70 years without eating food.
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A team of military doctors backed by India's national defence research centre is studying an 83-year-old holy man who claims to have spent seven decades surviving without food or water.
The long-haired and bearded yogi, Prahlad Jani, has been sealed in a hospital in the western city of Ahmedabad where he is under 24-hour observation by 30 doctors and will be subjected to a series of medical tests.
"The observation from this study may throw light on human survival without food and water," doctor G. Ilavazahagan, director of India's Defence Institute of Physiology and Allied Sciences (DIPAS), told AFP.
The DIPAS is part of the Defence Research and Development Organisation, India's state defence and military research institute also behind a grenade packed with chilli powder that recently hit headlines.
"This may help in working out strategies for survival during natural calamities, extreme stressful conditions and extra-terrestrial explorations like future missions to the Moon and Mars by the human race," Ilavazahagan said.
The tests on Jani include magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans, measuring brain and heart activity with electrodes and other neuro-physiological studies, in addition to blood tests.
The experiment started on April 22 and will take 15-20 days. Since the beginning, Jani has neither eaten nor drunk and has not been to the toilet, Ilavazahagan said.
"The exercise of taking this yogi under the medical scanner is to understand what energy supports his existence," he added, explaining that soldiers could benefit from his apparent ability to survive.
"Jani says he meditates to get energy. Our soldiers will not be able to meditate, but we would still like to find out more about the man and his body," he said.
Neurologist Sudhir Shah, who studied Jani in 2003 and is part of the new experiment, said that the extremely skinny but apparently active man faced round-the-clock observation.
"Two stationary 24-hour video cameras have been set up in his room, while a mobile video camera follows him whenever he needs to step outside," he said.
Jani, who dresses in red and wears a nose ring, grew up in Charod village in the Mehsana district in Gujarat and claims to have been blessed by a goddess aged eight, which has enabled him to survive without sustenance.
Shah said that Jani told him the key to his survival was a mystical and unexplained process by which he receives drops of water through a hole in his palate.
Analysis of data, to determine his secret or expose his fraudulence, will take at least two months, the doctors said.
Fasting is a part of Indian culture, made famous by independence leader Mahatma Gandhi, who brought himself to the brink of death on several occasions by refusing food and water to protest against colonial rule.
A monk from India's minority Jain religion -- devout followers of which undertake frequent fasts, sometimes to death -- claims to have deprived himself of food for one year, which is believed to be a record
"If you're busy with something you don't feel hunger, thirst, or the heat and cold," said Sri Sahaj Muni Maharaj, who took daily glasses of warm water during his fast which ended on May 1998.
"I'm busy contemplating the infinite," he told India's Outlook magazine one month before the end of his experiment.
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Whoa. i don't I can live without food and water for 70 years.
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pls.....everyone on this walking planet will rush to him and Food product companies file for chapter 11....
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Chapter eleventh somemore
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Saving money ? his a pro in that ask him.
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Originally posted by TTFU:
"Jani says he meditates to get energy. Our soldiers will not be able to meditate, but we would still like to find out more about the man and his body," he said.
I love this sentence. They actually had the intention to use it on soldiers?!?! -
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I think the goverment wants undead soldiers to fight for them, best is dont eat food and dont die after getting blasted.
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and the biggerest Don't "Sleep"
the notion of Faster, cheaper and better....
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the newspaper said this man did not go to the toilet during their observations since Apr.22. anybody knows any meditation centre ? i want to master the skill.
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india sure likes to come up with funny people... there was once that woman that rub chilli in her own eyes, and then there was this guy that can look directly at the sun with his eyes open and now this guy that survives without eating and drinking...
I wonder when we can see one that dont sleep for decades...
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Originally posted by MaNyZeR:
india sure likes to come up with funny people... there was once that woman that rub chilli in her own eyes, and then there was this guy that can look directly at the sun with his eyes open and now this guy that survives without eating and drinking...
I wonder when we can see one that dont sleep for decades...
add to the list...There's this guy who can survive electricity pass thru his body...
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interesting..I'll wanna know the biological process behind his survival
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There is a type of fish that can survive without food.
Because, somehow this fish, photosynthesis... -
There's this guy limbs can stetch like plastic - that one in street fighter call dhalsim.
Also one fact confirmed all their movies in the middle in between everyone must dance, be it love, action, ghost or thrillers.
confirmed their nuclear weapons warhead full of curry powder
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Chili powder bombs
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WOW! I wanna study him too!
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din they had some indian guy in past claiming he made petrol out of his b ackyard from a jungle plant ??
and whats so odd about a guy not going to toilet since april 22nd or only 8 days?
i dont need to goto toilet fer a month and also never complain!!!indian hoaxers i tell u!!:)
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Wow that's some serious constipation if you HAD been eating but not shitting for a month! For this dhalsim he had not eaten nor drink water so that explains for zero outputs since the digestive systems of a human body extract wasted from food we consume. No food sure no shit.
This is just one individual so special. They are not all the same so i think they can save it from the military. Ask the soldiers not to eat where to get the energy to even move a limb.
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No in sure no out.
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Originally posted by Hitman+:
din they had some indian guy in past claiming he made petrol out of his b ackyard from a jungle plant ??
and whats so odd about a guy not going to toilet since april 22nd or only 8 days?
i dont need to goto toilet fer a month and also never complain!!!indian hoaxers i tell u!!:)
LOL. don't tell me you don't urinate for 1 month. if yes, i will contact the scientists to put you on observations too.
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this kind of tua pow story is really taking it too far haha.
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I will like to go into battle with an army of people not eating or having food for a month. We need not go into the field with any weapons. Just with charsiew fan and lor mee, pork also can. See their will stronger or stomach weaker. see their faith and belief also strong or not. A contridiction of will, hunger and faith. Want to eat also don't dare to eat hahaha.
sure win one
so what's the next weapon type?
Balistics?
Type - long range missile
warhead - conventional
Payload - curry powder
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actually...its the gal chili/...latest indian army weapon.that chilli is 100 times more hotter than normal ones.
are times dat bad in india now???
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chilli curry also lethal. imagine those exploding in mid air. our air will be hot and our eyes in tears.
this is just to make news. clearly the will and 'powes' of this man not eating for 70 years draws from his yoga practise. something he might had started since young. will and mind state changes his body behaviour making him able to adapt to a life without food. one in millions special person i say. while most other normal yoga masters i see before are muscular and piak piak plump. not like dhalsim trust me.
support araphoe let's file for chapter 11.