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Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Human biology & related topics > General
Icky, sticky, slimy and smelly -- the human body is amazing, but
it's pretty nasty sometimes, too! Find the real answers to your
questions about the gross and disgusting things on, in and coming
out of your body: Can your eyeball fall out? Why are boogers green?
What gives you morning breath? Do your ears ever stop growing? What
is that icky stuff inside a zit? What is "toe cheese" made of? Find
out everything you wanted to know (and some things you really
didn't want to know) about the yucky but incredible human body.
'My concern is not to persuade people that they should stop eating.
My hope is that they will begin to change their way of thinking,
including the way they think about eating and drinking' - Michael
Werner. In 1923, Therese Neumann, a nun in Southern Germany,
stopped eating and drinking. Apart from the wafer given at Mass,
she did not eat again, despite living for a further 35 years. Other
similar cases have been reported over the years - often holy men
from the East - and have taken on something of a mythical status.
However, they remain obscure enough to be brushed aside by modern
scientists. Michael Werner presents a new type of challenge to
sceptics. A fit family man in his 50s, he has a doctorate in
Chemistry and is the managing director of a research institute in
Switzerland. In this remarkable account he describes how he stopped
eating in 2001 and has survived perfectly well without food ever
since. In fact, he claims never to have felt better! Unlike the
people who have achieved this feat in the past, he is an ordinary
man who lives a full and active life. Michael Werner has an open
challenge to all scientists: 'Test me using all the scientific
monitoring and data you wish!' In fact, he describes one such test
here in which he was kept without food in a strictly monitored
environment for ten days. Werner also describes in detail how and
why he came to give up food, and what his life is like without it.
This book features other reports from those who have attempted to
follow this way of life, as well as supplementary material on
possible scientific explanations of how one could 'live on light'.
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