moonpiedumplings@programming.dev to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-224 hours agoWhat's the minimum number of food items you can survive on exclusively and what are they?message-squaremessage-square63fedilinkarrow-up180arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up180arrow-down1message-squareWhat's the minimum number of food items you can survive on exclusively and what are they?moonpiedumplings@programming.dev to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-224 hours agomessage-square63fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarekata1yst@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·22 hours agoI’ve often heard repeated that a human can live on water, potatoes, and salted butter basically indefinitely. Not sure how true, but seems plausible.
minus-squareInfrapink@thebrainbin.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up3·17 hours agoBefore the 1840s, Irish farmers lived on.potatoes and milk, with the odd herring in winter when milk was harder to come by. Not a pleasant diet, and you’re buggered if the potato harvest fails, but definitely doable.
minus-squareParagone@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·22 hours ago“beriberi” is malnutrition: it means literally “i cannot”. You become … not very able to do what you need to do, to survive, on this kind of diet, fairly quickly.
I’ve often heard repeated that a human can live on water, potatoes, and salted butter basically indefinitely.
Not sure how true, but seems plausible.
Before the 1840s, Irish farmers lived on.potatoes and milk, with the odd herring in winter when milk was harder to come by. Not a pleasant diet, and you’re buggered if the potato harvest fails, but definitely doable.
“beriberi” is malnutrition: it means literally “i cannot”.
You become … not very able to do what you need to do, to survive, on this kind of diet, fairly quickly.