• Question: What happens when your hungry and dont eat for a year?

    Asked by emmagrace to Dalya, Derek, Sarah, Tim, Tom on 20 Jun 2011.
    • Photo: Dalya Soond

      Dalya Soond answered on 17 Jun 2011:

      You die.

    • Photo: Tim Millar

      Tim Millar answered on 17 Jun 2011:

      As Dalya said, you die. First you begin to digest yourself with the fat first followed by the protein. Then all your organs will fail and then you die. Not a nice way to go!

    • Photo: Derek McKay-Bukowski

      Derek McKay-Bukowski answered on 17 Jun 2011:

      Typically, you could expect to last a couple of weeks without food before you starved to death.

      However, perhaps you are in a coma and are being “fed” by a tube into your arm or something. I’m not an experts, but it seems to me that this would not be eating as such.

      I wonder how long you could go on like that for?

    • Photo: Tom Crick

      Tom Crick answered on 17 Jun 2011:

      You wouldn’t last a year!

    • Photo: Sarah Thomas

      Sarah Thomas answered on 20 Jun 2011:

      you will die, the average person can only live 4-6 weeks without food.

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