Would It Be Possible To...
<div class="IPBDescription">...Live without eating?</div> I was thinking (Gasp),
If you were to take Vitamin suppliments (In swallowable pill form), for every vitamin, protien, fibre, etc out there.. and as long as you kept drinking water, would you need to eat, ever?
..Anybody willing to try this? <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
If you were to take Vitamin suppliments (In swallowable pill form), for every vitamin, protien, fibre, etc out there.. and as long as you kept drinking water, would you need to eat, ever?
..Anybody willing to try this? <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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I'll try, you gonna sponsor my vitamins ?
You COULD get all your vitamins and minerals from pills sure, but it's recommended you eat the food they come from itself for other added benefits (antioxidants, for one)
You can survive on a bag of chips a pint of beer and some vit's but it is nto recommended for it will not do you any good
BECAUSE YOU STILL HAVEN'T LEFT THE COMMUNITY.
You COULD get all your vitamins and minerals from pills sure, but it's recommended you eat the food they come from itself for other added benefits (antioxidants, for one)<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Bingo, stick the pizza and kebab from yesterday in a blender with a bottle of beer and that bit of chocolate you found on the floor behind the couch, mix hold your nose and drink a meal fit for kings, that will wake you up in the morning <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
As they say breakfast is the most important meal of the day, might aswell make it the best.
On a more serious note you could mix and drink all your meals, in effect not eating.
If you want engergy, take some speed. Of course, that'd kill you quicker.
But would you really want to?
I for one enjoy eating food. Most people do.
You COULD get all your vitamins and minerals from pills sure, but it's recommended you eat the food they come from itself for other added benefits (antioxidants, for one)<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Bingo, stick the pizza and kebab from yesterday in a blender with a bottle of beer and that bit of chocolate you found on the floor behind the couch, mix hold your nose and drink a meal fit for kings, that will wake you up in the morning <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
As they say breakfast is the most important meal of the day, might aswell make it the best.
On a more serious note you could mix and drink all your meals, in effect not eating. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
cant put beer in there... itd foam all over...
and you could certainly live on a feeding tube for quite a while.. just look at schiavo...
Anyway, as mentioned already, what the body mainly needs to keep going is energy. If you're not getting sufficient kilojoules of energy intake you'll start burning through you fat reserves and eventually (I think) you'll just die. Getting enough of the various nutrients and vitamins keeps things working properly, but they aren't the actual fuel. For example, if you're well-fed but don't get enough vitamin C you run the risk of things like scurvy, and if all you eat are vitamin C tablets then you'll die of starvation <i>instead</i> of scurvy.
Okay, thats stupid.. but energy is sugar and whatnot, is it not?
Or do you need to actually have that 'Stuff' in your stomache to keep tickin'?
No. Your stomach isn't that stupid.
You'd be making a lot of gurgling noise, though.
As for sugar, that's a quick burst of energy. Your body requires far greater amounts of energy just to carry out normal daily functions. Sitting down burns like..around 1k calories alone, if I remember correctly. Just from internal functions.
Yes, its called butter. <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
i think someone could do it, but i'll bet no insurance would want to cover them, they'd be more prone to like every kind of disease, and they would lead a miserable life.
Besides, humans are optimized for getting nutrients out of food, not supplements, so you'd need ALOT of them.
O and the organs do digest themselves in extreme cases of starvation, so like if you forgot to take your butter 'pill' every day, for a week, Drfuzzy would be quite correct.
If you were to take Vitamin suppliments (In swallowable pill form), for every vitamin, protien, fibre, etc out there.. and as long as you kept drinking water, would you need to eat, ever?
..Anybody willing to try this? <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Only if you pay all my expenses. If so, lets talk <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Anyway, as mentioned already, what the body mainly needs to keep going is energy. If you're not getting sufficient kilojoules of energy intake you'll start burning through you fat reserves and eventually (I think) you'll just die. Getting enough of the various nutrients and vitamins keeps things working properly, but they aren't the actual fuel. For example, if you're well-fed but don't get enough vitamin C you run the risk of things like scurvy, and if all you eat are vitamin C tablets then you'll die of starvation <i>instead</i> of scurvy. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Maybe a little off topic here but still on starvation I guess, wasn't there also an idea by the US Army that you can urinate on food to save water supplies on cooking food?