Bob Peterson wrote:
"North" wrote in message
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On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 02:10:31 GMT, KB9WFK said:
On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 19:50:33 GMT, (dstvns) wrote:
On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 01:42:22 GMT, (Richard A.
Lewis) wrote:
On a 3,000-4,000cal diet, you'll need to eat approximately 12 pounds
of potatoes per day just to maintain your body weight. Add in the
artichokes, if they're of a comparable cal level as the taters, and
you got just over two days of food before you start starving.
Who the hell eats 4 thousand calories a day?
Once you let your body aclimated to sub zero temps, your
metabolism
increases to the level of 4000 to 5000 calories a day just to
provide the heat to keep you warm
It is also common for infantrymen in the heat of battle to burn
4000
to 5000 calories a day.
And of those that did, how many would try to get all of those calories
from a single food source like potatos? I just pray for their sake
that they don't try to raise a lone crop of Habanero peppers. I don't
know how many pounds of those you would have to choke down per day but
I think spontanious human combustion would be the result. :-)
There is a way to get your cals from taters and other veggies, simply
fry them in lard, or fat, even veggie oil.
Another way is to eat some taters with a hamburger.
By frying the veggies in fat, you change everything.
The problem is where do you get the fats? the nuts that think you can live
off a small garden are just dreaming. you can't do it without a lot of back
breaking work, and even then the diet is poor and you run the risk of health
problems from poor diet.
better to figure in a lot of animal protein and fat as a big chunk of your
diet. much easier than trying to eat 20 pounds of cauliflower every day.
The Independent