Angus Barbieri, the Scotsman who did not eat for a year and lost 126 kilos

People's obsession with diets has been around for a long time.

In 1966,

achieved a crazy milestone in history.

The man

 382 days without eating solids in order to treat his obesity.

There is little documentation of Angus's fasting: a report published in the

in 1973 describes the experience his doctors went through.

Barbieri had entered the University Department of Medicine

,

, seeking help.

The man was very obese, weighing 207 kilos.

The doctors put him on a short fast, though they didn't expect him to keep it up.

This is how the days without food turned into weeks, months and even a year

In the 1971 edition of the

, Barbieri's days without eating was recognized as the longest fast on record.

A period newspaper from Scotland references Angus's story.

Fasting changed his life

Angus Barbieri was born in 1939 in a small town in Scotland called Tayport.

Angus, as he revealed in later interviews, was a child who suffered from obesity from a young age.

He loved to eat and hated to play sports or walk.

Due to his bad habits, he continued to gain weight until he reached a point where so many kilos did not allow him to carry out a normal life, since he needed help to carry out daily tasks.

At 27, Angus said enough was enough and went to Dundee Royal Infirmary for help.

At that time Barbieri's weight was around 207 kilos.

Immediately, the doctors proposed a solution: do a short fast to start losing weight and then a strict diet.

Angus agreed on everything except one thing, he felt that he was a slave to food and

he reached his desired weight.

Doctors monitored Angus' fasting once a week.

At that time it was very common to resort to this type of weight loss strategy, due to its efficacy and safety.

Many of the studies that fasting fans refer to today come from these decades.

The doctors, due to Barbieri's request, fulfilled his request, but on one condition: he had to take vitamins and they would monitor him every week to see his evolution.

This is how “the longest fast in history” began.

After the test time, the doctors reflected in their study that Barbieri was not having health, so they decided to prolong the fast in a supervised manner.

For the next

Angus devoted himself entirely to the task at hand.

He quit his job and worked closely with the doctors, who monitored his condition.

He finally fulfilled his great goal.

To the Guinness of Records

According to the

, Angus consumed only water, tea, and coffee, along with prescribed vitamins during the fast.

"Occasionally I would have a little milk or sugar in my tea," Barbieri said.

During the fast, he reportedly stayed in hospitals for two to three days at a time and then returned home.

Angus Barbieri came to weigh 82 kilos.

After her grueling year ended,

. She didn't plan on going back to work at the fish and chip house for fear of rebound effect.

The man

.

The first report of this story was given by the

, when it published an article about the unrealistic story of Angus Barbieri, a man from Scotland who was having a boiled egg, some bread and butter and coffee for breakfast.

But it wasn't just another meal, it was his first intake after a year of pure fasting.

In the 1971 edition of the

, Barbieri's 382 days without eating was recognized as the longest fast on record.

According to Guinness officials,

on the part of people.

After losing weight, Angus Barbieri's life changed completely, he moved to Warwick, met his wife, got married, started a family and had two children.

He lived a full life until September 1990 when he died of natural causes.

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