How long could a human survive on just coffee, cream and sugar?

Use the sugar only once a week, double-up the cream, and you can go years, easy.

(Your gut will be a bit problematic, though.)

Kee-toe is all this is ...

I am skeptical about the people answering that you could live indefinitely or for years with this type of diet. My guess would be that someone could survive more than one year, but quality of life would be pretty limited. Maybe the answer is only months though.

Read about the guy who only ate meat for a month. In order to get enough calories, he had to consume way too much protein, of which the excess caused his resting glucose level to rise to a near-diabetic level in only 30 days.

With this coffee, cream, and sugar diet, you would be getting calories directly from sugar, and since I'm no expert, I don't know if that would result in a similar scenario to the all meat diet. I suspect that this diet might induce diabetes within months.

So, how long could a person with diabetes survive on this diet?

Are you allowed to drink water too? I think that the acidity of the coffee and the acid formed by digesting the cream and sugar would be problematic as well.

rojo wrote:

Clean as a whistle wrote:

How long could a human survive on just coffee, cream and sugar? To keep the discussion on track, let's say that the allowable ratio would be for every 8 ounces of coffee, you could have one small pack of sugar and one small single serving size of cream, but you could have as much as you like assuming you stick to this ratio.

Are we talking weeks, months or years???

Great thread.

I think years. I basically live off of Coke/Dr. Pepper.

Well if that's all i could eat it might be tough.

You don't live off Coke/Dr. Pepper. Why would you say something like that? I am sure you eat all the time. Fast food, dinners with friends/clients, etc.

This is a running message board. What is your 5k time?

rojo wrote:

Clean as a whistle wrote:

How long could a human survive on just coffee, cream and sugar? To keep the discussion on track, let's say that the allowable ratio would be for every 8 ounces of coffee, you could have one small pack of sugar and one small single serving size of cream, but you could have as much as you like assuming you stick to this ratio.

Are we talking weeks, months or years???

Great thread.

I think years. I basically live off of Coke/Dr. Pepper.

Well if that's all i could eat it might be tough.

rojo, you should crowdfund for a pizza. I'll donate $1 I'm sure others will chip in too.

Would salt become problematic? Not much salt in that combination at all. Are you allowed water? Presume so as it's in coffee.

Clean as a whistle wrote:

How long could a human survive on just coffee, cream and sugar? To keep the discussion on track, let's say that the allowable ratio would be for every 8 ounces of coffee, you could have one small pack of sugar and one small single serving size of cream, but you could have as much as you like assuming you stick to this ratio.

Are we talking weeks, months or years???

Without the sugar we're talking a matter of days.

With the sugar life expectancy goes way up.

Cream is the best choice

Anyone who has been in the service knows that you would survive until mandatory retirement age.

rrr wrote:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scurvy

You would get scurvy and die.

Yeah...scurvy would happen. Would not be fun.