breatharianism

Tl;dr version: You can’t live without food and water.

Followers of the controversial diet believe that humans can survive on cosmic energy from air. Doctors and dietitians beg to differ.

From the Flavor Aid (not Kool-Aid) at Jonestown to Rev. Sun Myung Moon's fat-shaming sermons, cults have a history of using food as one of their many tools of control. But hey, at least some of them made salad dressing to die for.

According to Wiley Brooks McDonalds is the only food that’s not radioactive.

Naveena Shine, a 65-year-old British transplant to the Pacific Northwest, is in the middle of an experiment to see what happens if she doesn't eat anything for a long, long time. Others have died attempting similar spiritual undertakings, but Naveena...