Posted on 04/29/2010 4:19:30 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
SCIENTISTS are studying an 82-year-old man who claims he has not had any food or drink for 70 years.
Prahlad Janis claims are being put to the test at a hospital in Ahmedabad, where he is being closely monitored and studied by Indias Defence Research Development Organisation, which believes he may have a quality which could help save lives, The Telegraph reports.
He has so far spent six days without food or water under the strict observation of doctors who say his body is yet to show any signs of hunger or dehydration.
Mr Jani is regarded as a "breatharian" who can live a "spiritual life-force" alone. He believes he is sustained by the "elixir" of a goddess.
The research organisation believes Mr Jani could hold the key to helping soldiers or disaster victims survive without food for longer periods in times of crisis.
"If his claims are verified, it will be a breakthrough in medical science," said Dr G Ilavazhagan, director of the Defence Institute of Physiology & Allied Sciences.
"We will be able to help save human lives during natural disasters, high altitude, sea journeys and other natural and human extremities. We can educate people about the survival techniques in adverse conditions with little food and water or nothing at all."
However, others have dismissed Mr Jani as a "village fraud".
Leading Australian nutritionist, Dr Joanna McMillan Price, said the study was a dangerous and pointless exercise.
"Whats the point? To show spiritual strength? You would struggle to go for more than a week without water and without food, your body starts to break down muscle, eventually attacking the heart muscles needed to provide energy to the brain until ultimately you have a heart attack and you die," she said.
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Well I did not eat anything but I did try out ‘pancho & lefty’ and ‘lay lady lay’. Plus she did not fade away, so its all good!
Please note that even Jesus said, "bread alone", meaning that while physical nurishment is necessary, so is spiritual nurishment. There is a physical world that follows physical laws and a spiritual world that follows spiritual ones. We have a foot in both worlds. If we ignore the laws of physics by not eating, we will have both feet (and everything else) in the spiritual one. God bless, namaste, and shalom!
registered Democrats claim to love America.....
I believe St. Catherine of Sienna was said to have eaten nothing but the Eucharist for years.
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