âAlternative medicine,â so-called âcomplementary and alternative medicineâ (CAM), or, as itâs become fashionable to call it, âintegrative medicineâ is a set of medical practices that are far more based on belief than science.
Although most crocodiles eat about 50 meals a year, they can survive a whole year, and sometimes even two or three years, without eating anything.
How long can we survive without food or water? In the 1940s, in one of the world's great acts of civil disobedience, Mahatma Gandhi went 21 days without food, surviving only on occasional sips of water. Gandhi was in his mid-70s at the time and thin as a reed.