Apizza deliveryman who identifies himself as a
breatharian claims mediation has helped him to collect all the nutrients he needs from the air and can survive on just 100 calories a week.
In line with the OED, nutarian [1909] 'a vegetarian whose diet is based on nut products',
breatharian [1979] 'a person who consumes no nutrients other than those absorbed from the air', and fruitarian [1893] 'one who lives on fruit' are obtained from the "suffix" -arian, like vegetarian.
Sian says the BDA's received numerous enquiries about different diets this year, ranging from the weird to the dangerous - such as the '
Breatharian Diet', which asks people to live on fresh air and sunlight alone!
This year she made claims that she had become a '
breatharian' - someone who can live off just 'light and air' - and that she never eats or drinks.
Some of my friends are: a) vegetarian, b) gluten-free, c) lactose intolerant, and d)
breatharian.
This heretical tradition is continued by Perilla, the charismatic,
breatharian, Tarot-reading leader of the castle.
Breatharian: someone who believes that meditation can bring a level of consciousness where one can exist on air
Jasmuheen, founder of the
Breatharian movement and a website - the Cosmic Internet Academy (CIA), arouses strong feelings in people.
The "
Breatharian" agreed to be filmed on a seven-day fast by a TV crew but after four days her speech slowed, her pupils dilated, she lost a stone in weight and appeared listless and gaunt.
She calls herself a
Breatharian who follows the Living on Light philosophy.