Indian Man Goes Without Food For 70 Years

[algernon]

I have went 10 days without eating before, but I drank a lot of lemonade. It would be seriously difficult to go even a day without water.

My bet: he had a water bag surgically installed through his urethra, and he's drinking from that when no ones looking.

[Ducay]

To quote the survival "rule of threes" (which is just a guideline)

A person can survive for:
Three hours without shelter
Three days without water
Three weeks without food

Completely plausible he has been fine without food for the 15 days.

Now the fact he has survived for 15 days without water is pretty amazing in itself.

But 70 years....yeeesh

[CaptainCrunch]

I think the longest prior to this gentleman is 8 days, but at that point your body and your brain are pretty much a mess.

[Flashpoint]

A person can survive for:
Three hours without shelter

What?

[kirant]

Originally Posted by Tyler

You can't go more than three days without water.

Huh...wonder what I was reading then...because I was always told if you were asked to go with only one of sleep, food, or water, for a week, you go with sleep.

[tvp2003]

^^^

I've heard it's:

Three minutes without air
Three days without water
Three weeks without food

[Fugly]

He looks really hungry in that picture.

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by kirant

Huh...wonder what I was reading then...because I was always told if you were asked to go with only one of sleep, food, or water, for a week, you go with sleep.

Yes that way when you die from dehydration, you'll go peacefully in your sleep.

[Old Yeller]

Originally Posted by Ducay

To quote the survival "rule of threes" (which is just a guideline)

3 hours without shelter? Are we talking in -50 degree weather here?

[Boblobla]

Originally Posted by Old Yeller

3 hours without shelter? Are we talking in -50 degree weather here?

Or +50

[Old Yeller]

That must be the case, otherwise I've gone for long hikes that should have killed me.

[Phaneuf3]

Originally Posted by Ducay

To quote the survival "rule of threes" (which is just a guideline)

I spent FOUR hours outside yesterday. Am I already dead and just don't know it or am I some ancient mystical yogi? Someone get a news crew on this, stat!

[loob job]

hahahha, its three minutes without air, not three hours without shelter.

[loob job]

I've always thought how much of an idiot Kevin Garnett looks in that piece where he yells 'anything is possible'..........what a knob.

[Azure]

gah, nm.

[Azure]

Of course, something all of you aren't thinking about is that his body could have adapted to certain conditions allowing him to survive without food or water for 15 days.

People eat 300 hotdogs at eating competitions for a living and stay skinny.

Why couldn't it be the other way around?

[puckluck]

Originally Posted by Azure

Of course, something all of you aren't thinking about is that his body could have adapted to certain conditions allowing him to survive without food or water for 15 days.

People eat 300 hotdogs at eating competitions for a living and stay skinny.

Why couldn't it be the other way around?

Because the body doesn't work like that.

People have died in hot dog eating competitions and they have died from drinking too much water.

[Azure]

Originally Posted by puckluck

Because the body doesn't work like that.

People have died in hot dog eating competitions and they have died from drinking too much water.

A very small percentage of people die from eating competitions. A lot more have absolutely no problem.

Another thing that could exist is that his body has some kind of disorder where he doesn't utilize bodily fluids the right way.

[troutman]

http://www.indianskeptic.com/beyond-...scam/#more-340

With the many recent claims of people living without food and water, it has become very necessary to examine the issues that have been raised, particularly the methods used to verify the claims of these people. There is this man from Kerala who claims to have extracted energy from the sun by staring at it and converting it to the energy needed to keep his bodily processes going on. There is this man from Gujarat claiming to have been blessed by a goddess who pours something down his throat, and so he does not need any food or water. He also claims to have lived for seven decades without these!

These recent reports have provided much needed threads for the Hindutwavadi gang to cling to. Their illusions have recently been dashed by scandal after scandal and they had been in desperate search for new icons and they have been provided by these new idols proclaiming that they can live without food and water. It is not that these claims are new! We have been hearing of these since time immemorial like the stories of ancient sages living on air for thousands of years and such. But we have not seen one till this day! Those who are around today make desperate attempts to hide their age by dyeing their hirsute appendages and wearing wigs to hide their bald patches! We have sterling examples of the contortionist, the pilot turned Baba, the afro wigged Puttaparthi guy and innumerable such examples. The squeaky voiced patent holder for breathing has a few carefully preserved strands of gray in his mane and beard!

It is obvious that the people making these claims of living without food and water are charlatans, and the investigators are either hand-in-glove with them or are so gullible that they are not making the proper efforts to investigate. There are many reports of scietists investigating the claims of the breatharians. While we have the breatharians in the West, we have the solarians and the yogarians here.

SGTU podcast was talking last week about a guy Randi was investigating in North America that made similar claims. They simply waited outside his hotel, and before too long they saw him go out and buy a bag full of hamburgers.

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by puckluck

Because the body doesn't work like that.

People have died in hot dog eating competitions and they have died from drinking too much water.

Or they release a 10 pound chocolate mud baby about an hour after the event.