Well starting on the page of evidence it says that people in Hunza in Pakistan live to 200, that is false and is probably a good place to start.
First link is a blog that has some useful information, notably:
"As someone who has lived and worked in the Hunza and Baltistan
region of northern Pakistan for a
decade, it is important to first
debunk the myth that the Burushushki,
Wakhi and Shina people of the Hunza
region are blessed with the lives of
Methusula. This was actually a myth
which gained momentum when it was
written up by Dr. Alexander Leaf, in
the January 1973 issue of National
Geographic magazine. There is
absolutely no scientific validity to
his claim. People of the Hunza suffer
from malnutrition and nutrition
deficiencies just as much as any other
remote mountain region in SE Asia.
Although the predominantly Ismaeli
faith (branch of Shi-ite muslims) are
progressive and relatively better off
than most of their neighbours in
nearby regions, they will all tell any
visitor, that their life expectancy is
around 50 - 60 years, just like any
other region of northern Pakistan."
It would seem that there are people in Hunza who tell visitors that they are of an advanced age but they are unable to provide any proof, the whole myth around the Hunza people was due to a scientist being hoodwinked in 1973. Generally the population in Hunza does seem to be reasonably long lived and the elderly in the village are in a good mental and physical state as noted by Dr Alexander Leaf at a later date:
Longevity. The longevity claims made
for Hunzukuts by foreign visitors vary
considerably, with the highest
estimate being 150 years of age. Renee
Taylor writes in her book Hunza Health
Secrets for Long Life and Happiness:
“In Hunza, people manage to live to
over 100 years of age in perfect
mental and physical health . . . men
of 90 [are] new fathers and women of
50 still conceive.” Betty Lee Morales,
president of the American Cancer
Society and a 2-time visitor to Hunza,
reported to the Los Angeles Times
(July 16, 1973), “It’s an exaggeration
to say that they live to be 150 but
there’s no need to gild the lily. The
average age is 90 when they die.” Dr.
Alexander Leaf, Chief of Medical
Services at Massachusetts General
Hospital and a professor at Harvard
Medical School, has reliably reported
meeting a 106-year-old man who still
worked herding goats during the summer
months, while “the oldest Hunzukut”
was “revered” for being 110. Dr. Leaf
also has pointed out that it is “the
fitness of many of the elderly rather
than their age that impresses me,” and
he has noted that no written records
of births or deaths were then kept in
Hunza. According to the Mir of Hunza,
out of a present population of 40,000,
6 men are over 100 years of age and
many are 90 years old or more. (Before
the 1st road came, there were at least
50 over the age of 100.) In America,
by contrast, there are only 3
centenarians for every 100,000 people.
Generally there is no evidence for anybody living to an age of 200 years, the oldest people we know of all all well short of the magic 200 mark (I know it's wiki, but it has a well formatted list of all the names).
As for living without food or water, it's a well known fact that we need water to live and you can on average only survive 3-5 days without it. Of course there may be some exceptional circumstances where people have managed to go an extra day or two, but months without water is not possible.
Humans need water to live, plain and
simple. We lose water through sweat,
urine, feces and even breathing. This
water needs to be replaced in order
for our organs to continue to work
properly. In severe heat, an adult can
lose as much as 1.5 liters of water
through sweat alone [source:
Scientific American]. The main risk
without water in high heat is that
your body temperature will continue to
rise and you'll suffer from heat
stroke. Drinking water will cool you
down and lower your core temperature.
We also need food, without any calorific intake we would run out of energy pretty quickly and eventually die. How long you can go without food depends on muscle and fat stores and the body can live off them for quite some time. Prisoners on hunger strikes have lived 73 days without food,
British Prime Minister Margaret
Thatcher refused to bend, however. The
prisoners drank small amounts of
water, but refused food altogether.
Sands died from starvation in a prison
hospital on the 66th day of the
strike. Thatcher remained steadfast
and called Sands a criminal and his
death a suicide. Nine more prisoners
died from starvation after Sands.
Thomas McElwee lasted the longest, at
73 total days -- a full week longer
than the next closest prisoner
[source: irishhungerstrike.com.
The only evidence I can find of anyone coming near to living up to the breatharian ideal is Prahlad Jani who appears to have been able to survive for 15 days in hospital without food or water.
- Hindu Times Link
- DNA India Link
However there is controversy over the results as Prahlad Jani was not under constant supervision and no independant review of the results has been allowed.
Jani's handlers did not allow
Edamaruku and his associates to be
involved in the testing of Jani in
2003. Nor were they allowed to be involved in the recent re-testing.
According to Edamaruku:
I asked to be allowed to send an independent team to survey the room
where this test is taking place, but I
was repeatedly turned down. It is
ridiculous to ask people to believe
that any man can go 15 days, let alone
70 years, without food or water.
Dr. Shah has been in charge of three similar investigations over the
past ten years, and he has never
allowed independent verification. In
2000, he was asking for funds to
investigate a man he claimed got his
energy from the sun, just like plants
do. In 2003, he even approached NASA
for funds to investigate Mr. Jani,
claiming astronauts might benefit from
the research. This particular
hospital, led by this particular
doctor, keeps on making these claims
without ever producing evidence or
publishing research.
So in summary, we know that we die after about 5 days of no water, the longest hunger strike I can find is 73 days and we also know that the claims made about people living to the age of 200 are false. The only glimmer of hope (A man who appears to have survived 15 days without food or water) appears to be false, So I can say quite conclusivly that anybody surviving on air and sunlight alone doesn't have very long to live...
