Which is why they are a minority. I wonder what they are doing when no one is looking. Trust me they are eating. If not they are drinking Ensure.
@The Exiled, breatharians, those depending on air are more reclusive, and have distanced themselves from the busy cities. They usually retire to the high mountains where the air is pure.
Physical activity is kept to a bare minimum. They are more interested in observing their states of awareness and even limit their mind’s activity and number of breaths per minute.
They disciplined themselves slowly and methodically from grosser levels of food consumption, systematically weaning themselves to a point where food just seems extraneous.
If you ever observe a sloth eating, it takes them longer to consume one green leaf, than it takes for an average guy to eat a full steak dinner.
Their movements are so slow that they evade being prey to predators because of their lack of movement, and they blend into the landscape, much like a tree. And, they are not small. They carry around a body with some heftiness.
Everything in nature either adapts or dies.
I found myself on a trek at 14,000 feet above sea level. It is such a strange feeling. The air at that height seems to fill your intestines, and you are just not hungry. You feel full. Your other senses become heightened. You start to just live in the moment, breath by breath. Even thinking becomes a chore. You just feel maintained.
When, returning to lower altitudes, your hunger does not return immediately. You maintain what you experienced in high altitudes.
When you return to a big city and you see a food court and people gorging, you just shake your head, because a mere banana seems to satisfy you more than enough.
After re-acclimating yourself to our regular world and it’s customs and habits of large food consumption, you just fall into the habits and customs of what is available.
“When in Rome, do as the Romans do.”