Can body fat protect against starvation?

How long can you avoid death by starvation? Fat will not help much with dehydration, although it does store more water than other tissues. With no water, you will usually die within 3 weeks maximum. read more

Although your body needs calories over the long run to keep going (which you can get from body fat) in the short term it will need a steady supply of various nutrients to survive. Body fat loss will occur, but for example if they are not getting a good supply of vitamin C, they will get scurvy. read more

However, losing weight and losing fat are two different stories. Weight loss does not necessarily equal fat loss. Dieting: Starvation Protection Mechanism. The secret with any serious and long-lasting attempt at weight loss is to “trick” the starvation protection mechanism of the body. read more

Food that is stored in the body is always in the form of fat , so that it can be used later on. So whatever little you eat during starvation/fasting gets converted and stored as fat. The physical stress during starvation leads to release of substances that slow down the metabolism . read more