the 12 day rule.

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(13 April 2013, 10:10)bigpaul Wrote: anybody heard of this?? seems in a large event humans need 500 calories per day, somewhere dry and warm, and need a minimum of 6 hours rest per 24 hours, failure to get all this the body shuts down and people start dying......could be then when TSHTF we would be looking at a large die off 12 days+ after the actual event.

You certainly do not need 6 hours rest in any 24 hours, soldiers do that often, so that's a complete untruth, I have done it many, many times and I still live, and provided you get food and water the body [ and mind ] will start to adjust to a lower level of rest than 6 hours over a period of time

You do not need 500 cal a day every day, there are days that you dont need to eat at all, how many of us have been really ill and not eaten,.. we are still here, we didn't die,.. the average person can go for about 3 weeks without food before death,... mind you, you will be fairly rough after a week,.. even some diets suggest that you eat one day and not the next

After 12 days without food some will have died, but providing they get water and the person was healthy, then there will be many weak people out there, [ dieing maybe,.. but maybe not yet ],.... but there will be food around for a while, either gathered, stored or stolen,.. so 12 days is too early to see much death I think