"Gotta love all of the 'more intellectual than thou' posters who brush off two weeks"
And the answer to the question without all the, jump to conclusions about the person, is?
Jump to conclusions? Is that what you were doing with your "holier than thou" statement? Good to know.
The answer is that any stress, physiological or emotional, will readily exacerbate the condition and starvation/dehydration are extreme stressors.