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The Incredible Story of Angus Barbieri's Year-Long Fast
TLDR Angus Barbieri went on a 382-day fast, surviving only on coffee, tea, sparkling water, and vitamins, and losing weight to reach his ideal weight of 180 pounds. His doctors documented his fast, providing scientific evidence of his ability to survive without eating, but caution that extended fasting can be extremely dangerous and potentially deadly.
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Angus Barbieri went on a 382-day fast, consuming only coffee, tea, sparkling water, and vitamins, in order to lose weight.
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Angus Barbieri went about his normal life while not eating for over a year, with tests confirming that he was indeed not eating and surviving on his body fat and vitamin supplements.
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Angus Barbieri's doctors documented his year-long fast and published an article about it in a medical journal in 1973, providing scientific evidence of his ability to survive without eating.
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Angus Barbieri went between 40 and 50 days without pooping during his year-long fast, but did occasionally have bowel movements consisting of dead cells, and at the end of the fast, he reached his ideal weight of 180 pounds.
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Angus Barbieri broke his year-long fast by eating a breakfast of boiled egg, bread with butter, and black coffee, and his doctors monitored his blood glucose levels, which remained low despite his ability to walk around with a blood glucose level of 30, and he also developed hypercalcemia due to the rapid weight loss.
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Angus Barbieri's record of not eating for 382 days was surpassed by Dennis Gaylor Goodwin, who went without food for 385 days during a hunger strike, before being force fed through a tube, and fasting for extended periods of time can be extremely dangerous and potentially deadly.
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Refeeding after an extended fast can be extremely dangerous and potentially deadly, as people have died from an overdose of nutrients when they started eating again, making fasts over 40 days very dangerous.
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