My mom is a buddhist who is a vegeterian as she believe in
taking no life
this pisses me and my dad off as both of us are meat eaters who
hate veg
as i am pissed, my argument is that veg are also alive and there
are plenty of microbes living in the water she drink everyday.
so i propose this diet for her
India studies yogic power for life without food
AHMEDABAD, India (AFP) - – A team of military doctors backed by
India's national defence research centre is studying an 83-year-old
holy man who claims to have spent seven decades surviving without
food or water.
The long-haired and bearded yogi, Prahlad Jani, has been sealed
in a hospital in the western city of Ahmedabad where he is under
24-hour observation by 30 doctors and will be subjected to a series
of medical tests.
"The observation from this study may throw light on human
survival without food and water," doctor G. Ilavazahagan, director
of India's Defence Institute of Physiology and Allied Sciences
(DIPAS), told AFP.
The DIPAS is part of the Defence Research and Development
Organisation, India's state defence and military research institute
also behind a grenade packed with chilli powder that recently hit
headlines.
"This may help in working out strategies for survival during
natural calamities, extreme stressful conditions and
extra-terrestrial explorations like future missions to the Moon and
Mars by the human race," Ilavazahagan said.
The tests on Jani include magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
scans, measuring brain and heart activity with electrodes and other
neuro-physiological studies, in addition to blood tests.
The experiment started on April 22 and will take 15-20 days.
Since the beginning, Jani has neither eaten nor drunk and has not
been to the toilet, Ilavazahagan said.
"The exercise of taking this yogi under the medical scanner is
to understand what energy supports his existence," he added,
explaining that soldiers could benefit from his apparent ability to
survive.
"Jani says he meditates to get energy. Our soldiers will not be
able to meditate, but we would still like to find out more about
the man and his body," he said.
Neurologist Sudhir Shah, who studied Jani in 2003 and is part of
the new experiment, said that the extremely skinny but apparently
active man faced round-the-clock observation.
"Two stationary 24-hour video cameras have been set up in his
room, while a mobile video camera follows him whenever he needs to
step outside," he said.
Jani, who dresses in red and wears a nose ring, grew up in
Charod village in the Mehsana district in Gujarat and claims to
have been blessed by a goddess aged eight, which has enabled him to
survive without sustenance.
Shah said that Jani told him the key to his survival was a
mystical and unexplained process by which he receives drops of
water through a hole in his palate.
Analysis of data, to determine his secret or expose his
fraudulence, will take at least two months, the doctors said.
Fasting is a part of Indian culture, made famous by independence
leader Mahatma Gandhi, who brought himself to the brink of death on
several occasions by refusing food and water to protest against
colonial rule.
A monk from India's minority Jain religion -- devout followers
of which undertake frequent fasts, sometimes to death -- claims to
have deprived himself of food for one year, which is believed to be
a record
"If you're busy with something you don't feel hunger, thirst, or
the heat and cold," said Sri Sahaj Muni Maharaj, who took daily
glasses of warm water during his fast which ended on May 1998.
"I'm busy contemplating the infinite," he told India's Outlook
magazine one month before the end of his experiment.
sauce -
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Leave the meat and vegetables at room temperature for 12
hours, you will notice meat will stink and decompose but vegetables
will not. Thus, vegetables are better for health. Eating meat is
like eating carcasses (corpses). Just to point out there is nothing
wrong for your mum to be vegetarian.
Animals have feelings like human beings, they also have organs
and senses (eyes, nose, mouth e.t.c.) like human beings while
bacteria and germs do not have.
Eat less meat.
