Yet the limits on how long people can go without eating are complicated; without water people are unlikely to last a week, but the amount of time starvation takes can vary drastically. Take the story of Angus Barbieri — for 382 days, ending 11 July 1966, the then-27-year-old Scotsman ate nothing.
He had coffee and tea, and took vitamins. He was being monitored by doctors. He was originally only going to go on a short fast, but when it came time to break his fast, he decided to keep going with it.
Read the whole story here: The True Story of a Man Who Survived Without Any Food For 382 Days.
And here's an abstract of a journal article in US National Library of Medicine: Features of a successful therapeutic fast of 382 days' duration.
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| Angus Barbieri before and after his 382 day fast |
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