14 DAY TRIAL // Let's be honest here, food is awesome. If it weren't, supermarkets, restaurants, hot-dog stands and the like would not be quite as popular or as successful as they are.
The thing is that, exquisite flavors aside, there is one other reason we love food as much as we do: it keeps us alive and has done so for many millennia now.
Still, one cannot help but wonder what would happen if we were to just wake up one day and decide we want to stop eating. Not for an hour or two, but for good.
Well, leave it to a new brilliant AsapSCIENCE video to sort out this riddle. Spoiler alert: it wouldn't be pretty or entertaining. Not in the slightest.
True, nothing would happen for about 6 hours. Make it past this mark, however, and your body would enter starvation mode and be forced to tap into its fat reserves.
Eat nothing for more than 72 hours, and your body would ditch the fat and turn to breaking down the very proteins that comprise it instead. Yup, we're talking muscles.
In a couple of weeks, you would become vulnerable to all sorts of diseases. Another few weeks and you would likely die of heart failure. Not something to look forward to, right?
So, the morale of the story: if you haven't eaten anything in about 6 hours, you’d better go grab yourself a hamburger. Or maybe a salad, to keep it on the healthy side.
