Inedia, the Glossary
Inedia (Latin for 'fasting') or breatharianism is the claimed ability for a person to live without consuming food, and in some cases water.[1]
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ABC News (United States)
ABC News is the news division of the American television network ABC.
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Adobe Flash
Adobe Flash (formerly Macromedia Flash and FutureSplash) is a discontinuedexcept in China, where it continues to be used, as well as Harman for enterprise users.
Ahmedabad
Ahmedabad (is the most populous city in the Indian state of Gujarat. It is the administrative headquarters of the Ahmedabad district and the seat of the Gujarat High Court. Ahmedabad's population of 5,570,585 (per the 2011 population census) makes it the fifth-most populous city in India, and the encompassing urban agglomeration population estimated at 6,357,693 is the seventh-most populous in India.
Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient Northeast Africa.
Associated Press
The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.
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Australian Skeptics
Australian Skeptics is a loose confederation of like-minded organisations across Australia that began in 1980.
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Autobiography of a Yogi
Autobiography of a Yogi is an autobiography of Paramahansa Yogananda (5 January 1893 – 7 March 1952) published in 1946.
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Ayurveda
Ayurveda is an alternative medicine system with historical roots in the Indian subcontinent.
Aztecs
The Aztecs were a Mesoamerican civilization that flourished in central Mexico in the post-classic period from 1300 to 1521.
Śarabhanga
Śarabhanga is a sage and anchorite mentioned in Book III (Aranya Kanda) of the Ramayana.
Bigu (grain avoidance)
Bigu is a Daoist fasting technique associated with achieving xian "transcendence; immortality".
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British Dietetic Association
The British Dietetic Association (BDA) is a trade union for dietitians in the United Kingdom.
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Buddhism in Nepal
Buddhism in Nepal started spreading since the reign of Ashoka through Indian and Tibetan missionaries.
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Buttermilk
Buttermilk is a fermented dairy drink.
Cardiology
Cardiology is the study of the heart.
Cheeseburger
A cheeseburger is a hamburger with a slice of melted cheese on top of the meat patty, added near the end of the cooking time.
Closed-circuit television
Closed-circuit television (CCTV), also known as video surveillance, is the use of closed-circuit television cameras to transmit a signal to a specific place, on a limited set of monitors.
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CNN
Cable News Network (CNN) is a multinational news channel and website operating from Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by the Manhattan-based media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), CNN was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage and the first all-news television channel in the United States.
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Cola
Cola is a carbonated soft drink flavored with vanilla, cinnamon, citrus oils, and other flavorings.
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Colors (magazine)
Colors (stylised as COLORS) was a quarterly print magazine about 'the rest of the world' funded and published by the Italian Benetton clothing company.
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Comte de Gabalis
Comte de Gabalis is a 17th-century French text by Abbé Nicolas-Pierre-Henri de Montfaucon de Villars (1635–1673).
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Count of St. Germain
The Count of St.
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Dehydration
In physiology, dehydration is a lack of total body water, with an accompanying disruption of metabolic processes.
Devraha Baba
Devraha Baba was an Indian Siddha Yogi saint who lived beside the Yamuna river in Mathura.
Diet Coke
Diet Coke (also branded as Coca-Cola Light, Coca-Cola Diet or Coca-Cola Light Taste) is a sugar-free and low-calorie soft drink produced and distributed by the Coca-Cola Company.
DNA
Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a polymer composed of two polynucleotide chains that coil around each other to form a double helix.
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Fasting
Fasting is abstention from eating and sometimes drinking.
Fasting girl
A fasting girl was one of a number of young Victorian era girls, usually pre-adolescent, who claimed to be able to survive over indefinitely long periods of time without consuming any food or other nourishment.
Feces
Feces (or faeces;: faex) are the solid or semi-solid remains of food that was not digested in the small intestine, and has been broken down by bacteria in the large intestine.
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Glycogen
Glycogen is a multibranched polysaccharide of glucose that serves as a form of energy storage in animals, fungi, and bacteria.
Google Search
Google Search (also known simply as Google or Google.com) is a search engine operated by Google.
Herald Sun
The Herald Sun is a conservative daily tabloid newspaper based in Melbourne, Australia, published by The Herald and Weekly Times, a subsidiary of News Corp Australia, itself a subsidiary of the Murdoch owned News Corp. The Herald Sun primarily serves Melbourne and the state of Victoria and shares many articles with other News Corporation daily newspapers, especially those from Australia.
Hinduism
Hinduism is an Indian religion or dharma, a religious and universal order by which its followers abide.
Hot dog
A hot dog is a dish consisting of a grilled, steamed, or boiled sausage served in the slit of a partially sliced bun.
Ig Nobel Prize
The Ig Nobel Prize is a satiric prize awarded annually since 1991 to celebrate ten unusual or trivial achievements in scientific research.
In the Beginning There Was Light
In The Beginning There Was Light is a documentary film by Austrian director P. A. Straubinger on the subject of inedia.
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Indian Rationalist Association
The Indian Rationalist Association is a voluntary organisation in India whose 100,000 members Bedi, Rahul.
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Investigative journalism
Investigative journalism is a form of journalism in which reporters deeply investigate a single topic of interest, such as serious crimes, racial injustice, political corruption, or corporate wrongdoing.
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Jainism
Jainism, also known as Jain Dharma, is an Indian religion.
Jasmuheen
Jasmuheen (born Ellen Greve; 1957) is a proponent of "pranic nourishment" or breatharianism, the practice of living without food or fluid of any sort and regarded by the scientific community as a lethal pseudoscience.
Junk food
"Junk food" is a term used to describe food that is high in calories from macronutrients such as sugar and/or fat, and possibly sodium, making it hyperpalatable, but with insufficient dietary fiber, protein, or micronutrients such as vitamins and minerals.
Kidney dialysis
Kidney dialysis (from Greek,, 'dissolution'; from,, 'through', and,, 'loosening or splitting') is the process of removing excess water, solutes, and toxins from the blood in people whose kidneys can no longer perform these functions naturally.
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Kumbhaka
Kumbhaka is the retention of the breath in the yoga practice of pranayama.
List of diets
An individual's diet is the sum of food and drink that one habitually consumes.
Maya peoples
The Maya are an ethnolinguistic group of indigenous peoples of Mesoamerica.
Māṇḍakarṇi
Māṇḍakarṇi (Sanskrit माण्डकर्णि) is a sage mentioned in book III (Aranya Kanda) of the Ramayana.
McDonald's
McDonald's Corporation is an American multinational fast food chain, founded in 1940 as a restaurant operated by Richard and Maurice McDonald, in San Bernardino, California, United States.
Mediumship
Mediumship is the pseudoscientific practice of purportedly mediating communication between familiar spirits or spirits of the dead and living human beings.
Paracelsus
Paracelsus (1493 – 24 September 1541), born Theophrastus von Hohenheim (full name Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim), was a Swiss physician, alchemist, lay theologian, and philosopher of the German Renaissance.
Paramahansa Yogananda
Paramahansa Yogananda (born Mukunda Lal Ghosh; January 5, 1893March 7, 1952) was an Indian-American Hindu monk, yogi and guru who introduced millions to meditation and Kriya Yoga through his organization, Self-Realization Fellowship (SRF) / Yogoda Satsanga Society (YSS) of India – the only one he created to disseminate his teachings.
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Physical object
In common usage and classical mechanics, a physical object or physical body (or simply an object or body) is a collection of matter within a defined contiguous boundary in three-dimensional space.
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Prahlad Jani
Prahlad Jani, also known as Mataji or Chunriwala Mataji (13 August 1929 ― 26 May 2020) was an Indian breatharian monk who claimed to have lived without food and water since 1940.
Prana
In yoga, Ayurveda, and Indian martial arts, prana (प्राण,; the Sanskrit word for breath, "life force", or "vital principle") permeates reality on all levels including inanimate objects.
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Pseudoscience
Pseudoscience consists of statements, beliefs, or practices that claim to be both scientific and factual but are incompatible with the scientific method.
Quarter Pounder
The Quarter Pounder is a hamburger sold by international fast food chain McDonald's, so named for containing a patty with a precooked weight of, or one quarter of a pound.
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Ralph T. H. Griffith
Ralph Thomas Hotchkin Griffith (1826–1906) was an English Indologist, a member of the Indian education service and among the first Europeans to translate the Vedas into English.
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Ram Bahadur Bomjon
Ram Bahadur Bomjon (born, sometimes spelled Bomjan, Banjan, or Bamjan), previously known as Palden Dorje (his monastic name) is an ascetic from Ratanapuri, Bara district, Nepal who gained widespread attention and media popularity because of perceived semblances to Gautama Buddha, leading to claims that he is a reincarnation of Gautama Buddha.
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Rama
Rama is a major deity in Hinduism.
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Ramayana
The Ramayana (translit-std), also known as Valmiki Ramayana, as traditionally attributed to Valmiki, is a smriti text (also described as a Sanskrit epic) from ancient India, one of the two important epics of Hinduism known as the Itihasas, the other being the Mahabharata.
Rosicrucianism
Rosicrucianism is a spiritual and cultural movement that arose in early modern Europe in the early 17th century after the publication of several texts announcing to the world a new esoteric order.
Sadhu
Sadhu (साधु, IAST: (male), sādhvī or sādhvīne (female)), also spelled saddhu, is a religious ascetic, mendicant or any holy person in Hinduism and Jainism who has renounced the worldly life.
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Sanal Edamaruku
Sanal Edamaruku (born 26 May 1955) is an Indian author and rationalist.
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Santa Cruz, California
Santa Cruz (Spanish for "Holy Cross") is the largest city and the county seat of Santa Cruz County, in Northern California.
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Scientific skepticism
Scientific skepticism or rational skepticism (also spelled scepticism), sometimes referred to as skeptical inquiry, is a position in which one questions the veracity of claims lacking empirical evidence.
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Slurpee
Slurpee is the brand name for carbonated slushies sold by 7-Eleven and its subsidiaries A-Plus, Speedway, & Stripes Convenience Stores.
Starvation
Starvation is a severe deficiency in caloric energy intake, below the level needed to maintain an organism's life.
Stress (biology)
Stress, whether physiological, biological or psychological, is an organism's response to a stressor such as an environmental condition.
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Subtle body
A subtle body is a "quasi material" aspect of the human body, being neither solely physical nor solely spiritual, according to various esoteric, occult, and mystical teachings.
Sungazing
Sungazing is the unsafe practice of looking directly at the Sun.
Sunlight
Sunlight is a portion of the electromagnetic radiation given off by the Sun, in particular infrared, visible, and ultraviolet light.
Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center
Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center (המרכז הרפואי תל אביב ע"ש סוראסקי), commonly referred to as Ichilov Hospital (בית החולים איכילוב) is the largest teaching hospital and general hospital serving Tel Aviv, Israel and its metropolitan area and is the second-largest hospital complex in the country.
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That's Incredible!
That's Incredible! is an American reality television show that aired on the ABC television network from 1980 to 1984.
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The Hindu
The Hindu is an Indian English-language daily newspaper owned by The Hindu Group, headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
The Sunday Times
The Sunday Times is a British Sunday newspaper whose circulation makes it the largest in Britain's quality press market category.
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The Times of India
The Times of India, also known by its abbreviation TOI, is an Indian English-language daily newspaper and digital news media owned and managed by The Times Group.
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Therese Neumann
Therese Neumann (9 April 1898 – 18 September 1962) was a German Catholic mystic and stigmatic.
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Twinkie
A Twinkie is an American snack cake, described as "golden sponge cake with a creamy filling".
University of Massachusetts Press
The University of Massachusetts Press is a university press that is part of the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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Urine
Urine is a liquid by-product of metabolism in humans and in many other animals.
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Wire transfer
Wire transfer, bank transfer, or credit transfer, is a method of electronic funds transfer from one person or entity to another.
Yahoo! News
Yahoo! News is a news website that originated as an internet-based news aggregator by Yahoo!.
Yogi
A yogi is a practitioner of Yoga, including a sannyasin or practitioner of meditation in Indian religions.
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60 Minutes (Australian TV program)
60 Minutes is an Australian version of the United States television newsmagazine show of the same title, airing on the Nine Network since 1979 on Sunday nights.
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7-Eleven
7-Eleven, Inc. is an American convenience store chain, headquartered in Irving, Texas.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inedia
Also known as Breathairian, Breathairianism, Breatharian, Breatharian Diet, Breatharianism, Breatharians, Breathetairian, Breathetairianism, Breathetarian, Breathetarianism, HRM Phenomenon, Hira ratan manek, Living without eating, Pranic nourishment, Wiley Brooks.
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