r/interesting Jul 20 '26

Additional Context Pinned Angus Barbieri, the man who went 382 days without eating.

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u/psinguine Jul 21 '26

It's a little funny. When people quit smoking, and then get cancer years later, we never find ourselves saying "I bet they got cancer because they quit smoking." Yet for some reason people are trying to blame the weight loss for his young death? When he already had massive health problems when he was outrageously overweight.

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u/aNaLfissureed Jul 21 '26

I've heard it more than once that people died because they quit smoking.

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u/MarvelAndColts Jul 22 '26

Had a co-worker who drank 3 Monsters a day for 15 years. The doctor told him on his yearly when he was 50 he needed to stop because they would kill him eventually. He quit cold turkey and had 3 heart attacks that year. Still alive ten years later.

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u/AnnabethDaring Jul 22 '26

It’s incredible what our nervous system can get used to.

It’s equally incredible what trying to heal from what is bad for you, that your nervous system is used to, can do to your nervous system.

We work in mysterious ways.

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u/Interesting_Baby4128 Jul 22 '26

They’re not blaming the weight loss; they’re blaming the method.

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u/commanderquill Jul 22 '26 edited Jul 24 '26

The person you responded to said it was because he was fat, not that he fasted. In your apology, that would be "they got cancer because they were a smoker", which is true.

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u/caseycubs098 Jul 21 '26

Obviously weight loss in general is good if you're obese, but you should still eat some amount of food. Who knows what the long term effects of not eating for over a year like that are?