Snagged from Google Answers: "Without food, you can last around 60 days if you are a healthy adult with at least 11kg of fat in your body. It all depends on how much body fat you had in the first place. No human being can survive if he loses more than 40% of his body mass."
Then from Merck Manual: "Starvation is the most severe form of malnutrition. It may result from fasting, famine, anorexia nervosa, catastrophic disease of the GI tract, stroke, or coma. The basic metabolic response to starvation is conservation of energy and body tissues. However, the body will mobilize its own tissues as a source of energy, which results in the destruction of visceral organs and muscle and in extreme shrinkage of adipose tissue. Total starvation is fatal in 8 to 12 wk."
"In adult volunteers who fasted for 30 to 40 days, weight loss was marked (25% of initial weight), metabolic rate decreased, and the rate and amount of tissue protein breakdown decreased by about 30%. In more prolonged starvation, weight loss may reach 50% in adults and possibly more in children. Loss of organ weight is greatest in the liver and intestine, moderate in the heart and kidneys, and least in the nervous system."
So it would definitly take longer than a few days. Based on the above, I'd probably say it would take at least a month or longer for Ed to starve to death with no food at all. With food, a few months. Damnit I've looked into this so much I'm now going to write this. Are you happy???!!??
But yah. I'm officially adopting this bunny lol. Just gimmie a few days on it. I have Sunday off (woot) will write it then.
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Starvation
Date: 2005-08-03 09:19 pm (UTC)"Without food, you can last around 60 days if you are a healthy adult
with at least 11kg of fat in your body. It all depends on how much
body fat you had in the first place. No human being can survive if he
loses more than 40% of his body mass."
Then from Merck Manual:
"Starvation is the most severe form of malnutrition. It may result from fasting, famine, anorexia nervosa, catastrophic disease of the GI tract, stroke, or coma. The basic metabolic response to starvation is conservation of energy and body tissues. However, the body will mobilize its own tissues as a source of energy, which results in the destruction of visceral organs and muscle and in extreme shrinkage of adipose tissue. Total starvation is fatal in 8 to 12 wk."
"In adult volunteers who fasted for 30 to 40 days, weight loss was marked (25% of initial weight), metabolic rate decreased, and the rate and amount of tissue protein breakdown decreased by about 30%. In more prolonged starvation, weight loss may reach 50% in adults and possibly more in children. Loss of organ weight is greatest in the liver and intestine, moderate in the heart and kidneys, and least in the nervous system."
So it would definitly take longer than a few days. Based on the above, I'd probably say it would take at least a month or longer for Ed to starve to death with no food at all. With food, a few months. Damnit I've looked into this so much I'm now going to write this. Are you happy???!!??
But yah. I'm officially adopting this bunny lol. Just gimmie a few days on it. I have Sunday off (woot) will write it then.