Starvation

[Mortblanc]

in 1942 the US navy cut off the supply access to the Japanese troops on Guadal Canal. The troops began a slide into starvation that was well recorded.

No food and no medicine to treat the jungle illnesses.

One medical officer issued a projection to the unit commanders to measure expected efficiency and life expectancy as the problems progressed.

Those that could stand unassisted=30 days
Those that could sit up=3 weeks
Those that could not sit=1 week
Those that urinated lying down=3 days
Those that could not speak=2 days
Those that stopped blinking=tomorrow

Just thought this might be useful as the supply chain issues increase.

There are also some interesting numbers from the purposeful starvation of the Warsaw Ghetto by the Nazis during WW2. The Doctors inside the ghetto gathered as much information as they could to assist in the expected war crimes trials. They even developed charts that would give expected life span for each pound of excess weight you carried into the event and a daily calorie intake of 400 calories, which was the usual ration.

It seems that if one was 5 kilos overweight and got 400 calories daily they would last about 6 months.

Observing the videos of street scenes on the news I can note that the average US or Brit individual could last at least two years!

[CharlesHarris]

The WW2 era Minnestota Starvation Experiments established the medical principles still used for treatment of starvation victims. A number of books and scholarly journal articles were published and are still commonly referenced. This work was accomplished through the suffering of volunteer conscientious objectors which saved many lives by establishing the treatment regimes successfully used to rehabilitate repatriated POWs, concentration. camp survivors, lifeboat survivors, etc. Google is your friend here.

[bigpaul]

in 1942 the US navy cut off the supply access to the Japanese troops on Guadal Canal. The troops began a slide into starvation that was well recorded.

No food and no medicine to treat the jungle illnesses.

One medical officer issued a projection to the unit commanders to measure expected efficiency and life expectancy as the problems progressed.

Those that could stand unassisted=30 days
Those that could sit up=3 weeks
Those that could not sit=1 week
Those that urinated lying down=3 days
Those that could not speak=2 days
Those that stopped blinking=tomorrow

Just thought this might be useful as the supply chain issues increase.

There are also some interesting numbers from the purposeful starvation of the Warsaw Ghetto by the Nazis during WW2. The Doctors inside the ghetto gathered as much information as they could to assist in the expected war crimes trials. They even developed charts that would give expected life span for each pound of excess weight you carried into the event and a daily calorie intake of 400 calories, which was the usual ration.

It seems that if one was 5 kilos overweight and got 400 calories daily they would last about 6 months.

Observing the videos of street scenes on the news I can note that the average US or Brit individual could last at least two years!

unlikely, unless the human stomach gets regular intakes of food it starts eating its own lining, that is a known fact.

[bigpaul]

[Joe]

The problem is most of us have never been hungry for more than a few hours, other cultures starve themselves for weeks. We are really out of practice and I personally would struggle. My neighbour on the other hand starves himself every year as part of his religion so he would instantly have a massive advantage during an event.

[bigpaul]

the human body needs food to survive, the ultimate lack of food will result in death.

[CharlesHarris]

[CharlesHarris]