Current Events > Would I die if all I drank was water and chocolate milk?

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Yes.

You'd need to add vitamins and other supplements to make sure you don't die from malnutrition.

I would not recommend doing that.

yes you'll die of scurvy

MrFingers07 posted...

I would not recommend doing that.

I mean chocolate milk does have vitamins and minerals.

Kai_Laguna posted...

You'd need to add vitamins and other supplements to make sure you don't die from malnutrition.

vitamins don't work, you have to get vitamins from food. otherwise people could take vitamins and drink water and eat bread and live and they absolutely cannot.

The water and chocolatemilk won't hurt you.

the not eating will

Well chocolate milk has a fuck ton of sugar, so idk what kind of diet that is >_>

You need actual food, too.

You'll be fine. Trust me. I am a doctor

Robot2600 posted...

vitamins don't work, you have to get vitamins from food. otherwise people could take vitamins and drink water and eat bread and live and they absolutely cannot.

Why not

You need to add beer to that. You need the nutrients from yeast as they provide all the essential amino acids.
I still would not do that tho.

again you'll die of scurvy first. milk has 0 vitamin C and humans do not produce our own vitamin C.

second would be iron deficiency, but it doesn't matter because you'd die in 4 months of scurvy.

your teeth would start to fall out after 8 weeks.

A human will die in 3 days without water. It varies in regards to calories. So you'll be ok as long as you add an orange once a month.

Robot2600 posted...

vitamins don't work, you have to get vitamins from food. otherwise people could take vitamins and drink water and eat bread and live and they absolutely cannot.

There have in fact been people that have gone on long term fasts where they got all their nutrients from vitamins and supplements but otherwise consumed nothing but water, they obviously had extensive medical support during the period.

There was an 'influencer' or 'vlogger' or what ever you call them. I think she was on some fruit only diet. And she died from malnutrition or something

Every body is different though right?

you can do a healthy, liquid diet, but not on just water and sugar milk

yes, but the topic title is worded incorrectly. if all you drank was that, you would not die. if you only consumed that, and did not consume food, you would die in a few weeks.

eggcorn posted...

Why not

they (scientists) don't know exactly why not, but it's clear you can't just take vitamin pills. Whatever we make in a lab doesn't get absorbed the same way food does. it's even questionable if "vitamin infusing" foods does anything at all. you can't just mix a bunch of "vitamins" into a chocolate cake and live off that, otherwise that's exactly what everyone would be doing.

the supplement industry is a billion billion dollar industry, it obviously doesnt want ppl to know it's snake oil.

HOON posted...

You need to add beer to that. You need the nutrients from yeast as they provide all the essential amino acids.
I still would not do that tho.

beer also has no vitamin c.

you'd need something like lentils, 13-bean soup, rice, and chocolate milk

Kai_Laguna posted...

There have in fact been people that have gone on long term fasts where they got all their nutrients from vitamins and supplements but otherwise consumed nothing but water, they obviously had extensive medical support during the period.

studies I found went for 10 days. i said you'd get scurvy after 8 weeks.

you can go a week without food, yes.

anything else we gone need a source.

Giant_Aspirin posted...

you can do a healthy, liquid diet, but not on just water and sugar milk

"liquid" diets involve smoothies and shakes. yes you can blend your food into a liquid if youd rather not chew.

Robot2600 posted...

beer also has no vitamin c.

you'd need something like lentils, 13-bean soup, rice, and chocolate milk

Some beers do. Juice force from voodoo ranger has juice in it. Blue moon is made with orange peels.

If you only drank those while still eating a normal diet you'd be fine; but literally just those with no food will not end well.

The milk is nutritious enough to sustain you for a long time, the sugar in the chocolate milk syrup is really bad though.

Eating only 1 thing for prolonged periods is not recommended. Humans are omnivorous and we're hunters, gatherers, scavengers, and farmers for a reason.

Robot2600 posted...

"liquid" diets involve smoothies and shakes. yes you can blend your food into a liquid if youd rather not chew.

exactly.

Torgo posted...

The milk is nutritious enough to sustain you for a long time, the sugar in the chocolate milk syrup is really bad though.

Eating only 1 thing for prolonged periods is not recommended. Humans are omnivorous and we're hunters, gatherers, scavengers, and farmers for a reason.

like, again, the milk is not "nutritious" enough because it has no vitamin c.

HOON posted...

Some beers do. Juice force from voodoo ranger has juice in it. Blue moon is made with orange peels.

blue moon has .2 milligrams of vitamin c in one. you need about 80 mg a day so 400 blue moons a day, which of course would simply kill you on day 1.

voodoo ranger has 0% vitamin C.

You could live for years on it probably. Youd be in poor health tho

Just eat less calories than you burn.

main concerns for nutrition:

need:

-salt
-sugar
-vitamin c
-vitamin d
-b12
-iron
-fiber
-copper
-proteins
-phosphorus
-magnesium
-zinc
-iodine
-potassium
-fat
-riboflavin

and im probably missing a few but these are most of it.

surprisingly, if you could only eat 1 type of food, the potato is the healthiest because it has tons of vitamin c as well as starches and other stuff. there are cases of people eating basically only french fries and they don't have problems (except brain problems).

potatoes and lentils would probably take care of most things, but eating a variety of vegetables is gonna be better I think.

boomgetchopped3 posted...

You could live for years on it probably. Youd be in poor health tho

no you could not, just to be clear you would die in 4 months of drinking only milk. your teeth would fall out after 8 weeks.

edit: i spent a lot of time reading about scurvy recently.

Robot2600 posted...

main concerns for nutrition:

need:

-salt
-sugar
-vitamin c
-vitamin d
-b12
-iron
-fiber
-copper
-proteins
-phosphorus
-magnesium
-zinc
-iodine
-potassium
-fat
-riboflavin

and im probably missing a few but these are most of it.

surprisingly, if you could only eat 1 type of food, the potato is the healthiest because it has tons of vitamin c as well as starches and other stuff. there are cases of people eating basically only french fries and they don't have problems (except brain problems).

potatoes and lentils would probably take care of most things, but eating a variety of vegetables is gonna be better I think.

Supposedly people can live indefinitely eating nothing but potatoes and szlted butter.

Robot2600 posted...

no you could not, just to be clear you would die in 4 months of drinking only milk. your teeth would fall out after 8 weeks.

edit: i spent a lot of time reading about scurvy recently.

You didn't need teeth if you aren't chewing.

Kai_Laguna posted...

Supposedly people can live indefinitely eating nothing but potatoes and szlted butter.

i did mention this with the "french fry people" that don't die

edit: and we demonize potatoes. like what in the fuck. blame big sugar and big dairy and monsanto going at it with disinformation for 7 decades.

Robot2600 posted...

it's even questionable if "vitamin infusing" foods does anything at all. you can't just mix a bunch of "vitamins" into a chocolate cake and live off that, otherwise that's exactly what everyone would be doing.

That is often done though. Flour tends to have certain vitamins added to it. And those do appear to get absorbed.