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Ask HN: Will I die thin or fat?
I am a fat person 130kg (almost 290 pounds) lost in the mountains with access to water, but no food at all. Later when you find my dead body, am I still fat or I will die thin?
- cimmanom 8y agoIf you truly find no food, fat - though less so. Your body can live for a little while off your fat stores, but with no proteins it will eventually start to break down. I’ve seen 6 weeks cited as a typical life expectancy without food. Even on a starvation diet, that’s not long enough to lose the minimum 100+ lbs an average adult would need to drop to reach a vaguely healthy weight. This paper [1] suggests that 6 weeks of starvation would result in less than 40lbs of weight loss. [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1274154/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1274154/
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