Timeline for Can "breatharians" live without food or water?
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| Dec 8, 2021 at 15:27 | comment | added | jwenting | @phoog I'm sure you're transmuting carbon from your food into oxygen just as the breatharians are transmuting oxygen from the air into carbon... | |
| Dec 8, 2021 at 14:11 | comment | added | phoog | @jwenting I don't need oxygen, but I breathe because I dislike the feeling of suffocation that develops when I don't. (Now that I mention this, I realize that I can't imagine what the people who don't eat are doing with all that oxygen -- and where is the carbon in their exhalations coming from?) | |
| Dec 8, 2021 at 14:07 | comment | added | phoog | Is there any research concerning the duration of survival without food that tries to control for, or at least to take into account, the weight of the person at the beginning of the fast? It seems common sense that people with higher BMI will tend to be able to survive longer, and that consuming more food in the days before the fast will similarly increase one's capacity to survive without eating. This could be significant as some people such as prisoners might already be somewhat malnourished when they begin their hunger strikes. | |
| Oct 20, 2014 at 1:40 | comment | added | Schwern | @jwenting Reminds me of the Brain Guys from MST3K who had evolved beyond the needs of physical bodies and merely had to eat a few bowls of non-food pills each day. | |
| Oct 15, 2014 at 13:05 | history | edited | rjzii | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 21, 2013 at 6:51 | comment | added | jwenting | I've seen TV documentaries about such claims. Usually it comes down to the claimants eating and drinking normally, but claiming they do so only because of the pleasant sensation and to be social, not because they need the nutrients (yeah, right). | |
| Apr 26, 2011 at 22:16 | vote | accept | Monkey Tuesday | ||
| Apr 26, 2011 at 22:15 | comment | added | Monkey Tuesday | very well done. I was beginning to worry that this was one of those "not even wrong" claims no one was going to take the time to refute. Cheers | |
| Apr 26, 2011 at 12:57 | history | edited | Ardesco | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| S Apr 26, 2011 at 12:23 | history | suggested | Alexandru | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 26, 2011 at 11:23 | history | edited | Konrad Rudolph | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 26, 2011 at 11:05 | history | answered | Ardesco | CC BY-SA 3.0 |