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[+] -26 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

Food really isn't something one needs that quickly unless you've got no fat on your body. I remember reading a paper about an obese guy who (voluntarily) fasted under care of a doctor for over a year. Took vitamins, but other than that, just water.

Water, on the other hand, is really important. No water, you're dead inside a week, maybe a little longer.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago

    But these people are not obese. They're already starving to death.

    Nutrition screenings conducted at shelters and health centres in the north found that 15.6 per cent – or 1 in 6 children under 2 years of age – are acutely malnourished. Of these, almost 3 per cent suffer from severe wasting, the most life-threatening form of malnutrition, which puts young children at highest risk of medical complications and death unless they receive urgent treatment.

    https://www.who.int/news/item/19-02-2024-children-s-lives-threatened-by-rising-malnutrition-in-the-gaza-strip

    And that's from nearly three weeks ago.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago

    You mean the water Israel has controlled, destroyed and extorted since they started the occupation in 1967? They've also irreparably contaminated ground water, bombed water infrastructure, and shut off the pipes from access to the water they take from Gaza.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Gazans are already chronically malnourished, though, not obese. And some parts of Gaza have been under occupation for months. Babies are already dying and soon children, then adults will follow.

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