Life on air

[Shaedys]

http://bodyodd.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2010/05/10/2299480.aspx

Prahlad Jani, an 82-year-old Indian yogi, is making headlines by claims that for the past 70 years he has had nothing -- not one calorie -- to eat and not one drop of liquid to drink. To test his claims, Indian military doctors put him under round-the-clock observation during a two-week hospital stay that ended last week, news reports say. During that time he didn't ingest any food or water, and remained perfectly healthy, the researchers said.

But that's simply impossible, said Dr. Michael Van Rooyen an emergency physician at Harvard's Brigham and Women's Hospital, an associate professor at the medical school, and the director of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, which focuses on aid to displaced populations who lack food and water.

Van Rooyen says that depending on climate conditions like temperature and humidity, a human could survive five or six days without water, maybe a day or two longer in extraordinary circumstances. We can go much longer without food, even up to three months if that person is taking liquids fortified with vitamins and electrolytes.

Apparently they are trying to analyse this man for military applications, also for astronauts. Trying to figure out how he's doing it.
I'm still wondering when he'll be proven a fraud.
It would be cool if it was possible, but I doubt you can survive without food/water.
Especially since a lot of people seem to starve to death, and they don't seem to live.

 

[CosmicSpork]

There was a woman a few years ago who claimed something similar that she was living off sunlight or something utterly ridiculous.

Think she was proven a fraud before too long.

 

[Baranduin]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breatharianism

There was a woman a few years ago who claimed something similar that she was living off sunlight or something utterly ridiculous.

Think she was proven a fraud before too long.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasmuheen This woman? Not soon enough.

 

[Shaedys]

Its the latest hollywood diet, breatharianism!

 

[MRaverz]

I think this is a sceptic with questionable methods attempting to rid the world of stupid people who are going to try this out.

 

[CosmicSpork]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasmuheen This woman? Not soon enough.

Yes I believe it was.