• barsoap@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    A non-underweight and otherwise healthy adult can forego food for a week without issue, it’s not that big a deal. We would never have survived evolution if we couldn’t do that.

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      8 months ago

      It’s exactly why we store energy as fat in the first place, so when the getting is good it prepares us for when it isn’t.

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      8 months ago

      surviving and healthy are two different things.

      It puts stress on your body. Not a problem for most people, but can still put people in danger if preexisting conditions exist

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        8 months ago

        Exercise puts stress on your body. Not a problem for most people, but can still put people in danger if preexisting conditions exist.

        The thing about stress is that complete lack of it is a stress all of its own. Aside from psychological stress, that is, that one is wholly superfluous.