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===Hira Ratan Manek=== Hira Ratan Manek (1937β2022)<ref>{{Cite news |title=Hira ratan manek: Hira Ratan Manek Who Lived on Water and Sunlight No More | Ahmedabad News |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/hira-ratan-manek-who-lived-on-water-and-sunlight-no-more/articleshow/90328855.cms |website=[[The Times of India]] |date=20 March 2022 |access-date=22 April 2024 |archive-date=28 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231128034821/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/hira-ratan-manek-who-lived-on-water-and-sunlight-no-more/articleshow/90328855.cms |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/kozhikode/article65219937.ece |title=The man who consumed the sun is no more |work=[[The Hindu]] |date=13 March 2022 |access-date=8 January 2023}}</ref> claimed that since 18 June 1995, he lived on water and occasionally tea, coffee, and [[buttermilk]]. Manek stated that [[sungazing]] was the key to his health,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Solar Healing Center |url=http://solarhealing.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305070142/http://solarhealing.com/ |archive-date=5 March 2016 |access-date=6 February 2012}}</ref> citing [[yogi]]s, ancient [[Ancient Egypt|Egyptians]], [[Aztec]]s, [[Maya peoples|Mayas]], and [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|Native Americans]] as practitioners of the art.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Timoshik |first=Alexander |date=28 August 2006 |title=Man lives for 11 years eating only sunlight |url=http://english.pravda.ru/science/mysteries/28-08-2006/84110-sunlight-0/ |access-date=24 February 2015 |archive-date=24 February 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150224171023/http://english.pravda.ru/science/mysteries/28-08-2006/84110-sunlight-0/ |url-status=live }}</ref> While he and his proponents stated that medical experts confirmed his ability to draw sustenance by gazing at the Sun,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Santhosh |first=K. |date=2005-12-10 |title=Sharing their love for food, water, sunlight |work=[[The Hindu]] |url=http://www.thehindu.com/2005/12/10/stories/2005121011610400.htm |url-status=dead |access-date=24 February 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150903213334/http://www.thehindu.com/2005/12/10/stories/2005121011610400.htm |archive-date=3 September 2015}}</ref> a method which came to be known as "HRM phenomenon" (by his initials), he was caught on camera eating a big meal in a San Francisco restaurant in the 2011 documentary ''Eat the Sun''.<ref>{{Cite web |date=11 May 2011 |title=Eat the Sun |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1424769/ |access-date=24 February 2015 |website=IMDb |archive-date=17 January 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150117052056/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1424769/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Storr |first=Will |date=6 May 2013 |title=The man who lives without food |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/active/10032594/The-man-who-lives-without-food.html |url-status=dead |access-date=24 February 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130508202818/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/active/10032594/The-man-who-lives-without-food.html |archive-date=8 May 2013}}</ref>
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