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Blaine helps healers. David Blaine is putting his 44-days of inactivity in a glass box to some good by helping doctors improve their understanding of how to deal with hunger strikers. Researchers in the UK said Mr. Blaine helped them gain new insights into what happens to the body during starvation and subsequent recovery.
Jeremy Powell-Tuck, professor of clinical nutrition at Queen Mary’s School of Medicine in London, told a conference today of the biological consequences of Blaine’s fast.
Powell-Tuck and his team treated Blaine after he left the Perspex box suffering from malnutrition and vitamin deficiencies.
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The research revealed that self-imposed hunger strikers are unlikely to perish within the first 45 days of their protest if they are healthy individuals at the start. The findings form part of Powell-Tuck’s on-going research into disease-related malnutrition and intestinal failure.
Not to be cynical, but let?s pretend that Mr. Blaine only pretended to go without food or vitamins for 44 days. Pretend that the magician ? who knows magic stuff ? used his magic knowledge to feign the 44 days of starvation. Pretend further that Mr. Blaine did not bother to tell the good doctors that he was just doing a stunt. We sure hope the doctors? work is not compromised by any misunderstanding of the true nature of the stunt.
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