> "We are told that this patient has a poor diet and eats a lot of candy. Could his illness be related to candy consumption?" Dr Elazer R Edelman said.

> The patient had also recently changed the type of sweets he was eating. A few weeks before his death, he switched from red fruit-flavoured twists to another type made with black liquorice.

It sounds like this person was already on an EXTREMELY bad diet. I have personally known construction workers who live off of three square meals of gas station junk food for weeks at a time.