• Question: How long can the human body survive without food?

    Asked by penguin123 to Emma, Jimmy, Janet, Niall, Simon on 15 Mar 2013.
    • Photo: Niall Crawford

      Niall Crawford answered on 15 Mar 2013:

      Depends on your age, your weight, and how big your last meal was. But there are records of people lasting a month without food.

    • Photo: Emma Ashley

      Emma Ashley answered on 15 Mar 2013:

      As long as you’ve got a constant supply of water, I think it can be a fairly long time… a couple of months? Depends on how much fat you’ve got stored on you, the more the better.

      http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17095605

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