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How long can a person live without eating?
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View Poll Results: How long can a person live without eating?
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3-5 days
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5.26% |
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6-9 days
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12.28% |
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10-14 days
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14.04% |
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15-18 days
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1.75% |
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19-23 days
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5.26% |
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24-28 days
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5.26% |
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28 + days
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28.07% |
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Who gives a shit?
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14.04% |
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What a stupid question.
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6 |
10.53% |
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Let me think about it while I eat my Snickers bar.
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3.51% |
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04-18-2003, 12:56 AM
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Tat2d Freak
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How long can a person live without eating?
Ok, very dumb question.
I am not going to do it and I do not recommend you try this at home...but "How long can a person live without eating?" This is regarding EATING not DRINKING.
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~health and fitness are a lifestyle~
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04-18-2003, 01:04 AM
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Tat2d Freak
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I know it was a creepy question. It was one of those things I was wondering. I tried to look it up online...and I couldn't find an answer so I thought I would see what everyone thought.
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~health and fitness are a lifestyle~
Pounds lost as of 6/06/09: 4
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04-18-2003, 07:31 AM
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EAST COAST BRAT
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I was told approximately 10 days granted they have water at least. Now, when you say living you mean, breathing and a heartbeat, correct??
Other factors to consider woiuld be what their climate is. Ethiopia, no water or food, I'd die in 2 to 3 days!!!
Manitoba.. probably a 7 days (3 days falling short of boredom unless J'bo is accompanying me!  )
Florida, NYC, LA- 10 days.
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04-18-2003, 08:14 AM
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Cuddle Slut
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Really now Dave. Winnipeg idn't that boring if it's summer and you are only visiting.
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....and thats my $.02
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04-18-2003, 11:51 AM
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I think Jesus fasted for 40 days in the desert.
I think as long as you have water you can live for weeks.
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04-18-2003, 12:00 PM
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EAST COAST BRAT
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Quote:
Originally posted by J'Bo
Really now Dave. Winnipeg idn't that boring if it's summer and you are only visiting.
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I knew you'd catch that! 
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04-18-2003, 02:32 PM
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Quote:
Originally posted by PB&J
I think Jesus fasted for 40 days in the desert.
I think as long as you have water you can live for weeks.
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yes he did. the longest you can live is aorund 40 days, but you have to drink a lot of water.
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back for the first time....
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04-18-2003, 02:45 PM
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I heard that Satan fasted for 50 days in hell. 
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04-18-2003, 03:27 PM
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Cuddle Slut
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Doesn't it depend on how lean/fat you are?
And yes Dave i did catch that...you know me ms.observent
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....and thats my $.02
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04-18-2003, 03:39 PM
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Quote:
Originally posted by Prince
I heard that Satan fasted for 50 days in hell.
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ROTF! 
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04-18-2003, 07:36 PM
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Its going to depend on the individual, of course. Women historically have higher endurance for these kind of things, probably due to fat storage, maybe metabolic rate, being smaller (using less energy) and so on.
I think the record is a little over a month, the record for a liquid diet I believe is around a year. Also keep in mind the bodies needs change under starvation conditions, this is why the body holds fat/water as best its can when you only eat say once a day.
Cambridge diet is a liquid, low calorie diet, and has a reputation for lots of people dying on it. I believe they are usually around the 1100 calorie a day area.
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04-19-2003, 09:08 AM
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EAST COAST BRAT
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Quote:
Originally posted by Prince
I heard that Satan fasted for 50 days in hell.
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good one, Prince!
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04-19-2003, 10:41 AM
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Quote:
Originally posted by Prince
I heard that Satan fasted for 50 days in hell.
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I heard he still is , bet he wants a drink a water!
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Ya never know
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04-22-2003, 12:09 AM
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Without food and water I would say I cud go on for about one week. With water maybe two. Not something I’m willing to find out …
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04-22-2003, 07:23 AM
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I thought I heard somewhere that the average person can go about a month without food, and only about four days without water.
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04-22-2003, 08:11 AM
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Tat2d Freak
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I bet you would look like shit after a month of fasting.
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~health and fitness are a lifestyle~
Pounds lost as of 6/06/09: 4
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04-22-2003, 08:58 AM
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EAST COAST BRAT
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I second that!
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04-22-2003, 11:05 AM
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It could take as much as 60+ days to strave to death depending size and health, but no water 3 days maybe a week.
Don't try this at home 
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Ya never know
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04-23-2003, 02:15 AM
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I think its 30 to 40 days, but it depends on the individual and how much activity is done in that time frame. With out water you can only last 3 to 4 days.
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 ROCK ON
Be nice to me; someday you may be laying on the street, look up and Ill be there loading you into an ambulance.
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04-23-2003, 12:54 PM
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EAST COAST BRAT
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Live on water for 40 days and still breathing?? Forget it and give me a shotgun! 
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04-24-2003, 07:19 AM
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With this metabolism I think I could last for a couple of years. 
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04-24-2003, 12:29 PM
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id die after a day, im only 130 5'11, my metabolism is threw the roof, if i miss a meal in a day i want to shoot myself 
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06-29-2003, 09:34 PM
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411 Days.. No kidding.. Can't believe?
Read the links below Hira Ratan Manek
Another link
A Physician's review..
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06-30-2003, 12:28 PM
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Record for liquid diet is 1 year or more, or maybe the above  I dont follow it.
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07-01-2003, 08:38 PM
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Obviously till they die!!!! Ummm medically speakin that is.
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07-16-2003, 10:41 PM
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07-19-2003, 08:27 AM
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Cuddle Slut
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i cant live 3 hours without eating 
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....and thats my $.02
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07-21-2003, 08:53 AM
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My second cousin was working on the roof and he fell off and crashed through the shed and it was locked from the outside. All he had was a coffee can full of water and a box of dried fruit. He ate all that fruit in two days and didn't have nothing else to eat. They said he lived about six weeks.
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07-22-2003, 10:57 PM
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...said he lived about six weeks.
looks like he beat jesus...
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07-27-2003, 08:49 AM
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In the Bible, Jesus, Moses (twice), and Elijah all fasted for 40days.
Jesus for 40 days. If God in human flesh fasted, how much more ought we? Matthew 4:2
Moses fasted twice for 40 days-Following his first fast, Moses received the Law. The second was to turn God's wrath away from God's sinful people. Deuteronomy 9:9,18,19
Elijah fasted for 40 days while fleeing in fear from wicked Jezebel, who threatened to have him killed. God gave him comfort, boldness and instructions to go back the way he came and anoint new prophets. 1 Kings 19
Medical testing has been done to see if the human body can handle a fast of 40+ days. All tests have been done unsucessfully. The body can't take a fast of 411 days, it would long be dead. Fasting's real good at the right time, but defidently not on a lifting day!
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