• kata1yst@sh.itjust.works
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      5 hours ago

      I’ve often heard repeated that a human can live on water, potatoes, and salted butter basically indefinitely.

      Not sure how true, but seems plausible.

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        4 hours ago

        “beriberi” is malnutrition: it means literally “i cannot”.

        You become … not very able to do what you need to do, to survive, on this kind of diet, fairly quickly.