How come starvation isn’t used as a treatment for obesity, even though without food the body will consume fat reserves?
In: Biology
“Medical Starvation” has been done a few times where someone is given water and vitamin supplements but virtually nothing else and they do lose weight and remain otherwise healthy. But it has be be done under direct and constant doctor supervision with lost of testing to make sure you are still getting all the various vitamins and nutrients you need that are not stored in body fat. Someone doing it at their own home without supervision will most likely just die due to malnutrition.
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