Breatharianism

[Tempest]

http://nypost.com/2017/06/15/breatharian-couple-survives-on-the-universes-energy-instead-of-food/

http://nypost.com/2017/06/19/breatharian-no-food-diet-claims-are-a-bunch-of-hot-air-experts-say/

Husband and wife Akahi Ricardo and Camila Castello believe that food and water aren’t necessary and humans can be sustained solely by the energy of the universe.

Castello and Ricardo — who have a 5-year-old son and 2-year-old daughter together — have survived on little else besides a piece of fruit or vegetable broth just three times per week since 2008.

And Castello even practiced a Breatharian pregnancy — not eating anything during the entire nine months that she carried her first child.

“For three years, Akahi and I didn’t eat anything at all and now we only eat occasionally like if we’re in a social situation or if I simply want to taste a fruit.”
“With my first child, I practiced a Breatharian pregnancy. Hunger was a foreign sensation to me, so I fully lived on light and ate nothing.”

“My blood tests during all three trimesters were impeccable and I gave birth to a healthy baby boy.”

“It would be unfair to impose Breatharianism upon our children now, but maybe as they grow, they will get deeper into the practices.”

“This couple’s dietary habits are not only unhealthy but quite dangerous,” Lisa Moskovitz, CEO of New York Nutrition Group, told The Post. “While there have not been vigorous studies on starvation in the human body we know that an individual cannot survive very long without food, and especially not without water.”

“As a mother and a registered dietitian, that makes me angry because there’s so much false information out there and this would really put a mother and her unborn child at risk,” she said. “She would be wasting away, along with that fetus.”

Dr. Roshini Raj, a gastroenterologist and associate professor of medicine at NYU Langone Medical Center, was even more blunt about the couple, calling them “delusional” if they really believe in their diet without food.

“It’s obviously something that’s not based in medical fact,” Raj told The Post. “It’s incompatible with life. There is some evidence that caloric restriction may be beneficial to your health, but certainly nothing to this extreme. If they truly believe it themselves, they’re delusional. There’s just no way it would ever be possible.”

tl;dr a couple claimed that they have been living pretty much without food for 9 years, despite it being impossible

 

[hotcheetospuffs]

http://www.cc.com/video-clips/5pgirv/tosh-0-cewebrity-profile---breatharian

This cracked me up. It won't let me embed the clip : (

 

[heymate]

Is it bad that when I read that they were trying to get nutrients from the sun instead of from food I immediately thought of this?