Breathatarian.Can anyone train his body to live without food?
By polachicago
@polachicago (18716)
United States
March 4, 2007 3:04pm CST
Most conscious people are vegetarian, vegan, raw foodist, fruitarian or frugavorist; and a few are breathatarian.
Breathatarians do not believe in the consumption of food at all. They believe in absorbing nutrients from the sun, air, and sometimes water.
Just look to Epiphytes for inspiration and obtain our nourishment from air and dew. If it is good enough for bromeliads, orchids, lichens, the Southeast Asian Ant plant and the Strangling Fig, it is good enough for us.
Can anyone train his body to live without food?
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@michelledarcy (5220)
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4 Mar 07
I was just reading about Breathatarians as I had never heard of them before. It is really interesting to think that we can survive without food or water, especially since I'm hypoglycaemic so find it hard to go without food for a few hours let alone a few days.
I wanted to find out more about it but was interested to see that Wikipedia doesn't have anything about it.
To be honest I'm not keen on it being something a lot of people have heard of as it will be another arguement that meat eaters can use to say that I can't be that caring as a vegan or else I wouldn't eat vegetables either as they are living too.
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@polachicago (18716)
• United States
4 Mar 07
I think it is more like temporarly movement to clean your body from toxins. As you know Budda was teaching his students how to breath and eat vegan diet. Proper breathing and eliminating amount of consuming food is associated with vegan diet. An average person eats 60% more than his/her body needs for living.
I think that we should be breathatarians for 3-4 days per month.
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@answerguy (57)
• Canada
5 Mar 07
I agree with breatharatarianism as a temporary cleansing activity. But it's not healthy to live your entire life like this.
I am a vegan, and I eat mostly raw fruits and vegetables. I have fish once a week to kick up some of the enzymes that vegetables don't have, but otherwise I never eat meat or dairy products.
But being a vegan isn't about my love for animals. I really don't care about the fact they're slaughtered to make food... doesn't matter. What I care about is that the human body is not SUPPOSED to eat that crap, and that's why there is such an epidemic of obesity and allergies and whatever else in kids and adults. I don't have a single allergy, I've been sick with a cold maybe once in the last three years, and I am in great shape. It's not that excercise (walk to work and back every day but that's about it), it's that I don't put chemically suffocated junk into my body all day.
Check out Hacres.com for some info on changing your lifestyle.
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@balthazar_196 (566)
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4 Mar 07
I would have thought its physicially impossible i mean it would have killed you within a matter of weeks because the food needs the energy supplied from food.
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@milagre (1272)
• Portugal
5 Mar 07
I heard about it, but never done a reshearch. Its an interesting subject. However dont understand how can it be possible and, really, im not jolking with the situation, but if that could be possible it would be a way of ending the starvation in the world! Have anyone here met any of this persons that is doing breathatarian? Its the theory is ok, but Since ever, animals needed to eat to survive! I will check it out.
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@polachicago (18716)
• United States
5 Mar 07
my friend is temporarly breathatarian...he train himself for 6 months...I think he want to do it twice a year for one week at the time.
@urbandekay (18278)
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5 Mar 07
Going without food for one week at a time is called fasting
all the best urban
@Lakota12 (42600)
• United States
5 Mar 07
Native American word for Bad Hunter - Burning Man - tribe.netWell now we know who has a sence of humor and who doesn't Just be happy Brocolli doesn't scream when you kill it. Then you'd be a breathatarian ...
see what I mean this is one thing I found on it
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@manong05 (5027)
• Philippines
5 Mar 07
I know some people are fasting for a number of days for health reasons, i. e. to detoxify the system which I was told is medically acceptable. Some are doing hunger strike which is actually for entirely different reasons altogether but they can only do it for a certain period and eventually collapsed and had to be fed intra-venously in order to survive. I don't know anything about breathatarianism as a way of life. Off hand, I think it's impossible or I have yet to see someone who can do it even with just water intake alone.
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@polachicago (18716)
• United States
5 Mar 07
yes, some yogins are doing it....breathatarians claim to be prepared, but for most of us it is not real.....
@urbandekay (18278)
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5 Mar 07
There is no evidence that any yogis can do this, they just hoodwink the gullible
all the best urban
@bandu123 (70)
• India
5 Mar 07
yes there are some people in india probably the sadhus who get their energy to live from sun.they do the yogic actions to get the energy for our living which we normally get by eating food. but these things are not possible for all men . it is only for handful people.
@polachicago (18716)
• United States
5 Mar 07
yes, breathatarians are talking about yogic actions....
@gobindsing (470)
• India
9 Feb 08
Very Interesting, yes it is possible to live without food and water, it requires many years of training and different stages of Yoga that you have to attain. This is about bringing down the metabolism rate of the body to a point that only the nutrients in the air are sufficient to provide the necessary elements for the human body to stay alive. Only a true Yogi who has advanced through the trainings can reach this stage. This is something that cannot be explained fully here. About metabolism, there was an experiment done on a cockroach, it was sealed in an air tight jar for 1 year, no food and water, and when opened, the cockroach was alive and had no signs of abnormality. It is possible to do this through Yoga, if you are totally committed and prepared for the training.
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@polachicago (18716)
• United States
9 Feb 08
Wow, cockroach can, so maybe we can do the same....
Agree, we need to be train how to do it...:)
@livewyre (2450)
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5 Mar 07
Are you really serious? some of the posts here are hilarious, one saying yes it is possible but you need a lot of training (forgot to say the training will kill you...).
Oh dear, I don't want to sound dismissive, but this is either insane or very funny. Just so you know, plants and humans are not the same species... I don't identify wholeheartedly with the strangling fig.
I am perfectly concious thanks and I intend to stay that way by eating a nice ham sandwich in a short while...
@polachicago (18716)
• United States
5 Mar 07
...I guess I am serious only as much as breathatarians are...my friend trained himself for 6 months and he wants to be temporarly breathatarian....for one week every 6 months...
He was my inspiration for this topic....just an open question...
@livewyre (2450)
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5 Mar 07
OK I guess this is a bit like having a Detox.. but I think you should only do this with guidance from a doctor. I have a fast metabolism meaning I eat frequently and burn a lot of energy, it wouldn't do for me....
I don't see any value in the idea, but if you are sensible about it, you probably won't be permanently damaged!
@Gigglygrrl (362)
• United States
5 Mar 07
I watched a very dark but extremely funny show called Starved on FX. They talked about these Breathatarians and actually made an episode about them. It was hysterical! People, animals, etc need food. I do not buy into this at all. But it made for hilarious TV!
@polachicago (18716)
• United States
6 Mar 07
:)...this is what discussion is all about, people who say what they have seen or hear and make commends...:)thank you
@adidas7878 (1891)
• United States
6 Mar 07
very intersting topic, i dont think i can do it, i find it impossible for other people to do it too, how can people live without food for a long period by drinking water, i though the max of day you can live without food and on water only is a month unless they change that.
@polachicago (18716)
• United States
6 Mar 07
....depends...but probably about one month....
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@adidas7878 (1891)
• United States
6 Mar 07
maybe i should try that for a month i think i can stand lose 20-30 lbs lol
@FrancyDafne (2047)
• Italy
11 Mar 07
I'm vegetarian because of my ethical opinions: freedom for every kind of animal and stop to tortures and meat and fish consumption.
It would be wonderful to live without eating anything, but is this really possible? Who hnows, in future, the human being will be able to do everything he/she wants....
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@LittleMel (8742)
• Canada
7 Feb 08
although I do not eat much I don't think it's possible to not eat at all and yet stay alive. It is possible not to eat at all for 3 days, provided you stay at home, no physical activity and drink water. I never try this myself but I heard someone did it.
@coffeeshot (3783)
• Australia
6 Mar 07
COnsidering we hardly use 10% of our brains, I think it is definitely feasible for someone to train their body to live without food and water.
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@polachicago (18716)
• United States
6 Mar 07
maybe without food, without water we die in matter of days...
@polachicago (18716)
• United States
6 Mar 07
yes, you are correct about Aliens, nobody report them eating...
@urbandekay (18278)
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5 Mar 07
No, these people are madder than mad Jack MacMad, winner of last years Mr Mad competition, on a particularly mad day. No one has ever succesfully been shown to have done this
all the best urban
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@astromama (1221)
• United States
5 Mar 07
You should look into 'Survival Guide for the 21st Century'... it has a lot of stuff on breathetarians, fruitarians, etc... as well as lots of recipes for fermenting your own food, food storage, etc. I don't feel breathatarianism or any other extreme is for me personally, but I am fascinated by prolonged fasting and the detox process. I would think it would only work if you lived somewhere with relatively clean air. But i do think it is possible to obtain nourishment from sunlight, air and water... I don't know how long one could survive this way, but I do find the subject fascinating. I also think the person's nourishment comes partly from a divine source. As you said, usually these are highly conscious persons who attempt this. Your average anorexic would surely die of liver, heart, or kidney failure after a short time with no nourishment. I feel this is somehow different.
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@polachicago (18716)
• United States
5 Mar 07
Thank you, I am going to buy it....agree with prolonging fasting....
@chefedccp (14)
• United States
5 Mar 07
almost.
you would have to start from a young age.
or slowly take in less every day.
I would not recomend it without prayer
@sandy1977 (5)
• India
5 Mar 07
ofcourse why not !! In Indian i was recentlly going thru a T.V documentry which showed a man who is physically fit and active without food for last
"7" years. He has trained his body to derive all the energy from sunlight. He stands naked in sunlight for approx 2 hrs/day and thats it. Its like solar bodies(Energy saving)
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@polachicago (18716)
• United States
5 Mar 07
amazing...only people from India say that is possible...maybe, because of long years of information taken from yogins...
@Karmalina (647)
• Australia
5 Mar 07
Honestly, I believe that it's a shame to even completely give up foods you enjoy. Giving it up altogether, even if I could and be healthy would greatly lower my quality of life. I believe maybe by some fluke someone might be able to do this, but why bother? *eats her grilled cheese happily*
@omnithought (199)
• United States
5 Mar 07
Most "conscious" people? I remember talking that way when I thought I was somehow "higher" or "more spiritual" than all the poor "sleeping" souls out there, but it's nothing short of arrogance.
Also, no one can live on just air and water. We aren't plants. We have different physical needs, and no amount of "training" can make it possible.
We're natural omnivores, and there's nothing wrong with it.
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