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Originally posted by boncho
Your body can only metabolize certain things. Just like plants need sunlight and water to grow, you need a variety of sugars (Carbohydrates), proteins and fats.
So is there some magic box we can plug ourselves into? No. We can take nutritional replacements but they taste awful and are hard on the stomach.
Unfortunately, raw base materials found in food-processed into replacements-not only taste awful, but are hard to digest.
Naturally grown, unprocessed food has so much more than just nutrients in it, and it will forever be the best source of energy for people.
Unless they perfect that lab grown meat they are working on.. That might work too.
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Originally posted by Nurelic
reply to post by mayabong
I think I have heard about him before. He stares directly at the sun everyday too right? Has he gone blind as a result?
Very fascinating stuff.
Maybe so, but I think you are looking at things too closely. If you look at the bigger picture, everything is just different vibrations of light. The 3rd eye when working properly may act as some sort of prism, to break sunlight down into the slower vibrations needed for the body to ingest. the following is a paper written by some indian scientists when studying HRM back in 2001. www.amazingabilities.com...
Neither the experiment, as described in the paper, nor the paper itself have been validated by any other well-known scientific or medical journal.
A third study allegedly lasted for 130 days in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at Thomas Jefferson University and the University of Pennsylvania under the direction of Dr. Andrew Newberg and Dr. George C. Brainard.
Dr Sudhir Shah, who led the previous study, acted as an advisor and consultant to the USA team.
However, Dr. Andrew Newberg said that Hira stayed at the University of Pennsylvania only for brain scans on studies of meditation, not his ability to fast indefinitely.
Originally posted by Nurelic
reply to post by Aim64C
hmm... so energy-to-matter conversion won't work... Then is it possible to transform matter into energy? To basically turn a human into a more highly charged, highly energized being that doesn't require as much food?
Originally posted by hoochymama
Staring into the Sun may not be a bad thing. Have you seen the Sun lately?? WOW. Incredible.
I believe in Mind over Matter, so, if someone thinks they can be more health living on Greens alone than so be it??
The deaths of 49-year-old Australian-born Scotland resident Verity Linn, 31-year-old Munich preschool teacher Timo Degen, and 53-year-old Melbourne resident Lani Marcia Roslyn Morris while attempting the breatharian "diet" advocated by Jasmuheen have elicited criticism.[6][7]
Jim Vadim Pesnak, 63, and his wife Eugenia, 60, went to jail for six and two years on charges of manslaughter for their involvement in the death of Morris, when Pesnak delayed seeking medical attention.[20] Jasmuheen claimed that Linn's death had a psycho-spiritual, rather than physiological, source.
Jasmuheen (born Ellen Greve) was a prominent advocate of breatharianism in the 1990s. She claimed "I can go for months and months without having anything at all other than a cup of tea. My body runs on a different kind of nourishment."[] Interviewers found her house stocked with food; Jasmuheen claimed the food was for her husband.
Originally posted by boncho
reply to post by mayabong
Maybe so, but I think you are looking at things too closely. If you look at the bigger picture, everything is just different vibrations of light. The 3rd eye when working properly may act as some sort of prism, to break sunlight down into the slower vibrations needed for the body to ingest. the following is a paper written by some indian scientists when studying HRM back in 2001. www.amazingabilities.com...
Perhaps you're not looking at the bigger picture.
Neither the experiment, as described in the paper, nor the paper itself have been validated by any other well-known scientific or medical journal.
A third study allegedly lasted for 130 days in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at Thomas Jefferson University and the University of Pennsylvania under the direction of Dr. Andrew Newberg and Dr. George C. Brainard.
Dr Sudhir Shah, who led the previous study, acted as an advisor and consultant to the USA team.
However, Dr. Andrew Newberg said that Hira stayed at the University of Pennsylvania only for brain scans on studies of meditation, not his ability to fast indefinitely.
His team of "scientists" seem to tell stories and make things up. That's usually a bad sign to the validity of their other "research". If you call it that.
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Originally posted by boncho
Unless they perfect that lab grown meat they are working on.. That might work too.
Originally posted by boncho
So is there some magic box we can plug ourselves into? No. We can take nutritional replacements but they taste awful and are hard on the stomach.
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This means, however, that if we humans wanted chloroplasts for ourselves, or our livestock or pets, we would need to genetically modify the host animal to express proteins required for chloroplast function. It has been estimated that about 70-90% of the genes required for chloroplast function are provided by the plant’s genome (Martin et al, 1998).
Photosynthetic efficiency (amount of light energy converted into usable chemical potential energy) typically is about 3-6%, so let’s assume 5. So the energy produced by a human being lying in the sun for an hour (3600 seconds) at midday would be:
400 J/s/m2 x (0.5 x 1.8m2) x 0.05 x 3600s = 64800J = 64.8kJ (or 15.43 kcal)
By comparison, an apple has about 400kJ of usable food energy. So an hour in the sun is about the same as a sixth of an apple. The daily energy requirements for a human being sit around 10,000 kJ per day, so that’s going to require 150 hours per day of sitting in the sun. Needless to say, that’s impossible.