Living on Light

I ran across this while I was browsing the internet. I'm surprised that it never came up before. It's a theory (or lifestyle, religious practice, or philosophy depending on what source you look at) that suggests the human body can survive on light (or energy, chi, prana, again depending on the source) alone. I passed by it when searching for "reasons not to eat."

1. Wikipedia

2. Old Breatharianism Page

I think it's a total crock. You can't survive without water for very long... but I am curious as to how long the body can handle a liquid diet. It's well known that figures such as Ghandi fasted for weeks at a time (21 day purification fasts were not uncommon for him - he also lived on a pure fruit diet for much of his young life.) Overall it's still something interesting to consider. [:

Anorexia mirabilis is another interesting one. It basically says that anorexia nervosa is associated with a body image disorder, while anorexia mirabilis is done when a person wants to reach an altered state of being, starves for religious purposes, or other ascetic (a lifestyle characterized by not taking part in various sorts of worldly pleasures) reasons.

Hope it gives you something interesting to read!