This recent "story" is a recycled "deja vu" hoax reminiscent of the "Breatharian" Cult claims found in books once sold both in stores specializing in the occult, as well as in the book section of "Natural/Organic/Health Food stores back in the 1960's.
These books claimed the following to be fact:
There was here today on Earth a remnant group of people known as "Breatharians", whose origins date back to primordial pre-Vedic times -- human beings much the same as we originally existed back in Earth's "Golden Age".
At that time, all of mankind was blond haired, blue eyed, golden skinned, and lived on the peaks of the highest mountain elevations in places like the Himalayas. There, they lived a purely spiritual "G-d like" existence with life spans lasting hundreds and thousands of years, requiring for their sustenance only to breathe the air and absorb cosmic rays from the Universe.
Eventually, (as each mythic "Golden Age" story goes), mankind began to devolve. Each spiritual devolvement was followed by a corresponding physical devolution. Skin, eyes, and hair darkened and changed colors, and soon mankind began to feel hunger and thirst like other creatures.
Finally, man fully descended from his godly "Mt. Olympus" status down to the lower levels of Earth, where he is found today in our present "fallen" condition.
During the late 1960's a group stepped forward claiming to all be Breatharians, and offered to prove it.
They announced a meeting in a major city and invited journalists to observe them for an entire weekend.
Things went well during all the lectures and "recruitment" pitches, until one afternoon when journalists covering the story caught several of them "red handed" who had sneaked out of their hotel rooms, walked to a convenience store down the street, and were drinking chocolate milk and eating candy bars.
"Disinformation" -- Deliberately misleading "news" or documentation constantly released by governments through media channels for purposes of diverting the public's attention, and/or obfuscating actual ongoing political/diplomatic/economic/military developments.
There's an age old adage which everyone should recall when reading stories like this one --
"If it sounds too good to be true, it is too good to be true!"