Let's say an adult male was given nothing to eat and drink except bread and water. How long would he be able to survive for?
I'd say at least two years. Maybe more than two decades if he was allowed to take some multivitamins.
Any other opinions?
Let's say an adult male was given nothing to eat and drink except bread and water. How long would he be able to survive for?
I'd say at least two years. Maybe more than two decades if he was allowed to take some multivitamins.
Any other opinions?
Well, you know, now they have cheese breads and tomato breads and... stuff like that.
Well you actually added water on your own accord. and what about bread-like foods (ie cereal, pretzels)
pretzels always make me thirsty
Adding wrote:
pretzels always make me thirsty
Yea, me too.
Any question you can think of, Cecil has already answered.
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/191/can-man-live-by-bread-alone
This is a very good and relevant question for today's societal situation. Now if we rule out bread as a non-choice for slitary food for sussistance, what foods should we consider? Could man live restricted to an eggplant only diet? How about an orange only diet? Keep in mind each dietary selection comes with the allowance of water as well. I think we have to eliminae single, multi ingrediant main dishes from the list (i.e chicken cordon blea, etc). This is an important physical question that must be answered by the great minds of LetsRun.
Prolly longer than that guy on this site who's trying to live on Alpo, but probably not longer than the other guy who's trying to live on Oreo's and milk.
"Prolly" is the most ignorant slang term ever devised by mankind.
Is this the new version of the hackneyed "Predict My Time" threads, "How long could I live on Alpo, Oreos, bread, dog doo doo, whatever"?
speculation wrote:
Let's say an adult male was given nothing to eat and drink except bread and water. How long would he be able to survive for?
I'd say at least two years. Maybe more than two decades if he was allowed to take some multivitamins.
Any other opinions?
Would definitely need to take multivitamins to live a long time on just bread. Humans NEED Vitamin C in their diet or they develop scurvy, and death will result unless vitamin C is taken.
I take it you are allowed a little manna.
I like dem cookies wrote:
Prolly longer than that guy on this site who's trying to live on Alpo, but probably not longer than the other guy who's trying to live on Oreo's and milk.
I think you'd live longer on Alpo and water than bread and water.
Jesus says, no, you cannot live by bread alone.
In eighteenth century France, practically the whole country lived on bread alone. Huge loaves of super-dense wheat bread were about all poor people had, along with some horrible wine.
OldXCguy wrote:
Is this the new version of the hackneyed "Predict My Time" threads, "How long could I live on Alpo, Oreos, bread, dog doo doo, whatever"?
How long could someone live on Bear Grylls warm poop if they were in a blizzard?
Luke 4:4 Jesus answered, "it is written 'Man does not live on bread alone'" (NIV)
Deuteronomy 8:3 He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your fathers had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord. (NIV)
So no, man cannot live by bread alone
Let's quote properly:
"Jesus answered him, saying, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.’
I love toast. On this speculated diet am I able to utilize bread spreads to enhance the flavor of the toasted bread?
Hey, the US fortified bread and flour with folic acid and other crap....why can't they just fortify all bread to make nutritionally equal to TOTAL cereal. Sounds like a good idea, but I predict cancer rates would increase with an overload of sythentic vitamins in our systems.
You can certainly live off bread alone. Example: Brenton Handa