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(April 29) -- Prahlad Jani says there's no diet like no diet at all.
The 83-year-old says he hasn't consumed food or water for seven decades, and doctors in India are trying to learn his secrets, or prove once and for all that his 70-year fast has been nothing more than a lengthy hoax.
Jani -- who says he gets all of his sustenance from meditation -- has agreed to spend three weeks in a hospital in Ahmedabad where he'll be observed by a team of 30 doctors, monitored 24 hours a day by cameras, and subjected to tests studying his brain and heart activity.
Sterling Hospitals, AFP / Getty Images
Prahlad Jani says he has survived without food and water for more than seven decades. India's Defense Institute of Physiology & Allied Science is researching the 83-year-old's claims.
"The observation from this study may throw light on human survival without food and water," researcher G. Ilavazahagan told SkyNews. "This may help in working out strategies for survival during natural calamities, extreme stressful conditions and extraterrestrial explorations, like future missions to the moon and Mars by the human race."
Jani's condition is so extraordinary, some military experts wonder if studying him might help them develop supersoldiers.
Since the experiment began on April 22, Jani reportedly hasn't had anything to eat or drink. He also hasn't been to the bathroom.
That apparently is par for the course for the yogi, who says he was blessed by a goddess when he was 8 years old and hasn't needed to consume food or water ever since.
In 2003, Jani -- who reportedly spends much of his time in a cave near a temple for the goddess Ambaji in India's Gujarat state -- underwent a 10-day medical observation, during which he didn't eat, drink, urinate or defecate, according to the BBC.
Although people can survive for several weeks without eating, most can only survive several days without water.
tldr; Man doesn't eat or drink anything for 70 years yet is still alive and is now being monitored by a hospital for 3 weeks
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http://www.aolnews.com/weird-news/article/prahlad-jani-claims-he-hasnt-eaten-or-drunk-anything-in-70-years/19459379
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lol. I first read this as mediCation instead of mediTation.
I'm curious what the doctors will find. I don't believe he can survive for 70 years without food or water but if you are fully aware you are lying about this you won't let yourself be taken to a hospital for observation now would you?
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I have trouble believing this can be even remotely true tbh...
Wondering is he sweats... that should dehydrate him quite fast.
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3 weeks, although impressive, is a bit short if he wants to prove his 70 years story. :p
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Its also bitchin' hot in India, so i doubt he's sweatless.
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I read that news a week ago. He didn't piss or shit for a entire week. Eat or drink = points. But they found that he lost a small amount of weight, so it might be a scam or something.
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it's obviously a scam man.
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On May 04 2010 19:03 GoodCat1 wrote:
can he cast storms?
hahahaha that was awesome
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On May 04 2010 19:03 GoodCat1 wrote:
can he cast storms?
I lol'd
On May 04 2010 19:19 Zurles wrote:
it's obviously a scam man.
This, unless the air overthere is so filled with bugs he can survive on the bugs he breadth in and the moist in the air, but I'm pretty sure on the "this"-part
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On May 04 2010 19:03 GoodCat1 wrote:
can he cast storms?
This or I won't be impressed.
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On May 04 2010 19:03 GoodCat1 wrote:
can he cast storms?
/win
OT - This seems very hoaxy. He probably has a stash of cashew nuts in his cave that he doesn't tell anyone about.
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On May 04 2010 19:03 GoodCat1 wrote:
can he cast storms?
Hahahaha
There has to be more to this however. Lets say its a cold night. He needs to stay warm. The heat produced by the body is energy that he will radiate into the atmosphere. Where does the energy come from if he consumes no food?
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lol this is SOOOOOOOO bullshit it's not funny
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Well, he does look like he has an eating disorder. I can imagine that he can survive without food for a week or two and without water for a few ways. No way his story is true though.
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70 years without eat or drink is for sure a bullshit.
Try to think to the water you loose everyday from your skin, your mouth and your eyes.
Kidneys work is not only to eliminate the water but also to throw out of the body the toxic metabolities.
Not going to the bathroom for three weeks will probably led to death -_-
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lolol 70 years.
you cant survive without water for a week in the best of conditions Xd
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His moms cooking must have been terrible for him to stop eating at age 13.
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