Legend in the history of weight loss
Losing weight is an eternal topic. Men, women and children want to have a healthy and slim figure. We all have a common sense that losing weight is just "keep your mouth shut and keep your legs open", and losing weight on an empty stomach is very unhealthy. People can only insist on not eating for three days and not drinking water for seven days at most, but there is a legend of losing weight in history. They completely fasted for 382 days and successfully lost 250 kilograms of meat through fasting, which made them enter the Guinness World Record. That's Angus Barbieri.
Angus Barbieri is from Scotland. At the age of 27, he weighed as much as 4 12 Jin, far exceeding the normal weight, which not only affected his health, but also seriously affected his normal life. He is determined to find a way to change this situation. Soon after, he met Dr. William Stewart and told him the idea of fasting and losing weight. Dr Stewart didn't want to do this, but at Angus' insistence, they started the project.
Dr. Stewart provided medical support and testing for Angus and recorded Angus' weight loss process. Angus's "fasting" doesn't mean he really doesn't eat anything. He still eats necessary water and vitamins, and is allowed to drink tea, coffee and other non-calorie drinks. The doctor will regularly check his physical condition, including blood samples and urine samples. In order to support Angus's weight loss career, his small food store was temporarily closed.
After a while, Angus really lost some weight. But for the sake of health, for more than 40 days, the doctor advised Angus to stop for a while before continuing. Because of past experience, when you completely fast for 40 days, you will almost reach the limit of your body. Even under the long-term detection of medical staff, it is easy to fall into the risk of sudden death. The doctor wants him to fast for a short time, not for a long time.
However, Angus rejected this proposal and asked to continue and strengthen it. Because according to him, after weeks of fasting, he has completely lost the feeling of hunger. In Angus's view, he can continue to insist and set himself a goal-to reduce it to 164 kg.
This is not a small number and needs to be gradually reduced. It was a long process for Angus. After four months, his blood sugar gradually decreased and remained at a relatively low level, but magically, this did not affect his normal life. His urine test was also conducted the next day. After fasting 100 days, the contents of cation and salt-free phosphate in his urine gradually increased, and doctors had various speculations but failed to confirm them.
After 382 days of persistence, Angus finally achieved the amazing feat of reducing from 4 12 kg to 162 kg, and the media reported that he won the Guinness World Record. Countless people are moved by his deeds, and many people who are troubled by obesity want to emulate him.
From 65438 to 0973, his deeds were published by the doctors who supervised him, including detailed weight loss and laboratory records, and published in newspapers and periodicals. Moreover, the follow-up report found that after five years, his weight only increased by about 14 kg, so there seems to be no risk of rebound. In fact, this "hunger therapy" has long been popular, and countless people want to copy his legend, but they have not succeeded.
Dangerous hunger therapy
Although a large group of people seemed to see hope after reading Angus's story in the media at that time, hunger therapy was actually very dangerous and could not be tried easily. This has happened in the United States. Linda Hashad, a female doctor in the United States, is a great advocate of fasting therapy. She believes that all diseases can be cured by fasting, and based on this, she published a book devoted to fasting therapy.
She also set up a nursing home to promote her own therapy and save lives. This sanatorium is called "Wilderness Heights" and has 100 beds to accommodate all kinds of patients, especially terminally ill patients. Linda claims that her therapy can treat terminal diseases such as cancer, but in fact, her treatment method is particularly simple and rude, and only a certain amount of vegetable soup is provided to patients every day. She tried her best to convince the patient that it was useful, so she waited, only to starve the patient to death.
It is reported that in 19 12, Linda murdered an Australian woman, Claire Will Hemmes. Claire weighed only 50 Jin when she died, and she was undoubtedly starved to death. Linda was finally found guilty, but only two years later, she was released and began to flee.
It didn't end there. 1920, she returned to her old job and opened a nursing home to promote her therapy, which killed more than 40 people. 1938, Linda herself suffers from a disease, but she insists on her own therapy and refuses to go to the hospital for treatment. Finally, she died the same way as the people she killed-starved to death. Before Angus, some people believed in the function of hunger therapy. After Angus, more people wanted to copy this legend.
An unrepeatable legend
When recording Angus' incident, the doctor also recorded the shortcomings and dangers of this therapy. A young and previously healthy woman failed to recover naturally after a 2 10 day hunger strike. After a week of normal diet, she died of arrhythmia, which shows that Angus's success is accidental and unrepeatable.
Some people do it for themselves, while others do it more for fame and fortune. In order to win the world record title, a British man claimed that he had ended his 385-day hunger strike on 1973, but it was not recognized. First of all, there was no medical supervision over his hunger strike, during which he got food; Second, the Guinness Book of Records was unwilling to record for public health, and soon announced that it would no longer accept fasting-related records.
David, an American magician, attracted people's attention with a "hunger strike show" and publicly completed a 44-day hunger strike performance in a transparent glass box, but he was finally questioned for being suspected of cheating. Not only abroad, but also some people in China believe this kind of nonsense. Chen Jianmin, an old man in China, followed David's example and shut himself in a glass room for 49 days to test his "hunger strike theory of Chinese medicine", which is more like a kind of hype.
Modern society has entered 2 1 century, and the ideological realm of most people has improved. Although we no longer believe that "hunger therapy" can cure all diseases, there are still many people who choose not to eat to lose weight. We must use proper methods to lose weight, even if we use this method, we must be under the supervision of doctors.