• Paragone@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Egg-bread & scrambled-eggs ( with a multivitamin every other day ) can get you FAR, ultra-cheap ( if you ever need to get through a month on nearly-nothing ).

    ( obviously this isn’t long-term, this is short-term-survival stuff )

    add-in carrots, if you can.

    A bit of broccoli makes a BIG difference in one’s health.

    Do what you can to get some omega-3’s into you: our bodies can’t make them, & if our bodies have to make omega-6’s & omega-9’s, apparently they just run mitochondria backwards, to do it.

    Even a tablespoon of olive-oil / day will help your body keep functioning.

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      1 month 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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        1 month 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.

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      1 month ago

      You’re missing a bunch of micro nutrients which would cause problems over time with this. It has all the calories and protein you need though.

      Add in some fat from somewhere like cooking oil, and a handful of vegetables like onions, carrots, etc. and you’d last a fairly normal human lifespan.

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        1 month ago

        Vegetables often contain oil, the problem is getting omega-3’s, which our bodies can’t make.

        In the sea, it’s algae who’re producing it: then krill, then squid/fish/etc eat them…

        some plants make it, some don’t…

        olives are good, olive-oil, etc…

        but anybody who’s eating squash is getting omega-6’s or 9’s, even though it seems non-intuitive.