Doctors baffled as Indian man claims not to have eaten for 68 years!

[Laisrean]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1516&ncid=1516&e=1&u=/afp/20031124/od_afp/india_old_health_offbeat_031124112815

I wonder if he has hunger pangs. :hairraise

[FeatherGoblinglimmer]

wow is all i can say. I wander if its a hoax or not.

[WandererInGray]

*smiles* There are a great many Hindu and Buddhist stories of great brahmins going for ages without food or water. So it's not too hard for me to believe.

[Kaylara]

He gets the Elixer of life through the hole in is palate? Does that mean that he eats boogers?

[WitchJezebel]

He gets the Elixer of life through the hole in is palate? Does that mean that he eats boogers?


:lol: :geez:

Pretty amazing if it's true.

[~ Monk ~]

Wow. And I'm proud of myself if I go without eating pizza for a month...:hehehe:

[Gareth]

He gets the Elixer of life through the hole in is palate? Does that mean that he eats boogers?
:sick: That's just nasty! :T

[BleedingGraves]

I wonder if we could tempt him with a big mac?

[Muireannach]

The buddhist and hindu religions ahve been masters of controlling their own bodies and willpower, as was mentioned earlier, but this I find very hard to beleive. Nutrients that are essential to life cannot simply be derived from air. I sense a scam personally...

[Laisrean]

http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_473961,0008.htm

It is true! :hairraise

[Sequoia]

I believe it. . . perhaps he drinks some special kind of liquid that sustains him?

[Laisrean]

Here is yet another articlw. http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php?id=13319688

What I find fascinating is that it says a human cannot go more than 7 days without urinating and he didn't for at LEAST 11 days, and if what he says is true, 68 years.