and-a-half stone frame.

Going to the gym every day, Lewis turned to controversial diet pills DNP this summer to help him lose extra fat so he could add more muscle.

But the father-of-one overdosed when he took eight of the 'fat burners' in a day and the poisonous chemicals increased his body temperature to almost 42 degrees.

Worried medics were forced to put Lewis in a coma while they covered him in ice, but when his muscles started to die, his devastated family were called to say goodbye.

Miraculously Lewis, from Haverhill, Suffolk, pulled through - but not before medics were forced to cut out a leg muscle which had died.

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Now he is warning of the dangers of the illegal pills which can easily be bought for just 3p each online.

DNP causes the body to run out of energy, accelerates metabolism to a dangerously fast level and causes the body's temperature to rise.

He had taken three or four of the controversial tablets a day for a couple of weeks in early 2015, but on July 23 he took eight in 12 hours - his first day of re-taking the tablets.The near-fatal dose was the exact number taken by student Eloise Parry, 21, from Shrewsbury, who died just months earlier.