Posted on 10/21/2016 11:24:39 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Most people can survive without food for at least a few weeks, maybe a bit longer. Eventually, however, starvation kills.
Yet the limits on how long people can go without eating are complicated; without water people are unlikely to last a week, but the amount of time starvation takes can vary drastically.
Take the story of Angus Barbieri. For 382 days, ending July 11, 1966, the then-27-year-old Scotsman ate nothing.
There's limited documentation of Barbieri's fast: there are a few old newspaper stories recounting his ordeal and more convincingly, there's a case report describing the experience that his doctors published in the Postgraduate Medical Journal in 1973.
According to that report, Barbieri had walked into the University Department of Medicine at the Royal Infirmary of Dundee, Scotland, more than a year before, looking for help. He was "grossly obese" at the time, according to his doctors, weighing 456 pounds. The doctors put him on a short fast, thinking it would help him lose some weight, though they didn't expect him to keep it off.
But as days without food turned into weeks, Barbieri felt eager to continue the program. Absurd and risky as his goal sounded — fasts over 40 days were and still are considered dangerous — he wanted to reach his "ideal weight," 180 pounds. So he kept going.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
We’re also prepared for deep water endurance.
What? No before and after pics?
Eating sensibly must also include carbs if the weight boomerangs back.
If your body has plenty of fat available to burn, why couldn’t you go beyond 40 days. I suspect you could go into an extended state of ketosis until there’s nothing left.
300 lbs of fat is a lot of energy to burn through.
I don’t believe the stuff about the illness but i DO beleive she had a video screen on her lectern because I SAW her reading it.
Is Angus still around?
Oh shoot I was responding to the video up near the top from Anonymous regarding Hillary having a video screen during the last debate. Forgot what the original thread was about! Sorry!!!
Here’s a nutrition prof that lost almost 30 pounds eating junk food!
Twinkie diet helps nutrition professor lose 27 pounds
http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/11/08/twinkie.diet.professor/
It’s all about the calories you take in versus you expend.
Thanks that was very good...perfectly sums up why I am voting Trump..
I thought farts were to give you a little alone time.
scroll down to page 5
http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1966/07/12/#page/5/article/scot-eats-his-1-st-solid-food-in-392-days
Before and after photo
http://www.terapeak.com/worth/1966-wire-photo-angus-barbieri-s-photo-after-a-fast-like-dieting-cvw10011/351558456649/
I”t is well known that after 3 or 4 days of fasting (totally - only water), you lose your appetite and all desire to eat.
The roughest part is the first 3 or 4 days.
Did 2 - 2 week fasts many years ago.......about a year apart......”
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True in my case. I do frequent short fasts. Under 14 days. Do vitamins/supplements. First couple days or thereafter when hungry you sip water. I do the high alkaline water). My purpose is gut cleansing n detox. Truly is a spiritual side. Weight loss a tagalong benefit
You should become a journalist. Apparently no one else thought to ask that in the recent blog articles circulated. So I checked....
Find A Grave has an entry for an Angus Barbieri, buried in the town cemetery where he resided per the news articles (Tayport, Fife, Scotland) with a death date of September 7, 1990. If this is the same Angus, he would have died about age 50.
Calories are important, but so is the glycemic index of what one eats and insulin response that drives weight gain/ loss.
Barbieri took vitamins on various occasions throughout the fast, including potassium and sodium supplements.
Add in coffee, tea and other drinks that could have sugar in them, and he was simply on a very low calorie diet with sufficient nutrition.
Relatively young. I always wonder how fasting etc... impacts long term health... Still with him being so heavy before there could have been other issues.
Assuming that the report is accurate (i.e., just the part from the medical community, discounting what he claims), his weight loss timeline almost precisely matches the 0.7 lb/day of fat that a body needs to burn to keep running.
I fast on a regular basis for weight control (only ‘diet’ that works for me), with 9 days being the longest, but I’ll likely go to 14 days soon. As others noted, it’s not bad after several days, you body adjusts (slows down a bit) and you live in that state without a overwhelming hunger (much easier than trying to live on a low-calorie diet).
I know it’s very hard for the medical community to accept anything they’re not taught (heck, my doctor was just trying to get me on Statins, idiot). So if I said to him I was on a fasting diet, most likely I would have left his office in a straight-jacket.
But sometimes it makes sense to look back a bit further. Why do we create and store body fat in the first place, when we always have 3 well-balanced meals (LOL)? I think we all agree that it dates back many moons ago, back to bad times, when it could be weeks between mastodons. Based on that, it would only make sense that fat contains everything needed to survive, as I doubt they had many Rite-Aid Pharmacies back then. And that is the case, as this guy and many others have shown.
So my advice is not to be afraid to try living as humans have 99+% of their existence on this planet. If you’re otherwise healthy and have the extra fat on you, it may be worth trying...of course don’t overdue it, because there is a point where you body runs out of fat...so don’t even cut it too close.
“I thought farts were to give you a little alone time.”
I rely on my personality for that.
But taking vitamins and supplements can offset those effects. Once the body shifts to fat burning as an energy source since it denied carbs it should work. But for that long? I don't know and I don't even play a doctor on TV.
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