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ARTICLES IN THE BOOK

  1. Academy of the Sierras
  2. Anopsology
  3. Atkins Nutritional Approach
  4. Best Bet Diet
  5. Blood type diet
  6. BRAT diet
  7. Buddhist cuisine
  8. Cabbage soup diet
  9. Calorie restriction
  10. Calorie Restriction Society
  11. Carbwiser
  12. Detox diet
  13. Diabetic diet
  14. Diet
  15. Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension
  16. Dietary laws
  17. Dieting
  18. Dieting myth
  19. Dietitian
  20. Dr. Hay diet
  21. Duke Diet and Fitness Center
  22. Fasting
  23. Fatfield Diet
  24. Fit for Life
  25. Food faddism
  26. Food Separation Diet
  27. F-plan
  28. Freeganism
  29. French Women Don't Get Fat
  30. Fruitarianism
  31. Gerson diet
  32. Gluten-free beer
  33. Gluten-free, casein-free diet
  34. Gluten-free diet
  35. Graham Diet
  36. Grapefruit diet
  37. Hechsher
  38. High protein diet
  39. Horace Fletcher
  40. Hunza diet
  41. Indigenous Australian food groups
  42. Inedia
  43. Islamic dietary laws
  44. Israeli Army diet
  45. Ital
  46. Juice fasting
  47. Kashrut
  48. Ketogenic diet
  49. Kosher foods
  50. Lacto vegetarianism
  51. Leptoprin
  52. List of diets
  53. Living foods diet
  54. Low-carbohydrate diet
  55. Macrobiotic diet
  56. Mediterranean diet
  57. Metabolic typing
  58. Montignac diet
  59. Natural Foods Diet
  60. Negative calorie diet
  61. No-Grain Diet
  62. Okinawa diet
  63. Ornish Diet
  64. Paleolithic diet
  65. Pectarianism
  66. Plant-based diet
  67. pollo vegetarianism
  68. Polymeal
  69. Ralstonism
  70. Rice Diet
  71. Sardine diet
  72. Slim Fast
  73. Soft diet
  74. Solon diet
  75. Sonoma diet
  76. South Beach diet
  77. Sunlight diet
  78. Taboo food and drink
  79. Taoist diet
  80. The 10% Solution for a Healthy Life
  81. The Cambridge Diet
  82. The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet
  83. The Diet Smart Plan
  84. The Fat Smash Diet
  85. The Hacker's Diet
  86. The Shangri-La Diet
  87. Traditional diet
  88. Unclean animals
  89. Veganism
  90. Vegetarianism
  91. Very Low Calorie Diet
  92. Warrior Diet
  93. Water fasting
  94. Weight Watchers
  95. Yo-yo dieting

 

 
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THE DIETS BOOK
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Inedia

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

Inedia is the alleged ability to live without food. Breatharianism is a related concept, in which believers claim food and possibly water are not necessary, and that humans can be sustained solely by prana (the vital life force in Hinduism), or according to some, by the energy in sunlight. The terms breatharianism or inedia may also refer to this philosophy practiced as a lifestyle in place of the usual diet. While it is often seen as an esoteric practice performed by eastern ascetics, recently some groups such as the Breatharian Institute of America [1] have promoted the practice as an option for anybody, once the proper techniques for accessing it are made known.

Current scientific theories about nutrition and generally accepted common sense both indicate that a person who follows this practice in the long term would die of starvation or dehydration. Breatharians have seldom submitted themselves to medical testing and currently there is no evidence to support their claims.

Prominent skeptic James Randi has this to say about Breatharianism:

There are some claims that are far too implausible to warrant any serious examination, such as the "Breatharian" claims in which the applicant states that he can survive without food or water. Science conclusively tells us all we need to know about such matters, and the [James Randi Educational Foundation] feels no obligation to engage applicants in such delusions.[2]

Jasmuheen

Jasmuheen (born Ellen Greve) was probably the most famous advocate of Breatharianism during the 1990s. [3] She claimed "I can go for months and months without having anything at all other than a cup of tea. My body runs on a different kind of nourishment." [4] Several interviewers found her house full of food, but she claimed the food was for her husband. In 1999, she volunteered to be monitored closely by Australia's 60 Minutes for one week without eating to demonstrate her methods. [5] [6] Greve claimed that she failed because on the first day of the test she had been confined in a hotel room near a busy road, saying that the stress and pollution kept her from getting the nutrients she needed from the air. “I asked for fresh air. Seventy percent of my nutrients come from fresh air. I couldn’t even breathe,” she said. On the third day the test moved to a mountainside retreat where she could get plenty of fresh air and live happily. After Greve had fasted for four days, Dr. Berris Wink, president of the Queensland branch of the Australian Medical Association, urged her to stop the test.

According to the doctor, Greve’s pupils were dilated, her speech was slow, she was "quite dehydrated, probably over 10%, getting up to 11%." Towards the end of the test, he said, "Her pulse is about double what it was when she started. The risks if she goes any further are kidney failure. 60 Minutes would be culpable if they encouraged her to continue. She should stop now." The test was stopped. Dr. Wink said, "Unfortunately there are a few people who may believe what she says, and I'm sure it's only a few, but I think it's quite irresponsible for somebody to be trying to encourage others to do something that is so detrimental to their health."[7] She challenged the results of the program, saying, "Look, 6,000 people have done this around the world without any problem." [8] Though she claims thousands of followers,[9][10] mostly in Germany,[11] there is no evidence that any have lived for long periods of time without any food at all.

Jasmuheen was awarded the Bent Spoon Award by Australian Skeptics in 2000 ("presented to the perpetrator of the most preposterous piece of paranormal or pseudoscientific piffle"). [12] She also won the 2000 Ig Nobel Prize for Literature for Living on Light. Jasmuheen claims that their beliefs are based on the writings and "more recent channelled material" of the Count of St Germain. [13] She claims that her DNA has expanded from 2 to 12 strands, to "absorb more hydrogen". When offered $30,000 to prove her claim with a blood test, she said that she didn't understand the relevance.[14]

Deaths

The well-publicized deaths of 49-year-old Australian-born Scotland resident Verity Linn, 31-year-old Munich kindergarten teacher Timo Degen, and 53-year-old Melbourne resident Lani Marcia Roslyn Morris, while attempting to enter the Breatharian "diet," have drawn further criticism of the idea.[15] [16] Jim Vadim Pesnak, 63, and his wife Eugenia, 60, went to jail for three years on charges of manslaughter for their involvement in the death of Morris. Verity Lynn, the Scottish woman who inadvertently killed herself by choosing the Breatharian "diet" was a nominee for the 1999 Darwin Awards. She "took to the highlands", the article says, "with only a tent and her grit and determination." She died of hypothermia and dehydration, aggravated by lack of food. Jasmuheen claimed that her death was brought on by a psycho-spiritual problem, rather than a physiological one.

Jasmuheen has denied any involvement with the three deaths and claims she cannot be held responsible for the actions of her followers. In reference to the death of Lani Morris, she said that perhaps Morris was "not coming from a place of integrity and did not have the right motivation".[17]

Wiley Brooks

Wiley Brooks is a purported breatharian, and founder of the Breatharian Institute of America. Wiley claims he has been a breatharian for 30 years, 20 of those years giving seminars on the topic. Wiley has stopped teaching in recent years, so he can "devote 100% of his time on solving the problem as to why he needed to eat some type of food to keep his physical body alive and allow his (5D) light body to manifest completely." [18] This comes after much controversy over the years. In 1983 he was spotted leaving a Santa Cruz 7-Eleven with a Slurpee, hot dog and Twinkies. [19] He told Colors magazine in 2003 that he periodically breaks his Fasting with a Big Mac and Coke, explaining that when he's surrounded by junk culture and foods, consuming them adds balance.[20]

Hira Ratan Manek

Hira Ratan Manek (born September 12, 1937) claims that since June 18th, 1995, he has lived exclusively on water, and occasional tea, coffee, and buttermilk. He says sunlight is the key to his health, citing the Jainist Tirthankara Mahavira, ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Native Americans as his inspiration.

According to his website, three extended periods of his fasting have been under observed control of scientific and medical teams. The first lasted 211 days in 1995-96 in Calicut, India under the direction of Dr C. K. Ramachandran. During this study his weight is reported to have reduced by 41 kg.[21]

The second study lasted 411 days in 2000-2001 in Ahmedabad, India under the direction of a 21 member team of medical doctors and scientists led by Dr Sudhir Shah and Dr K. K. Shah, a past President of the Indian Medical Association and current Chairman of the Jainist Doctors' Federation, which aims include to "Promote scientific research & medical education based on principles of Jainism"[22]. Dr K. K. Shar is quoted as saying "Fasting is a method of curing the meditation of mind and body which has been proved by great jain monks, sanyasis and munis of ancient times. There is a need to propagate these methods during this age of increasing diseases of the body and mind due to overconsumptions and increasing with fasting would help maintain perfection."[23]. Dr Sudhir Shah was also involved in the study of Prahlad Jani.[24]

The paper[25] published by Dr Sudhir Shar makes it clear that dozens of people had access to Hira Ratan Manek during the study and he went on at least one excursion: "Most surprisingly, he had himself climbed the famous Shatrunjay mountain (Palitana hill) on 4.4.01, on 401st day of his legendary fasting along with 500 fellowmen without anybody’s help, within 1.5 Hrs. only". The paper reports that the subject lost 19 kg of weight during the study period. Neither the experiment, as described in the paper, nor the paper itself are of a standard that would be accepted by any Western scientific or medical journal.

The third study lasted 130 days in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at Thomas Jefferson University and University of Pennsylvania under the direction of Dr. Andrew Newberg and Dr. George C. Brainard. Dr Sudhir Shah, who lead the previous study, acted as an advisor and consultant to the USA team.[26]

However, contact with Dr. Andrew Newberg has revealed that Hira only stayed at University of Pennsylvania for brain scans on studies of meditation, not his ability to fast indefinitely. Newberg had denied ever undertaking the 130 day study, and had forbidden his e-mail from being distributed.

Prahlad Jani

Prahlad Jani, a fakir, spent ten days under strict observation by physicians in Ahmedabad, India in 2003. The study was led by Dr Sudhir Shah, the same doctor who led the study of Hira Ratan Manek. Reportedly, during the observation, he was given only 100 millilitres of water a day to use as mouthwash, which was collected and measured after he used it, to make sure he hadn't consumed any. Throughout the observation, he passed no urine or stool, but doctors say urine appeared to form in the bladder, only to be reabsorbed. However, despite Jani's claim to have gone without food for decades, Jani was not engaged in strenuous exercise during the ten-day trial, and longer trials were not recorded under similarly strict observation. Further, his weight did drop slightly during the 10 days, casting some doubt on his claim to go indefinitely without food. Jani claims a goddess sustains him through nectar that filters down through a hole in his palate. [27] The Indian Rationalists label him a "village fraud".[28]

Yan Xin

Dr. Yan Xin, a practitioner of Chinese Qigong and other esotericisms, and some of his followers claim to have lived for months and years without eating. However, there is no scientifically confirmed evidence of this.

Religious traditions of inedia

Roman Catholicism

Roman Catholicism also has traditions of inedia, in which saints, as well as Jesus, are claimed to have been able to go for months or years without any food (or with no food but Communion).[29] Such saints include:

  • Alphais
  • Helen Enselmini
  • Elisabeth the Good
  • Lydwina of Schiedam
  • Mary Ann de Paredes
  • Marthe Robin (allegedly 53 years)
  • Nicholas of Flue (According to legend, he survived for nineteen years with no food except for the Eucharist.)
  • Theresa Von Neumann

Hinduism

Paramahansa Yogananda's Autobiography of a Yogi details two alleged historical examples of Breatharianism, Giri Bala and Therese Neumann.

Other explanations

Other than a simple confidence trick, skeptics can also point to somnambulism as an alternative explanation for this purported phenomenon. The most common sleep activity is sleepwalking, but activities such as eating, dressing or even driving cars have also been recorded as taking place while the subjects are technically asleep.[citation needed]

Trivia

The idea of Breatharianism was explored on the FX show Starved, where one of the main characters tried this concept in order to lose weight.

See also

  • Fasting
  • Pro-ana
  • Sungazing
  • Jasmuheen
  • Johnny Lovewisdom
  • Wiley Brooks
  • Hira Ratan Manek

External links

  • A list of historical and contemporary breatharians

Case studies

  • Fasting fakir flummoxes physicians — BBC article about Prahlad Jani
  • Prahlad Jani — Ten Day Study Medical Case Summary
  • BBC story: Guru condemned as 'dangerous'
  • BBC story: Woman 'starved herself to death'
  • Scientist skips food, 'survives" by solar energy — article about Dr. Michael Werner, who claims to have not eaten anything in four years
  • Sunlight, water are the only sustenance he needs — article about Hira Ratan Manek
  • Dr. Sudhir Shah's synopsis of Hira Ratan Manek's 411 day supervised fast
  • Living on Light at Google Video - episode of 60 Minutes (Jasmuheen's aborted experiment)

Proponent sites

  • Jasmuheen.com — Jasmuheen's organization
  • The Breatharian Institute Of America — Wiley Brooks' organization
  • Solar Healing Center — Hira Ratan Manek's official website
  • Yan Xin Qigong — Dr. Yan Xin's website
  • Breatharian.info

Criticism

  • Skeptic's Dictionary article on Breatharianism
  • Breatharian information from the Rick A. Ross Institute for the Study of Destructive Cults, Controversial Groups and Movements
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