Bodybuilder who ate 10,000 calories a day and drank eight cans of energy drink died of liver cancer caused by years of steroid abuse

                      

A bodybuilder, who gorged on junk food and drank eight cans of energy drink to gain weight, died of liver cancer caused by years of steroid abuse. Fitness enthusiast Dean Wharmby, 39, from Rochdale, (left, during his bodybuilder days and inset, while battling cancer) died in July after a five and a half year long battle with liver cancer. Obsessed with gaining size, to obtain the perfect bodybuilder's physique, he survived on a 10,000 calorie a day diet of burgers, pizzas and bacon sandwiches -

washed down with seven to eight cans of energy drink. At his inquest coroner Lisa Hashmi said: 'Dean's death and the precious loss of such a young life in such circumstances ought to send out a very clear message to all those involved in the body building and fitness industries.'