moonpiedumplings@programming.dev to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-226 days agoWhat's the minimum number of food items you can survive on exclusively and what are they?message-squaremessage-square25linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareWhat's the minimum number of food items you can survive on exclusively and what are they?moonpiedumplings@programming.dev to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-226 days agomessage-square25linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squarekata1yst@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·26 days agoI’ve often heard repeated that a human can live on water, potatoes, and salted butter basically indefinitely. Not sure how true, but seems plausible.
minus-squareParagone@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·26 days ago“beriberi” is malnutrition: it means literally “i cannot”. You become … not very able to do what you need to do, to survive, on this kind of diet, fairly quickly.
I’ve often heard repeated that a human can live on water, potatoes, and salted butter basically indefinitely.
Not sure how true, but seems plausible.
“beriberi” is malnutrition: it means literally “i cannot”.
You become … not very able to do what you need to do, to survive, on this kind of diet, fairly quickly.