Guest guest Posted July 9, 2007 Report Share Posted July 9, 2007 Hi Rodney The article you posted is interesting. I once mentioned that Paramahansa Yogananda, an Indian yogi, wrote in " The Autobiography of a Yogi " about his visit to Therese Neumann of Konnersreuth, who reportedly did not eat anything but the Eucharist past her 20s, a practice called inedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inedia I was clobbered with people saying that this book was as reliable source for scientific information as a Castaneda novel. I was still curious about Therese Neumann, so I ordered her biography and read it. Apparently there are many who truly believed that she did not eat. I bought the book from Amazon. The brief review in the Catholic website I link to here mentions the eating habits of Therese. I think we can all draw our own conclusions as to whether a person can live long without eating. Some who knew Therese thought she was a fraud, just as the article you mentioned questions the sincerity of people who claim to practice inedia. Cheers, Arturo Posted by: " Rodney " perspect1111@... perspect1111 Wed Jul 4, 2007 2:44 pm (PST) Hi folks: Not much going on today so here is an article yer might enjoy. I think this would likely qualify by most definitions of 'EXTREME CR'! As the article says at the end: " .......... and if ever there was an experiment which should not be tried at home, this is it. " Here are the links to it: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html? in_article_id=464814 & in_page_id=1770 http://snipr.com/1nuyp Have a good laugh. Rodney. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 9, 2007 Report Share Posted July 9, 2007 Hi Arturo: The key references in the piece may be: A) That he doesn't eat at all (but it doesn't say he doesn't drink does it?), and " the 58-year-old doctor of chemistry and father of three from Brunswick, northern Germany, claims he gets all the sustenance he needs from the sun. Oh, and the occasional coffee, fruit juice or a glass of wine if he and are enjoying a night out. " IF there is ANY truth to this the explanation may be in the amount of fruit juice he DRINKS and sunshine he gets. If he were consuming 2500 calories of a variety of juices - especially including tomato juice - it is surprising how few nutrient deficiencies result. Twenty-five hundred calories of juice is a little less than two gallons a day. He would maintain his weight. His diet would be totally deficient vitamins D and B12, as well as considerably deficient selenium and to a small extent calcium, depending on which country's RDA you use. The sunshine would provide plenty of vitamin D except in winter. The human body contains many years' supply of vitamin B12, so that may well not have run out yet, even after six years on the diet, although he may very well run out of it soon. Selenium seems to be helpful for protection against cancer. So it is possible that a gross deficiency of that may not show up until much later. (Are there other requirements for selenium?) So perhaps he is simply grossly understating the amount of juice he consumes. The guy is supposed to be a scientist. You would think, wouldn't you, that if there truly was something really remarkable about his dietary intake he would be more than happy to go and be the subject of an experiment for six months to see how many calories he really is consuming? My bet is that when he talks about a couple of fruit juices each 'juice' is about a gallon. Rodney. > > Hi Rodney > > The article you posted is interesting. I once mentioned that Paramahansa Yogananda, an Indian yogi, wrote in " The Autobiography of a Yogi " about his visit to Therese Neumann of Konnersreuth, who reportedly did not eat anything but the Eucharist past her 20s, a practice called inedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inedia > I was clobbered with people saying that this book was as reliable source for scientific information as a Castaneda novel. I was still curious about Therese Neumann, so I ordered her biography and read it. Apparently there are many who truly believed that she did not eat. I bought the book from Amazon. The brief review in the Catholic website I link to here mentions the eating habits of Therese. I think we can all draw our own conclusions as to whether a person can live long without eating. Some who knew Therese thought she was a fraud, just as the article you mentioned questions the sincerity of people who claim to practice inedia. > > Cheers, > Arturo > > Posted by: " Rodney " perspect1111@... perspect1111 > Wed Jul 4, 2007 2:44 pm (PST) > Hi folks: > > Not much going on today so here is an article yer might enjoy. > > I think this would likely qualify by most definitions of 'EXTREME CR'! > > As the article says at the end: " .......... and if ever there was > an experiment which should not be tried at home, this is it. " > > Here are the links to it: > > http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html? > in_article_id=464814 & in_page_id=1770 > > http://snipr.com/1nuyp > > Have a good laugh. > > Rodney. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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