Food and eating

[Acetyl]

People use phrases like "I'm starving" and act like they believe they'll literally die if they go more than a day or two without eating. This convenient biological illusion is an ideal means of social, economic, and behavioral control. Meanwhile, I've easily fasted for 7 days. It isn't really a big deal, apart from dangers involved with eating too much too quickly after prolonged fasting (known as refeeding, relevant >3-7 days) and the sensation of hunger leaves after 3 days. If you know this, there is far less immediate leverage in the threat of food quantity and availability, and thereby a person would become less reactive and more proactive if threatened in this way. Looking around at a lot of people they could probably go weeks without food, and be better for it too. The longest fast on record was Angus Barbieri, 382 days.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angus_Barbieri%27s_fast?useskin=vector

[Sir Seanicus, Esq.]

Fasting is starting to really gain ground as of late, I think.

[pineapplejuice]

It's said that one of the incarnations of Buddha could fast for over seven years without food and not perish.

[pineapplejuice]

Only growing children NEED food constantly. As an adult you really won't die if you stop eating for a while.

[Boblin the Goblin]

引用自 Acetyl：

People use phrases like "I'm starving" and act like they believe they'll literally die if they go more than a day or two without eating. This convenient biological illusion is an ideal means of social, economic, and behavioral control. Meanwhile, I've easily fasted for 7 days. It isn't really a big deal, apart from dangers involved with eating too much too quickly after prolonged fasting (known as refeeding, relevant >3-7 days) and the sensation of hunger leaves after 3 days. If you know this, there is far less immediate leverage in the threat of food quantity and availability, and thereby a person would become less reactive and more proactive if threatened in this way. Looking around at a lot of people they could probably go weeks without food, and be better for it too. The longest fast on record was Angus Barbieri, 382 days.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angus_Barbieri%27s_fast?useskin=vector

Do not encourage people to starve themselves.

[Under there]

these days your food is as likely to kill you as not eating it is

[Tristin]

引用自 Acetyl：

Food and eating

People use phrases like "I'm starving" and act like they believe they'll literally die if they go more than a day or two without eating. This convenient biological illusion is an ideal means of social, economic, and behavioral control. Meanwhile, I've easily fasted for 7 days. It isn't really a big deal, apart from dangers involved with eating too much too quickly after prolonged fasting (known as refeeding, relevant >3-7 days) and the sensation of hunger leaves after 3 days. If you know this, there is far less immediate leverage in the threat of food quantity and availability, and thereby a person would become less reactive and more proactive if threatened in this way. Looking around at a lot of people they could probably go weeks without food, and be better for it too. The longest fast on record was Angus Barbieri, 382 days.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angus_Barbieri%27s_fast?useskin=vector

Sure if you sit around and do nothing much of physical or mental work, yeah you could fast for long period. Otherwise, one would need to consume to carry out such tasks. Obviously. For health reasons, one should not fast if not pursing some achievement of mental enlightenment or as of religion reasons.

[pineapplejuice]

Who cares what an adult eats. let them eat like English royalty who ate until they vomited and ate some more. Or let them become bulimic. All that matters is that growing and developing children and adolescents can eat to their hearts content.

[Vakers]

This is probably one of the stupidest rants I've seen on here, bravo. Google hyperbole, OP. It might blow your mind to learn this fascinating concept.

[Acetyl]

引用自 Tristin：

Sure if you sit around and do nothing much of physical or mental work, yeah you could fast for long period. Otherwise, one would need to consume to carry out such tasks. Obviously. For health reasons, one should not fast if not pursing some achievement of mental enlightenment or as of religion reasons.

Mentally / cognitively, you become more clear minded. Physically it varies. I've found it mostly becomes an issue with heavier or sustained exertion, things that require bursts of energy or something higher than baseline such as a lot of whole body motion (think like weeding a garden vs walking, where the former is more demanding). The more mundane everyday stuff, driving, walking, cooking, it's not an issue.

[aqua star]

引用自 Qubo Night Owl：

It's said that one of the incarnations of Buddha could fast for over seven years without food and not perish.

Ever heard of Sokushinbutsu, basically the monks fast, then stop liquid intakes in order to be self-mummified. This was not viewed as suicide, but rather as form of enlightenment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokushinbutsu

[Plaid]

If I don't eat, the coffee will tear a hole through my gut, or at least it feels like it is.

[pineapplejuice]

引用自 Plaid：

If I don't eat, the coffee will tear a hole through my gut, or at least it feels like it is.

Coffee makes your body abandon it's water. The C affine is a defense mechanism of the plant to keep away bugs and animals. Coffee destroys Genetic information that your brain was born with and hinders your offspring from having it as well. We as humans don't really use genetic info we rely on extra genetic info but it should still be avoided

[Rumpelcrutchskin]

Suggesting people to starve themselves for a week is pretty idiotic and irresponsible thing to do.
Just because some random lunatic at internet thinks that it`s good for them doesn`t mean that everyone should follow this idiotic advice.

[swillfly]

引用自 Acetyl：

People use phrases like "I'm starving" and act like they believe they'll literally die if they go more than a day or two without eating. This convenient biological illusion is an ideal means of social, economic, and behavioral control. Meanwhile, I've easily fasted for 7 days. It isn't really a big deal, apart from dangers involved with eating too much too quickly after prolonged fasting (known as refeeding, relevant >3-7 days) and the sensation of hunger leaves after 3 days. If you know this, there is far less immediate leverage in the threat of food quantity and availability, and thereby a person would become less reactive and more proactive if threatened in this way. Looking around at a lot of people they could probably go weeks without food, and be better for it too. The longest fast on record was Angus Barbieri, 382 days.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angus_Barbieri%27s_fast?useskin=vector

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[Tonepoet]

You're seeing conspiracy theories where there are none. People use exaggerations as a figure of speech so often there is even a special word for it, which is hyperbole.

Also, it is not as if farmers invented that pit you feel in your stomach when you feel hungry all of the sudden. It's probably the most significant form of suffering people feel in their day to day lives in times of complacency.

Besides, there is an element of truth to it. The starving to death is a progressive process that takes over the course of time, which starts with being hungry for a few hours, and the greatest amount of suffering a person feels is presumptively before they die, so it is not as if you are going to necessarily be feeling fine until the last moment you could possibly eat and still survive comes. You'll be feeling famished well before that because the evolutionary purpose of feeling hungry is to convince you of the need to eat before you even reach that point, in part because as formerly wild creatures, we did not always have access to such an abundance of food, so we needed some lead time to procure it.

Edit: Whoops, misunderstood, so the portion that was previously here isn't particularly relevant.