Why can people last longer without food than they can without water? Food has water in it. Does this not factor in to survival?
In: Biology
We store sugars in our liver, and we store fat all over the body. We don’t really have the same storage mechanisms for water (all water is basically used up or peed out). Most of your body is water, everything in your body is bathed in water, and we get rid of water when we pee and sweat and make saliva, etc.
So basically we need a lot of water and being dehydrated is going to kill you faster than malnutrition because we require more water to survive than we do food to survive.
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