Well - apparently we're all doing it wrong. This explains everything!

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  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    Cliffs notes?
  • snickerscharlie
    snickerscharlie Posts: 8,578 Member
    TavistockToad wrote: »
    Cliffs notes?

    You live on what nature provides you when you breathe, hence "Breatharians." No need for food or water.

    Yeah.
  • amusedmonkey
    amusedmonkey Posts: 10,330 Member
    "We all know the air is light. We all know there is energy in nature," he told CNN. "So there's no way this can be dangerous."
  • gothchiq
    gothchiq Posts: 4,590 Member
    There are no calories in air. No nutrients no anything except the oxygen you need to breathe. Not a suitable nutritive substance. These people are full of crap. If they did what they claim, they would be dead.
  • Sabine_Stroehm
    Sabine_Stroehm Posts: 19,263 Member
    The universe provides them with IV nutrients? lol
  • Catsinsocks
    Catsinsocks Posts: 28 Member
    I'm just jealous of all the money they must save not having to buy food
  • MommyMeggo
    MommyMeggo Posts: 1,222 Member
    Sabine_Stroehm wrote: »
    The universe provides them with IV nutrients? lol

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    Duh!
  • princeofmind
    princeofmind Posts: 95 Member
    Plot twist: They are drinking their calories instead and taking nutrient tablets.
  • SiegfriedXXL
    SiegfriedXXL Posts: 219 Member
    How is this still a thing? It seems to rear its head once a decade. People want to believe in anything except the fact that the only way we lose weight is by not eating to excess and, if we want, moving more to give the CO a boost. Gah!!!
  • GottaBurnEmAll
    GottaBurnEmAll Posts: 7,722 Member
    Well, I had a response, but @snickerscharlie beat me to it ;)
  • Rusty740
    Rusty740 Posts: 749 Member
    I'm totally trying this.


    Until dinner, then I'm eating tasty stuff.
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,205 Member
    *facepalm* these people and the gullible idiots who will believe them.
  • snickerscharlie
    snickerscharlie Posts: 8,578 Member
    GottaBurnEmAll wrote: »
    Well, I had a response, but @snickerscharlie beat me to it ;)

    @GottaBurnEmAll : Yes, I forgot to credit the eye-rolly brain scan to its amazing source. <3
  • newheavensearth
    newheavensearth Posts: 870 Member
    I had to do a 3 day fast for a glucose and insulin test. I was hospitalized, no food, no IV nutrition, only limited water, and risk of unconciousness. I was a rip roaring, hangry hot mess and telling off everybody. I needed a Snickers was an understatement.

    This nonsense? Just no.
  • spiffychick85
    spiffychick85 Posts: 311 Member
    What's sad is how many people will try and copy them or even twist this and use it to hide eating disorders.
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,205 Member
    spiffychick85 wrote: »
    What's sad is how many people will try and copy them or even twist this and use it to hide eating disorders.

    Sadly accurate.
  • KateTii
    KateTii Posts: 886 Member
    It's sad that these people are trying to claim this is a thing when there are millions of people starving in the world. If we could live off air, we wouldn't have people starving to death.
  • PaulaWallaDingDong
    PaulaWallaDingDong Posts: 4,641 Member
    I got the asthma. Can I do this diet?
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,205 Member
    KateTii wrote: »
    It's sad that these people are trying to claim this is a thing when there are millions of people starving in the world. If we could live off air, we wouldn't have people starving to death.

    Right? I'm sure they think if all those starving people just aligned their chakras or whatever, they'd be fine.
  • jgnatca
    jgnatca Posts: 14,464 Member
    Who is more exploitative? The con artists promoting this "thing", or the journalist reporting it?

    There's been a couple prosecuted infant deaths in Canada recently where the parents followed unconventional medical and nutritional ideas.

    Not funny at all.

    http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/lethbridge-meningitis-trial-sentence-parents-toddler-died-1.3650653

    http://globalnews.ca/news/3462366/baby-died-from-gluten-free-diet/
  • amusedmonkey
    amusedmonkey Posts: 10,330 Member
    KateTii wrote: »
    It's sad that these people are trying to claim this is a thing when there are millions of people starving in the world. If we could live off air, we wouldn't have people starving to death.

    Apparently it's only possible if you believe it's possible, otherwise is doesn't work. Paraphrasing what he actually said.

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