if a morbidly obese person suddenly stopped eating anything, and only drank water, would all the fat get burnt before this person eventually dies from starvation ? How much longer could that person theoretically survive as compared to an average one ?

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Currently on a diet. I have no idea how this weird question even got into my mind, but here we go.

In: Biology

Answer 1

Yeah this isn’t that uncommon actually, in certain cases when a person with obesity needs to go for surgery and they weigh too much for the surgeon to be certain the surgery will work they’ll go in hospital for a period and do what’s called a milk diet. Essentially they get about 600 calories a day of milk along with vitamins and micronutrients and as much water and black tea as they want. It’s to kick start weight loss and get them into a better weight range for a successful surgery.