Does there look to be any 'conflict of interest' here?
People against "starving", perhaps?
I doubt the story, film, whatever will do much to move the value of Water Fasting forward. Much as poor quality herbs will shut the door on herbs.
C
(My father was less than 50 pounds when he died. But it wasn't the 'starving' that finished him. He would have survived all that, and been quite fine, was even very sharp at the end--but could not -by then- reverse the cancer, or the underlying cause of it.