Man claims to not have eaten or drank anything in seventy years

[Klepa]

So if we all just concentrate really really hard, our bodies can function without spending energy?

I don't think Yogi is intentionally lying, I think he believes it himself. If you go malnourished for 70 years, you're probably a fairly gullible person to begin with. Not to mention that half of his brain must be dead from all the nothing he's been giving it, and the other half is failing just from being eighty-goddamn-two.

 

[Artina89]

Don't believe it. I agree with the doctor on this one. I have heard of fasting but thats going a bit extreme in my eyes. I also can't quite comprehend what he is accomplishing by telling everyone either.

 

[SuperGordon]

"A sneaky yogi for certain" is the coolest phrase I have heard all day.

 

[Con Carne]

I call Shenanigans!

 

[Superior Mind]

Sounds like the man's got a full blown case of the crazies. By the look of some of those comments it looks like it may be contageous. Facemasks and hand sanitiser people, facemasks and hand sanitiser.

 

[klakkat]

Well, now we can amend some tests; anyone who honestly believes this guy can get handicapped parking stickers, because they're legally retarded, and we didn't even need an IQ test.

 

[klakkat]

I've lasted more then a month without drinking water and I'm fine. So I think that whole 3 day thing is bull.

While I highly doubt your claim, the 3 days thing is more a guideline anyway. Mostly to emphasize to people that in a survival situation, you need to think about getting water first. Actual duration depends on climate, activity level, personal health, and stored water levels, and probably some other factors I'm forgetting or don't even know about.

 

[Gardenia]

Sadly, poor areas with an uneducated population is fertile ground for charlatans and tricksters. What boggles me is how many comments from the US defending the man's claims that article has gotten.
like this one:

Spoiler

What this ogi is doing has been done by yogi's for millenia. It is an amazing feat in that it is real and it took this particular man an almost inconcievable of discipline to achieve. Our physicists are just beginning to skim the finest surface of understanding of our human potential and while going without food for so long may not seem to serve a purpose - it is one of many ways to make the journey inward that we all must make eventually. We are all connected and when one achieves the level of discipline and inward seeking that this man has - it is for all of us.

John Patton (Monday, May 10, 2010 8:27 PM)

This makes me very sad indeed.

 

[afaceforradio]

It's not biologically possible. He's lying.

 

[klakkat]

Sadly, poor areas with an uneducated population is fertile ground for charlatans and tricksters. What boggles me is how many comments from the US defending the man's claims that article has gotten.
like this one:

Spoiler

What this ogi is doing has been done by yogi's for millenia. It is an amazing feat in that it is real and it took this particular man an almost inconcievable of discipline to achieve. Our physicists are just beginning to skim the finest surface of understanding of our human potential and while going without food for so long may not seem to serve a purpose - it is one of many ways to make the journey inward that we all must make eventually. We are all connected and when one achieves the level of discipline and inward seeking that this man has - it is for all of us.

John Patton (Monday, May 10, 2010 8:27 PM)

This makes me very sad indeed.

My first thought there (besides "wow that guy is naive") is "why the hell did he mention a Physicist?" I'm pretty sure a nutritionist or biologist might have a lot more to say on the matter than a physicist. Pretty much all we physicists can say is "wow those people are gullible."

 

[Audio]

Women across the glob read with interest as anorexia doesnt look so hard any more D:

 

[ydkwidrmw]

why would you wait 70 years before telling anyone? if he could survive for even a month it would be newsworthy

 

[ethaninja]

I've lasted more then a month without drinking water and I'm fine. So I think that whole 3 day thing is bull.

While I highly doubt your claim, the 3 days thing is more a guideline anyway. Mostly to emphasize to people that in a survival situation, you need to think about getting water first. Actual duration depends on climate, activity level, personal health, and stored water levels, and probably some other factors I'm forgetting or don't even know about.

Hmm. Well I live in eastern Australia. I'm carnivorous. Oh, I drink a lot of coke. Would that surfice for water? Because I haven't had any actual water in literaly months. I don't do much exercise though, so that might be why.

 

[Pegghead]

My uncle told me about this, sure it was the eve of his nieces wedding and he'd had a bit too much of the old vino but he did say that most of the townsfolk he's surrounded by reckon he's a crook.

 

[James Hueick]

Either he has rapid short term memory loss syndrome, and doesn't remember eating or drinking anything... Or this whole story is total bullshit

 

[Cheeseman Muncher]

Yeah, there is no way this is possible. Either the guy is forgetting he's eating and drinking or he's talking out his arse. The human body can last about a month without food depending on your level of body fat but considering the guy is stick thin, I'd be surprised if he lasted 5 minutes.

 

[iLikeHippos]

Ugh...
I almost don't feel like commenting, since it's obvious BEE ESS!

I didn't even bother to read the news in the topic.
It's all so... So... I can't find a word for it.

 

[Yumi_and_Erea]

Folks, I'm not denying that the human body is capable of some extraordinary things.
Budhist monks have been known to burn to death without crying out in pain, or even so much as making a sound.

Regardless, I don't believe this man, or his story.
The human body can achieve almost supernatural feats during times of great distress, but not over the long term.

There is no way in hell that someone can go 70 years without food or water.

Frankly, this kind of thing makes me reconsider my opinion on yogi's.
I was always under the impression that they were disciplined but easygoing, openminded individuals who focused on themselves and their place in the universe but this man, quite obviously, is either demented with old age or an attention-whore.

I pity the people who take this article seriously.

 

[Radelaide]

I've lasted more then a month without drinking water and I'm fine. So I think that whole 3 day thing is bull.

If you were drinking fluids with certain ingredients, then you can survive. Also, the food you'd eat (meat, veggies, etc) contain a certain amount of water too.

It's physically impossible to go for 70 years without food or water. The human body is made mostly of water, and without replacing water and electrolytes frequently, that would kill you. Let alone not eating as well (which doesn't kill you as fast. The body has mechanisms to go around that). He would have taken water in "accidently" when gargling. It is simply not possible to do.

This story is only believed by very gullible people.

 

[klakkat]

I've lasted more then a month without drinking water and I'm fine. So I think that whole 3 day thing is bull.

While I highly doubt your claim, the 3 days thing is more a guideline anyway. Mostly to emphasize to people that in a survival situation, you need to think about getting water first. Actual duration depends on climate, activity level, personal health, and stored water levels, and probably some other factors I'm forgetting or don't even know about.

Hmm. Well I live in eastern Australia. I'm carnivorous. Oh, I drink a lot of coke. Would that surfice for water? Because I haven't had any actual water in literaly months. I don't do much exercise though, so that might be why.

Uh, yes, that still counts as water. While you need a reasonably high tolerance for caffeine for coke to be as effective as water, it can certainly be done; and judging by the fact you don't drink anything else, I'd say you surpassed that tolerance a long time ago. Try doing that with Rum, like sailors used to... you need a pretty absurd alcohol tolerance for that to be as effective as water (otherwise, it'll kill you; alcohol dehydrates).