the 12 day rule.

[bigpaul]

(13 April 2013, 20:46)Highlander Wrote: 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

sorry my friend, i have to disagree. i did 12 hour shifts when i worked in the telephone exchange, with maybe 2-3 hours sleep, and we felt really rough by the morning. yes you can go for 3 weeks without food but people arent going to be in very good condition even after 12 days without food, their going to be very weak, i think i read somewhere that if you go without food for a long time the stomach starts eating its own lining? i think a lot of food will be damaged or destroyed in the initial rioting and violence, especially in the cities where there are more people the food is not going to stretch so far and with no more supplies coming in people will start starving fairly soon on, especially those with no food stores to start with.