Inedia
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This topic is a pseudoscience, and is not accepted by the scientific community as a valid discipline.
Although it may use scientific terminology, it does not use scientific methodology.
Remember: just because it sounds right doesn't mean it's actually right.
Inedia (Latin for fasting) is the ability to live without food, sustaining one's body only on air, sunlight, or "insert mysterious energy force here".
[edit] Inedia vs. science
Many people claim this ability, and there are also some "historical" accounts of the ability, such as Roman Catholic Saints. Very few claims have ever been shown to hold up against scientific inquiry; if we assume that starving someone for the sake of a scientific experiment is even ethical. In the best case scenario, proponents of inedia are lying or cheating by eating food and not telling. This may be intentional deceit or the case of a true believer deceiving themselves. In the worst case scenario, practitioners die from malnutrition or dehydration very quickly.
This is simply a case where science actually agrees with common sense; if you don't eat, you'll starve to death.
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