70 years without eating?

[jumpkickjoe]

Dunno if this is a repost but it's quite interesting..........

http://bodyodd.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2010/05/10/2299480.aspx?GT1=43001

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.

Bobby Sands, an Irish Republican convicted of firearms possession and imprisoned by the British, died in 1981 on the 66th day of his hunger strike. Gandhi was also known to go long stretches without food, including a 21-day hunger strike in 1932.

Jani, dubbed "the starving yogi" by some, did have limited contact with water while gargling and periodically bathing, reported the news wire service AFP. While researchers said they measured what he spit out, Van Rooyen said he's clearly getting fluid somehow.

"You can hold a lot of water in those yogi beards. A sneaky yogi for certain," he said. "He MUST take in water. The human body cannot survive without it." The effects of food and water deprivation are profound, Van Rooyen explained. “Ultimately, instead of metabolizing sugar and glycogen [the body’s energy sources] you start to metabolize fat and then cause muscle breakdown. Without food, your body chemistry changes. Profoundly malnourished people autodigest, they consume their own body’s resources. You get liver failure, tachycardia, heart strain. You fall apart.”

The yogi, though, would already be dead from lack of hydration. If he really went without any liquids at all, his cardiovascular system would have collapsed. “You lose about a liter or two of water per day just by breathing,” Van Rooyen said. You don’t have to sweat, which the yogi claims he never does. That water loss results in thicker blood and a drop in blood pressure.

“You go from being a grape to a raisin,” Van Rooyen said and if you didn’t have a heart attack first, you’d die of kidney failure.

[- Rovin's car audio -]

im not buying it ...

[Midnight_Demon]

i say BS a HUGE load of it

[Stephon.]

70 years in Guyanese.

[janfar]

Ah sure he mouth was greasy with KFC when he make he claim!!!

[Razkal]

70 years in Guyanese.

by my calculations...

70 guyanese years = ~3 episodes of House....

:lol:

[Picasso]

Somebody remove this BS post or spam it wid hot sexy chicas please

[illumin@ti]

i say BS a HUGE load of it

Careful eh ,, the hindu fanatics might come and try to burn u at the stake for a bad religious statement against their faith... the the christian fanatics will call u an athiest non-believer and accrue this effort to the power of prayer.. the islamic fundamentalist will call a fatwa on yuh head and you'll disappear by next week

[badart]

impossible is nothin

[legoRB]

MIND ova MATTER

[zcarz]

70 years in Guyanese.

IBTr1ad

[UML]

REPOST

[zcarz]

^ok then IBTr1ad and IBTL

[Chimera]

i say BS a HUGE load of it

Careful eh ,, the hindu fanatics might come and try to burn u at the stake for a bad religious statement against their faith... the the christian fanatics will call u an athiest non-believer and accrue this effort to the power of prayer.. the islamic fundamentalist will call a fatwa on yuh head and you'll disappear by next week

What the baptist guh do?

[zcarz]

i say BS a HUGE load of it

Careful eh ,, the hindu fanatics might come and try to burn u at the stake for a bad religious statement against their faith... the the christian fanatics will call u an athiest non-believer and accrue this effort to the power of prayer.. the islamic fundamentalist will call a fatwa on yuh head and you'll disappear by next week

What the baptist guh do?

baptise yuh

[UML]

viewtopic.php?printertopic=1&t=310071&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&vote=viewresult

[Trini Hookah]

i say BS a HUGE load of it

Careful eh ,, the hindu fanatics might come and try to burn u at the stake for a bad religious statement against their faith... the the christian fanatics will call u an athiest non-believer and accrue this effort to the power of prayer.. the islamic fundamentalist will call a fatwa on yuh head and you'll disappear by next week

What the baptist guh do?

Shout

[zcarz]

http://www.trinituner.com/v3/forums/viewtopic.php?printertopic=1&t=310071&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&vote=viewresult

I am not allowed to read this forum.. 1emo

[Rooki3]

he have japs in he beard!!

[Kittles]

steups!! how the hell this gettin so much attenion????

[zcarz]

^^because de man fackin photosynthesizing

[Chimera]

steups!! how the hell this gettin so much attenion????

what kind of ape-like response is that to a perfectly civil thread?

[Kittles]

LOL your issues are showing

[shogun]

[~Vēġó~]

conventional means of deriving energy/sustenance for the body through food and water, but for those who deeply understand that the physical body is but an extension of the elements that pervades everything then nourishing said physical body through those elements eventually becomes an easy and automated task.....

[dreadman]

allyuh d man drinkin an eating he own fart.....

[zcarz]

conventional means of deriving energy/sustenance for the body through food and water, but for those who deeply understand that the physical body is but an extension of the elements that pervades everything then nourishing said physical body through those elements eventually becomes an easy and automated task.....

No.. it's impossible.. you'd have to have a huge surface area (with respect to volume) for that to be even remotely possible.

[~Vēġó~]

^^^are you referring to absorption through skin and lungs?

I am referring to the ability to merge the physical body with the elemental properties and energy that exist in and around everything....so that the physical body itself becomes and is that elemental energy....

[RadeonHD]

My deeply religious and not so educated Hindu neighbor believes this 100%

He also believes Sai Baba is god and claims made by Sai Baba that he can transform his pen!s into a p.u.$.$.y.
Sadly he says he does not believe that Transformers was based on a true story. Even when I have tried every trick in the book to convince him.

Tomorrow I will say transformers was mentioned in the Hindu scriptures and get back to you guys on whats the outcome of his beliefs.

[~Vēġó~]

roflmao.....do that man!