how long would it take to die if you ate only glazed doughnuts and drank only water?

Question

If glazed doughnuts and water were all you could eat and drink, theoretically, how long would it take you to die? Lets use krispy kreme glazed doughnuts as the standard.

Answer 1

Months, maybe as long as a year.

The human body becomes dehydrated and fails after only one week without water, but most of us have fat reserves that the body can use when it is starving. After that the body will cannibalize its own muscles to keep you alive. Since the time for this varies with your weight, the amount of muscles and fat you have and your metabolic weight it is hard to measure when it will happen.

Sugar is fattening and a very good fuel for the body so you would take a very long time to die, maybe as long as a year. You would only die of diet deficiencies like the lack of certain vitamins and minerals after a long time.

You are probably wondering if the poor health effects caused by eating all those donuts will kill you before the diet insufficiencies do, and they won't. As you build up fat in your body, your body will be tearing it down at the same time trying to find those valuable trace vitamins and minerals. The body can go for a while like this, and it can use more expensive ways to create substitutes for what it needs. However, at some point it will run out of those substitutes as well and then key parts of the body will start to fail.

I don't know which organ will go first, but I expect that you will be heavy set, with rotten teeth (since there is no calcium to repair them), suffering heart of lung failure. You can live for a while with kidney and liver failure. The failure of your spleen and intestines as well as the stomach won't really be fatal, but it they will lead to other failures, which will finally result in heart, or lung failure.

Your death would be a painful and slow one, you would lose bladder control at some point and be bed ridden, as your body functions start to shut down you would lose sphincter control and then muscle control. If you continued to stick to your donut diet then you would finally slip into a coma, as your body stopped producing the insulin required to handle all the sugar in your body. However, you would remain alive until finally your heart and lungs gave out.

Almost all forms of death are caused when the heart and lungs fail. The root causes vary, but the end result is always the same. Something fails, creating a cascade failure that results in an eventual failure of the heart and lungs.

Answer 2

That depends on a lot of factors. Could be as quick as 10 minutes or sooner even if you're a proffessional scarffer, and then there's your current health to consider. How many you can eat normally in 10 minutes .. I think my personal best is 20. but then we'd need to know what they were glazed with .. so many options there, and theoretically you'd never have the will to eat that last one because it would mean you couldn't enjoy the next.

Answer 3

she would be waiting to be large! needless to say your canine isn't used to eating human food ever or you does no longer be freaking out like this so she could finally end up with slightly sugar rush and in step with risk some diarrhea or maybe some vomiting yet no longer something to hurry to the vet over. So cool down she would be waiting to be large!

Answer 4

I dont think you'd die from this diet but I reckon you'd look and feel pretty bad, real quick...........

Answer 5

hahahaha i'll give you 6 months

Answer 6

I wouldn't know I haven't tried that, but let me know once you are dead, if you try it.