Who’S Heard Of Breatharianism?

[naomi24]

It's a new one on me, but followers of Breatharianism believe food is unnecessary and sunlight can provide all the nourishment the body needs. Michelle Pfeiffer says she was 'saved' from this cult when she was introduced to her first husband, who had been cast in a film about the Moonies, the name given to followers of Rev Moon Sun-myung’s Unification Church. She said that while she was helping him with research “on this cult” she realised she was in one.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/celebritynews/10422883/Michelle-Pfeiffer-The-day-I-realised-I-was-part-of-a-cult.html

I suspect, like most cult leaders, Wiley Brooks is a very rich man.

http://www.breatharian.com/

[pixie373]

Not me- another name for natural selection?

[RATTER15]

Never heard of them, all as mad as a box of frogs for sure!

[Buenchico]

Maybe it works . . .
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1274779/The-man-says-eaten-drunk-70-years-Why-eminent-doctors-taking-seriously.html

or maybe it doesn't . . .
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/453661.stm

[naomi24]

Don't you just hate the way headings to questions appear on here? It makes people appear incapable of stringing a proper sentence together! The capital 'S' at the end of 'who's' is AnswerBank's format - not mine!

[sandyRoe]

Sunlight providing all the nourishment they need? They'd have a lean time of it during our dark and cloudy winter months.

[naomi24]

I think you might have to move to California, or somewhere similar, to reap the full benefit. ;o)

[naomi24]

Chris, good links. Thank you.

[sandyRoe]

Could those obese Americans we sometimes see on the television be living proof that there's something in this? Too much sunlight, rather than too many fries and sugary drinks, have made them what they are.

[ferlew]

Soooooo, they are saying photosynthesis works for humans too ?
What twaddle.

[FredPuli43]

Should be a short-lived cult !

[woofgang]

I have vague memories of this being around in the past...maybe in the sixties/seventies? only it wasnt called that then.

[naomi24]

This possibly?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inedia

I'd heard of the concept, but the link mentions Breatharianism, which I've not heard of until now.

[ferlew]

Well flip me, seems he did need to eat after all
.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inedia#Wiley_Brooks

[FredPuli43]

Haven't there been examples of saintly individuals who miraculously lived on faith alone (probably with a quiet side order of chips) ?

[Peter Pedant]

I thought this lot had been tested to destruction.....

and the girlie in Oz who was hot on it - failed the starvation test.

Clue - her fridge wasnt empty.
O that is for my son she ad-libbed.


Ther has been one death from this
and anorxics tend to be enthusiatic......

[FredPuli43]

Hearing of this cult , and of saintly people who performed or witnessed miracles, reminds me of Gibbon (Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire). He had a delightfully dry sense of humour. He noted that early Christians fervently ascribed miracles. or the witnessing of miracles, to people who had, strangely, failed to mention these remarkable events in their own writings.

[joko]

i heard of one that claimed to live by just staring at the sun ...

[Jeza]

Doctor Barbara Moore, apparently.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Moore_%28vegetarian%29

[joko]

id like to see them recreate the tests here in this country

[FredPuli43]

It hasn't worked for at least one hunger striker in Britain. That is as close to a peer reviewed experiment as we are likely to get !