David Blaine Gives Mia Farrow Hunger Strike Tips

[JI7]

Source: people

Actress Mia Farrow is on Day Five of her hunger strike to raise awareness of the humanitarian crisis in Darfur. But before she got started, she got a call from a well-wisher with some good advice.

Magician David Blaine – who once went without food for 44 days while suspended above London's River Thames – phoned Farrow with some tips on how to prepare. "He told me to drink 4 liters of water. Do you know how much water that is?"," Farrow wrote on her blog. "He said after 6 days I won't feel hunger."

In a video posted Thursday to her blog, Farrow explains that she's weak after four days of fasting and spending lots of time in her bedroom at her Bridgewater, Conn., home. "Being hungry all the time, which I am, just brings my mind to all the people who are starving," she says.

Last week Farrow told PEOPLE she hopes to stop eating for three weeks to show support for Darfur, where one million people are at risk of starvation after the Sudanese government expelled 13 aid agencies in March. After consulting a doctor, she gained 9 lbs. in preparation for the fast and plans to have her blood tested after two weeks. "If there is organ damage, I will have to stop," she told PEOPLE.

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she wants to bring attention to Darfur with this but it doesn't seem like the media still has much interest in it.

[Mari333]

1. she is living by her convictions

I always admire anyone who does. The media? care about the people of Darfur? think of the ratings...ratings...ratings...thats all they care about. the fucking ratings.

[harmonicon]

6. living by her convictions?

She's a self righteous POS. "Oh, I'm special and more compassionate than others, and I'll go on a controlled hunger strike to prove it - after putting on 9 pounds." What a completely worthless human being.

[Mari333]

10. hey its what she believes in

not that I would do it, nor would you. but she believes in it, so , shes doing it. I respect anyone who does something they believe in for a cause even if I myself wouldnt do it.

[TexasObserver]

12. What a strange and undeserved response!

She's bringing awareness to a very severe problem, and the only thing you can see is your personal disdain for her?

[Zavulon]

2. I know this will be an unpopular opinion, but hunger strikes are

the stupidest form of protest I can imagine, especially when there are other alternatives.

Even when I find the cause worthwhile, as I do here, my attitude towards hunger strikers has always been the same: "You don't want to eat? Fine by me."

If she winds up with organ damage, she might have my respect for standing by her convictions, but she won't have my sympathy. If you knowingly endanger yourself like this and wind up hurt, I have no more sympathy for you than I had for those idiots on that Jackass show.

A sixtysomething on a three-week hunger strike. What an idiot, no matter how well-intentioned.

[Mari333]

4. Mahatma Gandhi......nt

[Zavulon]

8. No change in opinion. (NT)

[TexasObserver]

13. They don't make progressives like they used to ....

Some of the appalling things said here by alleged progressives are beyond belief. There's a lack of commitment to core values. Only the ignorant or the mean spirited would find a hunger strike to raise awareness offensive.

[Political Heretic]

3. I respect what she's doing, whether it has huge impact or not.

[jb5150]

5. David Blaine

will do anything for publicity......

[harmonicon]

7. apparently, so will Mia Farrow

[Baby Snooks]

9. Excuse me?

She doesn't need publicity and she has done nothing the past several years but focus attention on the genocide in Darfur.

Had it not been for her quite a few people might not have known about Darfur and had it not been for her nothing would have been done.

What have you done to make the world a better place?

[wildflower]

11. I wish they didn't have to bring David Blaine into it

She is trying to bring attention to an urgent humanitarian crisis, and I really admire her for it. But I'm worried that many people have written off David Blaine as an attention-seeker and may not pay attention because of that.

[Baby Snooks]

14. Living by our convictions, living as other people do....

It is so easy for us to dismiss the plight of others. Until we "walk in their shoes" and I bet the people slamming Mia Farrow couldn't go 12 hours without something to eat. People in Africa go 12 days without something to eat. Sometimes longer. I am just appalled by what I read occasionally on DU by supposed Democrats who in fact have a Republican attitude towards their fellow man.

www.miafarrow.org

She has done far more for her fellow man than most of the people who have chosen to slam her. I dare them to go without food for even 12 hours and see if they like it. And then dare them to go another 12. And another 12. Which is what most people in Africa do.