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Ryan Fahey

Leader of bizarre 'diet cult' that lives without food and water caught eating McDonald’s

The leader of a cult that preached humans can exist without food or water was rumbled by followers who found him eating a McDonald's dinner.

Wiley Brooks, the founder of a diet cult called "Breatharianism", preached a daily intake of nothing but sun and dust.

It was sold as a way of keeping trim while expanding spiritual consciousness and gained a large following in the 1980s - even in Hollywood, screenshot-media reports.

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