Diet of Air, Sunshine and Water

brower47
brower47 Posts: 16,356 Member
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I hope this isn't the next fad diet.

//www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/07/navenna-shine-breatharian-light-air-water-no-food_n_3398862.html

The Seattle resident and British native recently embarked on an experiment, titled "Living on Light," in which she nourishes her body much as a plant would: on water, air, and "light." According to Shine, this isn't light in the conventional sense of sunlight, but "a nutritional source already embedded within our body/mind/Spiritual systems."

According to her Facebook page, the 65-year-old is now more than 32 days into the experiment. In order to prove her day-to-day activities don't include nourishing herself, she's posted eight cameras throughout her house, and she claims to never stray from them so as to prove -- definitively -- whether or not eating is a good idea. She's also posting incremental updates on YouTube.


So, in 6 months will she be:
a) Dead
b) Nearly Dead
c) Fabulous
d) Posting here saying she doesn't know what went wrong.
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  • Lifting_Knitter
    Lifting_Knitter Posts: 1,025 Member
    Reading this made me sad. Unfortionately, i think others will try.
  • diodelcibo
    diodelcibo Posts: 2,564 Member
    Once all the protein in her body is gone she is pretty much as good as dead if she doesn't get some soon.
  • WhyFlowersExist
    WhyFlowersExist Posts: 78 Member
    YIKES! How on earth can she think this is a good idea? This women has taken "clean eating" to the extreme.
  • TheBeerRunner
    TheBeerRunner Posts: 2,777 Member
    She's going to kill her metabolism... Hasn't she heard she needs AT LEAST 1200 calories a day? STARVATION MODE!!!!!!!
  • AlexThreeClaw
    AlexThreeClaw Posts: 73 Member
    Reminds me of Prahlad Jani who claims not to have eaten a thing for decades.

    http://www.thecollectiveint.com/2013/05/indian-man-survives-without-food-and.html

    (edited for a typo)
  • Sublimely_Self_Righteous
    Sublimely_Self_Righteous Posts: 429
    YOU PEOPLE ARE INSENSITIVE!! ALL HER LIFE SHE WAS TOLD SHE CAN BE ANYTHING SHE WANTS TO BE WHEN SHE GROWS UP!! SHE CHOSE TO BE A PLANT!

    Sorry, didn't mean to yell, but I just get worked up when people bash someone's dream to turn into a plant. :angry:
  • WhyFlowersExist
    WhyFlowersExist Posts: 78 Member
    YOU PEOPLE ARE INSENSITIVE!! ALL HER LIFE SHE WAS TOLD SHE CAN BE ANYTHING SHE WANTS TO BE WHEN SHE GROWS UP!! SHE CHOSE TO BE A PLANT!

    Sorry, didn't mean to yell, but I just get worked up when people bash someone's dream to turn into a plant. :angry:

    Your so right! Here i thought diet and exercise was the only way to be healthy i totally forgot i have the sheer will power to become anything i want!! Ive been doing it all wrong! WONDER TWIN POWERS ACTIVATE FORM OF A UNICORN!
  • brower47
    brower47 Posts: 16,356 Member
    YOU PEOPLE ARE INSENSITIVE!! ALL HER LIFE SHE WAS TOLD SHE CAN BE ANYTHING SHE WANTS TO BE WHEN SHE GROWS UP!! SHE CHOSE TO BE A PLANT!

    Sorry, didn't mean to yell, but I just get worked up when people bash someone's dream to turn into a plant. :angry:

    I hear photosynthesis is complicated. I'm sure she'll pull it off.:laugh:
  • TheBeerRunner
    TheBeerRunner Posts: 2,777 Member
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  • tigerblood78
    tigerblood78 Posts: 416 Member
    This is the next step of being a vegan.....just become a plant.
  • tinak33
    tinak33 Posts: 9,883 Member
    Pretty sure I read in the article that 4 other "breatharians" died trying to do this. Hmmmm...... Apparently they just did it wrong....?

    ETA:
    http://www.kcci.com/news/national/woman-to-attempt-to-live-on-water-sunlight/-/9357144/20447098/-/4f79jm/-/index.html

    Read that in this article. haha Not the one on this thread.
  • da_bears10089
    da_bears10089 Posts: 1,791 Member
    *kitten*. I want to be a plant! I would save so much money and have a sweet tan.
  • neandermagnon
    neandermagnon Posts: 7,436 Member
    P9cdYh2.jpg

    She's trying to single handedly do what no animal has done in 600 million years of animal evolution, and evolve the ability to photosynthesise. Single handedly. All by herself. And she's not even green.
  • brower47
    brower47 Posts: 16,356 Member
    P9cdYh2.jpg

    She's trying to single handedly do what no animal has done in 600 million years of animal evolution, and evolve the ability to photosynthesise. Single handedly. All by herself. And she's not even green.

    You don't know if she's green or not. She might drive a smart car and recycle.
  • TheBeerRunner
    TheBeerRunner Posts: 2,777 Member
    Is the fact that she lives in Seattle a fatal flaw to this plan?
  • LadyWolf66
    LadyWolf66 Posts: 24 Member
    I've heard of this on an older episode of Wife Swap of all things. I think it's called breatharianism.

    http://www.jasmuheen.com/living-on-light/breatharians/

    This lady says that one can live without water as well.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inedia - Here is another page about it and it was interesting reading the different followers of this.... whatever you call it.

    Me personally? I think I'll stick to a healthy diet *in addition* to the air, sunshine, and water (some breatharians claim you don't even need water).
  • BeachIron
    BeachIron Posts: 6,490 Member
    Is the fact that she lives in Seattle a fatal flaw to this plan?

    At least she'll get plenty of rain
  • neandermagnon
    neandermagnon Posts: 7,436 Member
    P9cdYh2.jpg

    She's trying to single handedly do what no animal has done in 600 million years of animal evolution, and evolve the ability to photosynthesise. Single handedly. All by herself. And she's not even green.

    You don't know if she's green or not. She might drive a smart car and recycle.

    but plants don't drive smart cars or take their waste plastic and glass to the tip, and they can still photosynthesise...
  • neandermagnon
    neandermagnon Posts: 7,436 Member
    Is the fact that she lives in Seattle a fatal flaw to this plan?

    At least she'll get plenty of rain

    She's British, apparently, so maybe she didn't realise that Seattle doesn't get much sun, because it gets more than Britain does and that seems like an awful lot of sun to her.
  • brower47
    brower47 Posts: 16,356 Member
    P9cdYh2.jpg

    She's trying to single handedly do what no animal has done in 600 million years of animal evolution, and evolve the ability to photosynthesise. Single handedly. All by herself. And she's not even green.

    You don't know if she's green or not. She might drive a smart car and recycle.

    but plants don't drive smart cars or take their waste plastic and glass to the tip, and they can still photosynthesise...

    That's only because she hasn't made the transformation yet. And I'm sure responsible plants would do both those things.
  • Joehenny
    Joehenny Posts: 1,222 Member
    Full potato this time
  • chosengiver
    chosengiver Posts: 1,462 Member
    While it may be quite sarcastic and a bit humorous to joke about this woman's idea that she can be "like a plant", this statement alone SHOULD may every taxpayer SICK TO THEIR STOMACH!!!!

    "To her credit, Shine intends to halt the experiment if she notices her health deteriorating (though she appears to have no medical supervision other than "access to Medicare," and a primary care physician who helped establish a "general health baseline")."

    When she has created an electrolyte imbalance the size of the state of Washington inside of her body, WE WILL BE PAYING TO "FIX" HER!!!

    HUMANS, STOP BEING STUPID!!!!

    I mean, at least if people are going to choose to do idiotic things like this, DON'T FORCE ME TO PAY FOR IT!
  • MissesForrester
    MissesForrester Posts: 66 Member
    BUMP! :laugh:
  • neandermagnon
    neandermagnon Posts: 7,436 Member
    P9cdYh2.jpg

    She's trying to single handedly do what no animal has done in 600 million years of animal evolution, and evolve the ability to photosynthesise. Single handedly. All by herself. And she's not even green.

    You don't know if she's green or not. She might drive a smart car and recycle.

    but plants don't drive smart cars or take their waste plastic and glass to the tip, and they can still photosynthesise...

    That's only because she hasn't made the transformation yet. And I'm sure responsible plants would do both those things.

    *visualises a tree driving down the road in a smart car on the way to the tip, the back of the car full of empty glass and plastic bottles and containers*
  • neandermagnon
    neandermagnon Posts: 7,436 Member
    While it may be quite sarcastic and a bit humorous to joke about this woman's idea that she can be "like a plant", this statement alone SHOULD may every taxpayer SICK TO THEIR STOMACH!!!!

    "To her credit, Shine intends to halt the experiment if she notices her health deteriorating (though she appears to have no medical supervision other than "access to Medicare," and a primary care physician who helped establish a "general health baseline")."

    When she has created an electrolyte imbalance the size of the state of Washington inside of her body, WE WILL BE PAYING TO "FIX" HER!!!

    HUMANS, STOP BEING STUPID!!!!

    I mean, at least if people are going to choose to do idiotic things like this, DON'T FORCE ME TO PAY FOR IT!

    if she was a member of my family, I'd try to get her sectioned (committed) because I don't believe that anyone who thinks that they can live off sunshine and/or air, and who deliberately starves themselves, is in their right mind. It's at the very least a serious eating disorder, but I think she's also delusional. She needs mental health treatment *before* she utterly ruins her physical health pursuing this delusional belief.

    And that guy who claims he's lived off air/sunshine/meditation since 1940s should either be sectioned or arrested (depending on whether he's actually delusional, or just an out and out fraud/liar) because he clearly has been eating and his claims are causing other people to copy him and some of them die. If he was really living off nothing, he would not have lost weight while under observation by scientists. He probably has starved himself to the point he has very little lean body mass and his metabolism is slow enough to live off very low number of calories, plus only eating and drinking rarely. But maybe he goes on binges which he forgets about (psychological delusion type issues) or maybe he deliberately eats and drinks in secret just enough to keep him going (i.e. is a fraudster) - but either way he's a danger to impressionable people who were probably already mentally ill when they started buying into his delusional (or fraudulent) way of life.
  • chosengiver
    chosengiver Posts: 1,462 Member
    While it may be quite sarcastic and a bit humorous to joke about this woman's idea that she can be "like a plant", this statement alone SHOULD may every taxpayer SICK TO THEIR STOMACH!!!!

    "To her credit, Shine intends to halt the experiment if she notices her health deteriorating (though she appears to have no medical supervision other than "access to Medicare," and a primary care physician who helped establish a "general health baseline")."

    When she has created an electrolyte imbalance the size of the state of Washington inside of her body, WE WILL BE PAYING TO "FIX" HER!!!

    HUMANS, STOP BEING STUPID!!!!

    I mean, at least if people are going to choose to do idiotic things like this, DON'T FORCE ME TO PAY FOR IT!

    if she was a member of my family, I'd try to get her sectioned (committed) because I don't believe that anyone who thinks that they can live off sunshine and/or air, and who deliberately starves themselves, is in their right mind. It's at the very least a serious eating disorder, but I think she's also delusional. She needs mental health treatment *before* she utterly ruins her physical health pursuing this delusional belief.

    And that guy who claims he's lived off air/sunshine/meditation since 1940s should either be sectioned or arrested (depending on whether he's actually delusional, or just an out and out fraud/liar) because he clearly has been eating and his claims are causing other people to copy him and some of them die. If he was really living off nothing, he would not have lost weight while under observation by scientists. He probably has starved himself to the point he has very little lean body mass and his metabolism is slow enough to live off very low number of calories, plus only eating and drinking rarely. But maybe he goes on binges which he forgets about (psychological delusion type issues) or maybe he deliberately eats and drinks in secret just enough to keep him going (i.e. is a fraudster) - but either way he's a danger to impressionable people who were probably already mentally ill when they started buying into his delusional (or fraudulent) way of life.

    I do see your point here. But even if they buy into it, being delusional or not, I shouldn't have to foot the bill for it!
  • etoiles_argentees
    etoiles_argentees Posts: 2,827 Member
    P9cdYh2.jpg

    She's trying to single handedly do what no animal has done in 600 million years of animal evolution, and evolve the ability to photosynthesise. Single handedly. All by herself. And she's not even green.

    You don't know if she's green or not. She might drive a smart car and recycle.

    but plants don't drive smart cars or take their waste plastic and glass to the tip, and they can still photosynthesise...

    That's only because she hasn't made the transformation yet. And I'm sure responsible plants would do both those things.

    *visualises a tree driving down the road in a smart car on the way to the tip, the back of the car full of empty glass and plastic bottles and containers*

    Ha! :D
  • hannahpistolas
    hannahpistolas Posts: 290 Member
    Was that chick on Wife Swap? If it is, she's cray cray.

    If not, WHAT IS IN THE WATER IN THIS COUNTRY
  • AZKristi
    AZKristi Posts: 1,801 Member
    What an idiot...
  • wadedawg
    wadedawg Posts: 315
    I wish more people would try it. The world needs fewer idiots.

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