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The ascetic Prahlad Jani
from India has reportedly not eaten for more than 70 years.
Impossible, say experts.
A person can go without food for a maximum of three months.
"We regularly need nutrients to stay healthy," says nutritionist Yurdagül Zopf from Erlangen University Hospital.
However, our natural instinct for the right diet has increasingly fled in the past few decades: "Abundance, fast food and ready meals have taken our bearings when it comes to healthy eating."
The run to find the healthiest diet or to follow the most effective diet also destroys our feeling for what the body really needs, explains the expert in clinical and experimental nutritional medicine and advises: "Low carb, low fat - the more extreme you are Choosing your diet, the greater the risk of doing something wrong. "
A balanced mixed diet, as suggested by two large observational studies in recent years, works best.
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