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tazzygirl -> RE: Fasting (9/6/2011 1:38:17 AM)
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First, I never said it happened over night. Maybe a biology class is what you should be looking in too. Or a nutrition one.
The condition of not eating is called anorexia. In anorexia, the person does not want to eat for fear of becoming fat. But the result is the same. No nurtitional intake at all... though someone with anorexia may take in as little as 600 calories a day.... a fasting water-only diet indicates no caloric intake at all.
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You can easily live a month without food. People have been stranded on desert islands, some have taken to eating bark off of trees, some ate bugs.
What you speak of is malnutrition, not starvation. The people from your quote are still getting in some calories. Someone on a 40 day water-only fast is taking in none. Even the photos of the emaciated children with the bloated stomachs are suffering from severe malnutrition.... starvation is different.
Dieting, especially extreme food-intake reduction and rapid weight loss, can have the following side effects and consequences:
Subsequent weight re-gain
Lowered metabolism, causing future attempts at weight loss to become more difficult, and making weight gain easier
Muscle atrophy
Risk of developing Eating Disorders, especially Anorexia Nervosa or Bulimia Nervosa, even if initial intentions of dieting were health-wise
Prolonged hunger
Depression
Reduced sex drive
Fatigue
Irritability
Fainting
Sinus problems (especially post-nasal drip)
Rashes
Acidosis
Bloodshot eyes
Gallbladder disease
Seizures
Malnutrition, possibly leading to death
Constipation, due to lack of food-intake
Dehydration, due to lack of fluid-intake
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starvation_diet#Dangers_of_fasting
A person with anorexia nervosa may exhibit a number of signs and symptoms, some of which are listed below. The type and severity vary in each case and may be present but not readily apparent. Anorexia nervosa and the associated malnutrition that results from self-imposed starvation, can cause severe complications in every major organ system in the body.[15][16][17]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anorexia_Nervosa
Conclusions— The adolescent girls with anorexia nervosa had significant structural and functional cardiac abnormalities in comparison to the control group.All these abnormalities were reversible except low R wave amplitude in V6.
http://poj.peeters-leuven.be/content.php?url=article&id=2005139
After several days of fasting, all cells in the body begin to break down protein. This releases amino acids into the bloodstream, which can be converted into glucose by the liver. Since much of our muscle mass is protein, this phenomenon is responsible for the wasting away of muscle mass seen in starvation.
However, the body is able to selectively decide which cells will break down protein and which will not. About 2–3 g of protein has to be broken down to synthesise 1 g of glucose; about 20–30 g of protein is broken down each day to make 10 g of glucose to keep the brain alive. However, this number may decrease the longer the fasting period is continued in order to conserve protein.
Starvation ensues when the fat reserves are completely exhausted and protein is the only fuel source available to the body. Thus, after periods of starvation, the loss of body protein affects the function of important organs, and death results, even if there are still fat reserves left unused. (In a leaner person, the fat reserves are depleted earlier, the protein depletion occurs sooner, and therefore death occurs sooner.)
The ultimate cause of death is, in general, cardiac arrhythmia or cardiac arrest brought on by tissue degradation and electrolyte imbalances.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starvation_response
Simply put.... my imformation is based upon science and research... not something I pulled out of thin air.
Now, if you want to argue science, lets go for it. These were but simplistic exampled. I can get quite indepth and provide loads of research which indicate what I stated to be correct.
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