Can people live without eating?

A woman in the United States has just said that she doesn't need food to live. Scientifically, can humans exist only by light and water?

According to a story on Fox News, Navenna Shine, the founder and main object of the Living on Light experiment, is planning not to touch even a small piece of food and live only. with light, water, tea. According to the website she created at Livingonlight.com, Shine has begun the experiment that many people consider to be 'deadly' , after imitating a group of yoga practitioners who have died. This is a branch of yoga practice, always assuring that they have the ability to live only by breathing air and sun exposure.

Humans are not like plants to be able to live only by sun exposure, sun exposure - (Photo: therockchurches.com)

The ability to self-identify can live without food (sometimes someone even refuses drinking water) is called a hunger strike. A popular version of this hunger strike includes a breathing tribe, teaching people how to survive with only water and sunlight. Shine is just one of the newest and loudest 'disciples' of this branch in the past few years. Although it is thought to have existed for thousands of years, in the modern times only a few people pursue this extraordinary ability. In 2010, an Indian man named Prahlad Jani also stirred up public opinion when claiming that he only swallowed air to live since World War II, not eating or drinking at all.

A hunger strike is very different from the usual fasting way to lose weight, or refusing to eat because you want to oppose certain actions, or psychological disorders like anorexia. Robert Carroll, Dean of the Sacramento City College of Psychology, and author of the Dictionaries of Skeptics, says refusing to eat has a strong spiritual will.'Fasting has long been considered a way to disinfect the body and purify the spirit. This is an action that reminds us of human dependence and weakness, and links us to those suffering from hunger in our daily lives. And the hunger strike is purely mental and pushes fasting to the point of inhumanity , "he said. Temporary fasting is applied in many religions, including Islam and Christianity. In Roman Catholic tradition, some known saints may live for months or even years without eating.

Ms. Navenna Shine - (Photo: now.msn.com)

Not surprisingly, such full-scale hunger strikes are suspected before the eyes of science. The human body needs both food and water to function. Plants can produce their own food through photosynthesis, but how can humans look like plants? Based on many factors, including health status and body size, a person can maintain for about a month without eating, but just not taking a few days is enough to die. If Mrs. Shine wanted to follow in the footsteps of her predecessors, the scientific community had warned in advance that many people deliberately flared and were caught stealthily hiding food with them, because no one could live by just sniffing. breathe air. For example, Wiley Brooks, a famous hunger striker, was caught in a fast food restaurant while not supposed to eat or drink.

Back in Shine's case, this lady is turning fast into a real social media event, using a video camera and creating a Facebook page for others to follow the journey full of hardship. It seems very sincere Shine pursues its efforts, blogging regularly about symptoms such as dizziness, nausea, divine conversations and messages from the universe while body wrestling with delirium. However, the scientists warn that if not careful, she may lose her life if she wants to pursue this path.