Summer turned to fall, and fall to winter, but A.B. continued vigorous. During the fourth and fifth months, the fellows thought it prudent to supplement his daily vitamin with potassium, but that was all. They could find no reason to halt the fast, and A.B. was so determined to reach his target of 180 pounds that he probably would not have heard of it anyway. He celebrated a year without food with a glass of water. Seventeen days later, 276 pounds the lesser, he reached his mark. He ate, but not from hunger.
A.B. did not recidivate. Over the next five years, he added just sixteen pounds to his 180. His case was reported in the Postgraduate Medical Journal in 1973, and The Guinness Book of Records cited him for “Longest Fast,” although Guinness later removed the honor for fear of inspiring unsupervised imitators. “Heaviest Weight Dangled from a Swallowed Sword” remains.
http://www.colorado.edu/eeb/courses/buchwald/1040/hrap_files/Starving.pdf
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