Yogi claims no food or water for decades for 70 years

Can City Council learn to run a city from this Yogi?

This Yogi is walking, talking proof that you can survive with simple prayer and light. Ok, now I sound like I drank the kool-aid! This guy is an Indian yogi named Prahlad Jani.He’s 82 years old and said he hasn’t had one bite to eat since he was 10 years old. Interesting right? Why would you not eat for 70 years?It doesn’t make much sense unless you’re trying to prove that God permits miracles on Earth, so that you can convey some spiritual message. (more…)

 

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

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