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Pakistani man eats leaves for 25 years, never fallsĀ ill
The Indian Express ^ | Saturday, April 22, 2017 | PTI

Posted on 04/22/2017 10:08:44 AM PDT by Jyotishi

"Eating wood and leaves has become my habit now," Butt was quoted as saying.

Lahore - A man in Pakistan's Punjab province has been surviving on fresh leaves and wood for the last 25 years and has never fallen ill. Mehmood Butt, 50, who hails from Gujranwala district in Punjab province, started eating on leaves at the age of 25 as he had no work and could not afford a basic meal. "There was too much poverty in my family. Everything was beyond limit and it was very difficult for me to get a meal, so I thought it is better to eat wood rather than begging on a street," Butt said.

"Eating wood and leaves has become my habit now," Butt was quoted as saying by 'The News International'. Years later, as he took up work and could afford meals, he found himself strangely keen on maintaining his unique eating practice, the report said. Butt, who earns Rs 600 a day by transporting things from one place to another on his donkey cart, has never fallen ill and is always looking to consume fresh wood and leaves.

He said wood from Banyan, Tali and Suck Chain trees were his favourites. "He has never visited a doctor or any hospital. We are shocked how can a person not fall ill despite eating wood all these years," his neighbour Ghulam Mohammad said. "He will stop his cart on the roadside anytime and will eat fresh tree branches," Mohammad said. Butt is popular in his area for his eating habits as people see him munching leaves but never taking ill, the report said.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: diet; food; health; medicine; trees; vegan; vegetarian; weird; wood
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To: Jyotishi

Richard Simons has eaten “Wood” for a long time and look where that got him.


21 posted on 04/22/2017 10:45:23 AM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools. Go Trump!)
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To: Jyotishi

So he eats, leaves, and shoots?


22 posted on 04/22/2017 10:48:39 AM PDT by Disambiguator (Keepin' it analog.)
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To: TigersEye

“Bear Grylls”

This Paki must sleep a lot.
Bears eat a lot of roughage in the fall to plug up their butts in order to conserve their precious bodily solids and fluids during their long winter sleep.
(From the “I Didn’t Really Care To Know That/TMI” dept.)


23 posted on 04/22/2017 10:49:04 AM PDT by tumblindice
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To: Jyotishi

A panda walks into a café. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and proceeds to fire it at the other patrons.

“Why?” asks the confused, surviving waiter amidst the carnage, as the panda makes towards the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

“Well, I’m a panda,” he says. “Look it up.”

The waiter turns to the relevant entry in the manual and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

“Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves.”


24 posted on 04/22/2017 10:50:12 AM PDT by stylin19a (Terrorists - "just because you don't see them doesn't mean they aren't there")
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To: tumblindice

In the western Himalayas the bears just eat a Butt.


25 posted on 04/22/2017 10:57:25 AM PDT by TigersEye (Make up my mind, NBC,CBS,CNN,ABC. What are the "facts" today?)
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To: Disambiguator

So he eats, leaves, and shoots?
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Way too many commas.

But, wait, maybe, not. Could, be, I, was, just, missing, your, main, point.


26 posted on 04/22/2017 11:01:04 AM PDT by InterceptPoint (Ted, you finally endorsed. About time.)
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To: InterceptPoint

Maybe it’s “eats, shoots, and leaves.” The comma abuse is intentional.


27 posted on 04/22/2017 11:03:47 AM PDT by Disambiguator (Keepin' it analog.)
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To: Disambiguator

The comma abuse is intentional.
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I know that.

I was just trying and failing to match your very, very (sorry for the redundancy) clever comment.

It was very clever. It would be nice if we saw more of this sort of thing here at good old FR. Freepers need to lighten up once in awhile. Things are actually going pretty good for us right now.


28 posted on 04/22/2017 11:12:36 AM PDT by InterceptPoint (Ted, you finally endorsed. About time.)
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To: Jyotishi
Meanwhile, his little buddy has a one-track mind (food-wise) also:


29 posted on 04/22/2017 11:16:07 AM PDT by Clearly Right (Except when I'm driving, which I tend to do on the left side of the vehicle.)
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To: InterceptPoint

I can’t take credit for it. It’s actually the title of a book on grammar and punctuation (that most internet users could take lessons from, IMHO).


30 posted on 04/22/2017 11:16:41 AM PDT by Disambiguator (Keepin' it analog.)
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To: Jyotishi

After dinner he leaves his favorite restaurant branch, with knots in his stomach then falls in to bed. No one is around to hear it.


31 posted on 04/22/2017 11:27:19 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Flinging poo is not a valid argument)
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To: ameribbean expat

So someone actually eats roots shoots and leaves.
Euwell Gibbons would be envious.


32 posted on 04/22/2017 11:33:10 AM PDT by sparklite2 (I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
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To: Jyotishi
Mrs. Mehmood Butt had no comment.
33 posted on 04/22/2017 12:06:51 PM PDT by Rinnwald
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To: Jyotishi

Yeah? And i know folks who smoke, drink eat greasy fat ladened food and crap food who haven’t been sick ever either-

The problem with anecdotal examples like the above is that this man’s constitution is such that he rarely gets sick no matter what he would eat- BUT he claims it’s the wood and leaves that keeps him healthy-

That is like saying something silly like “I chew bubble gum and have never gotten a corn, therefore bubble gum prevents corns” or “I throw a football twice a day, and have never had liver cancer- therefore throwing footballs prevents liver cancer”


34 posted on 04/22/2017 12:13:15 PM PDT by Bob434
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To: Jyotishi

Guess it is ‘time’ for me to roll out one of my very favorite factoids....

EVERYONE WHO ATE BEANS DURING THE CIVIL WAR DIED.


35 posted on 04/22/2017 12:16:38 PM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98)" "IF someone offers you a breath mint - TAKE IT")
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To: InterceptPoint; Disambiguator; stylin19a

Syntactic ambiguity (also called amphiboly or amphibology) is when a series of words may be interpreted in more than one way due to ambiguity of their arrangement or punctuation. For example:

That that is is that that is not is not is that it it is

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That_that_is_is_that_that_is_not_is_not_is_that_it_it_is

Tougher ones:

James while John had had had had had had had had had had had a better effect on the teacher

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo

(The last one only requires a period at the end. It means “Bison from Buffalo, New York who are intimidated by other bison in their community also happen to intimidate other bison in their community.”)


36 posted on 04/22/2017 12:18:54 PM PDT by unlearner (So much winning !!! It's Trumptastic!)
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To: unlearner; Disambiguator; stylin19a

I’ve discovered that tears rolling from my eyes while laughing and trying and mostly failing to figure out those “had had”s and “Buffalo buffalo”s don’t transform directly to HTML. Too bad. Someone at FR needs to work on that.


37 posted on 04/22/2017 12:32:24 PM PDT by InterceptPoint (Ted, you finally endorsed. About time.)
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To: Jyotishi

But apparently it has put his butt in a Meh mood. 8>)


38 posted on 04/22/2017 12:56:19 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: freedumb2003

“Remember Euell Gibbons?”

Yes — and (IMHO) every survivalist should read his books. There’s a lot of very good (and tasty) food in the wilderness. We cultivate only a tiny fraction of the total number of edible plants (and I’m not talking about wood). I’ve gone on camping trips where I packed no food — just one of Gibbons’ books. Foraging kept me well fed.

(There may be newer and better books on the subject — I stopped looking after finding Gibbons.)


39 posted on 04/22/2017 1:04:17 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: Jyotishi

what about grass?


40 posted on 04/22/2017 1:20:56 PM PDT by Eternal_Bear
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