shinester
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Post by shinester on Dec 31, 2013 0:51:20 GMT 10
A year without food
Back in June of 1965, a Scotsman weighing 207 kilograms, described as "grossly obese" and hereafter known only as Mr A B, turned up at the Department of Medicine at the Royal Infirmary in Dundee.
He was sick of being fat and wanted to lose weight by eating nothing and living off his body fat. He told the hospital staff he was going to fast flat out, whatever they said, so they may as well monitor him along the way.
He ended up fasting for one year and 17 days — that's right, he ate no food at all for over a year. He lived entirely off his copious body fat, in the end losing about 125 kilograms of weight.Full story hereThat's one way to have a full years storage with only a pocket full of supplements. The downsides are you'll probably have a shorter life expectancy.
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Jason
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Post by Jason on Dec 31, 2013 11:30:44 GMT 10
Wow!! I thought it was a hoax at first, but it seems to be true!
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Post by shinester on Dec 31, 2013 16:16:24 GMT 10
Yeah, certainly a surprise to me, which is why I thought I'd share. It makes sense really in terms of energy. 125kg of mostly fat [37,000kj/kg] would be 4,625,000kj of energy that's ready to go. Based on the RDI of 8700kj/day that's 531 days of energy. Obviously maintaining vitamins & minerals etc would be essential because the body doesn't store enough to be useable over a long term.
In a survival situation, I obviously wouldn't want to be relying on this alone, though it's quite interesting and makes you realize that humans are survival machines.
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