can we live on water for rest of our life?
2007-01-07 12:15:25 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Diet & Fitness
Sam,
Have breatharians been talking to you? Those people are cons and scams. They eat when nobody's looking.
A few years ago in the Seattle Times a reporter followed a breatharian around for a while. Breatharians say that you need nothing but sunlight and water to live on, but this guy would sneak Twinkies (Twinkies!!)when he thought the reporter wasn't looking.
We know quite a bit about the complex processes of our nutrition, and none of what we know says anything at all about our being plants. No culture or society or people in history has ever lived only on water. No animal in the whole world has ever lived only on water. Even bacteria need protein. We have a digestive system with heme iron receptors (the kind of iron found in meat) in it for what reason? We need about 60 grams of protein a day, and vitamins, and minerals which can get from...water? I don't think so.
Who tries to sell us this stuff? It's false on its face. Anorexics try to live on water, and those who succeed best die. We have to eat. We need fats and proteins and carbohydrates, we know how our body combines the amino acids we eat into the proteins we need, and we know which amino acids (they're called the "essential amino acids" because we need to eat them. We don't make them ourselves) we have to eat and in what amounts.
Please don't fall for this stuff. If we could live on water, Hollywood and fashion models would have been doing that a long time ago. They can't, and neither can we.
2007-01-07 12:32:44 · answer #1 · answered by eutychusagain 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No. We would only last about 2 weeks.
Well you asked "can we live on water for rest of our life?" and your answer... yes, if you died within the next 2 weeks or so.
2007-01-07 12:37:40 · answer #2 · answered by dks64 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can live longer without food than you can live without water. However, water is not sufficient to sustain a healthy diet so you will die eventually. You need certain amount of nutrients in your body as well as a certain amount of calories. Without food, you will continue to lose weight and losing to much can cause disruptions in many functions of the body.
2007-01-07 12:23:17 · answer #3 · answered by TLC 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes you can live on water for the rest of your life, which will be about 2 weeks. 1 week before you are virtually incapacitated.
2007-01-07 12:23:39 · answer #4 · answered by QandA 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In a word, no. Pure, untainted water has positively no vitamins, calories, or other important nutrients. Water is very important in our diets, of course. But you won't live very long without food.
2007-01-07 12:27:33 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-01 23:41:22 · answer #6 · answered by anuj 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, but your life will probably only last a couple of months.
2007-01-07 12:19:47 · answer #7 · answered by jerrri 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, you wont live very long, you'll have severe malnutrition, which will wind you up in the hospitol for long terms, and possibly death.
2007-01-07 12:23:53 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sam , hon, no man can not live on water alone...
but it seems you have already started this experiment so you tell us!! Your question is already deliriously stupid!!
2007-01-07 12:37:48 · answer #9 · answered by Mee-OW =^..^= 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
yes, but you will have a very short life
2007-01-07 12:27:49 · answer #10 · answered by Abby 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋