When you eat nothing you burn about five pounds of fat a week.
One morbidly obese guy fasted for over a year.
“One morbidly obese guy fasted for over a year.”
Good article, thanks. Pretty much puts to bed that people die from water-only fasting.
Don’t know what planet this ‘nutritionist’ is from, but he really needs a bit of education before he speaks again on the subject.
By the way, the 5 lbs/week weight loss is exactly what I register too.
Oxaloacetate is required to oxidize fat in the TCA cycle.
Please tell the class what the source of oxaloacetate is in the context of starvation.
http://www.namrata.co/fats-burn-in-the-flame-of-carbohydrates/
We’ll wait. Again.
And what is REALLY SAD about these articles is that a lot of people never even attempt the type of diet that would allow them to see their grandchildren grow up - because they’re lead to believe it will kill them.
Very sad for them, and their families/.