If you believe that ...
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 Jani’s claims are being put to the test at a hospital in Ahmedabad, where he is being closely monitored and studied by India’s 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.
"What’s 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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If his claims are verified, I will become a hat-arian and consume my own fedora.
I could go for days without eating when I was in college. Drank a lot of bread, though.
This has been documented before. Read Auto Biography of a Yogi
SCIENTISTS
The word gets used more and more loosely as time goes by.
Pictures???
That’s a Stipearian
Look up "The Law of Conservation of Energy". He is expending energy, therefore he must be ingesting energy. (Unless his hair is green and he keeps his feet buried, then he just needs a little sunlight, water, and CO2)
Well, it’s not Michael Moore.......
Man claims he ate, drank nothing for 70 years but sniffed lotsa white powder
No more food stamps.
His skills will really come in handy once ObaMugabe wins a second term and none of us can afford food.....
Ten bucks says he dies right in front of them trying to prove it.
Same scientists are trying to decide if he can have any impact on global warming....
And in other news, “Prahlad Jani” has been found to one of the many aliases used by the man we now as “Obama.”
"If his claims are verified, it will be a breakthrough in medical science," said Dr G Ilavazhagan.
The guy was on an IV for 70 years.
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