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Muluwork Ambaw, a 26-year-old woman from Ethiopia, claims to have gone the last 16 years of her life without eating or drinking anything.
She shunned food forever one day when she was only 10 years old, after her appetite vanished out of the blue (she also hasn’t had to use that toilet during that time).
She was examined by several doctors and doctors at a hospital in Addis Ababa did confirm that there was no evidence of any food in her intestines at the time of the examination.
However, although she is not eating or drinking, she is otherwise a healthy, young woman. Good looking too.
This is not the only phenomenon, though - 75-year-old woman from India, claims that she hasn’t consumed a grain of rice, or any other solid food in the last 60 years. Apart from one banana a week – eaten only occasionally – she survives on water and tea alone.
She raised a total of five children, and also worked in the fields alongside her husband.
There are more examples (mostly living in India) of people surviving years without food or drink, or both. Those cases are definitely unique, and unexplainable, in the medical world.
Claims like this have been around for a very long time and well, scroll down and read the stories, mostly just scams or religious, mystic type claims to make a buck.
What's the attraction of these stories anyway? Sure, most people eat more than they need in developed countries. Going in the opposite direction isn't a good move either.
Maybe she's an epiphyte in disguise. Absorbed everything she needed to maintain metabolism from the surrounding air. One problem...epiphytes aren't parasites. They don't extract anything from the tree they attach themselves to. Somehow I suspect people who claim to never eat or drink are parasites, at least on the easily fooled and gullible.
I don’t believe this story. Every once in a while we hear of these sketchy stories from third world countries that just don’t make any common sense at all. From a medical/scientific standpoint it certainly can’t be true.
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