HEALTH
survived more than 70 years without a drink or eat or go to the bathroom
Indian scientists are stunned by the living conditions of Prahlad Jani, 83, an ascetic Hindu AFP
Indian scientists expressed shock after the analysis carried out during two weeks in a 83 year old Hindu ascetic who claims to have spent more than 70 years without eating or drinking water.
The long-bearded yogi, Prahlad Jani, resisted without eating or drinking, but mostly not urinate or defecate during the observation period ended on Thursday, according to scientists.
"We understand how to survive without urinating or defecating. This phenomenon is a mystery," he told reporters Sudhir Shah, a neurologist from the team of 30 doctors who observed the yogi in a hospital in Ahmedabad (west). Prahlad Jani
was watched by cameras 24 hours during this experiment launched by the Research and Development Agency of the Ministry of Defence (DRDO).
Then the yogi returned to his hometown near Ambaji in Gujarat (north) where he resumed his meditative activities. The octogenarian says that God blessed him when he was 8 years and allowed him to live without food.
During the two weeks of the experiment, "the only Jani contact with liquid was when he was gargling or washing, "he said in a statement Dr. G. Ilavazahagan, director of the National Defense Institute specialized in physiology. This institute is part of the DRDO which last year had devised grenades full of red pepper to stun protesters.
"If Jani does not draw their energy from food and water, do so from other sources that surround it, and the sun is one of them," said Dr. Sudhir Shah. "In both medical professionals, we can not exclude the hypothesis as an energy source other than the calories, "he said.
[Yogi underwent an MRI scanner. His brain and heart activity were measured with electrodes and perform blood tests.]
The detailed results will be published in the coming months and the DRDO hopes to take advantage of to increase the resistance of the military or helping victims of natural disasters.
Date: 10/05/2010 9:00 Montevideo, Uruguay
1 - Look in the dictionary for words that do not understand. Otherwise, you will not be able to read the text well.
2 - What is the most important information of the text? What part is concentrated?
3 - What are minor or secondary data? What are parts of the text?
4 - Extract and copy two examples of direct reported speech. Notes declarative verbs. Convert them to indirect reported speech.
5 - In the paragraph marked with square brackets searches and extracts from there: three nouns, adjectives, article, all pronouns (be ranked), all the verbs and prepositions.
6 - Memorize the prepositions: a, at, under, with, against, from, in, between, to, to, to, for, pro, as without, over, behind. I'm going to ask in class until all know. Anyone who does not consider they are going to ask again and again until you say them.
