it’s not something you like to think
about even though it’s something that we
constantly have to fend off don’t you
have any respect for your self
welcome to watchmojo.com and today is
installment we’ll be counting down the
top 5 most fascinating facts about
starvation number 5 your body is really
good at not starving skinny you’re
skinny it’s interesting to think about
the mechanisms that your body enacts in
order to prevent itself from starving to
death if you’re any thinner you wouldn’t
exist glucose is the body’s main source
of energy and our glucose stores from
eating a meal lasts about 6 hours our
glucose reserves last for anywhere
between 24 and 48 hours and then the
body enters ketosis which means that it
is surviving on your stores of fatty
acids
once those are depleted the body will
literally eat away at its own muscles
for protein assuming it remains hydrated
the body can survive on the bare minimum
amounts of energy required for 30 to 60
days and even up to 70 in some cases for
dying of starvation number 4 starvation
was a form of capital punishment while
it may not be as painful some other
practices starvation was once used as an
agonizing form of torture and capital
punishment and was even practiced until
the early 20th century in Mongolia
starvation was often accomplished by a
mere mint the process of walling up
someone in an enclosed space usually in
order to dehydrate and starve them to
death captives were sometimes given
small amounts of water to sustain the
body in order to maximize the length and
severity of the sentence as was the case
with serial killer Elizabeth the blood
countess Bathory who was immured for
four years before dying of causes other
than starvation king richard ii of
england starved to death while
imprisoned in the Tower of London I have
been studying how I may compare this
prison where I live unto the world
though some believe he was just
straight-up murdered
number three you are what your
grandfather ate researchers in
överkalix Sweden examined centuries of
the town’s meticulously kept records on
the citizens health and annual crop
yields they found that individuals who
suffered through periods of famine when
they were between eight and twelve years
old
produced healthier offspring than those
who had sufficient food supplies for
example those with a grandfather who
suffered through prepubescent famine had
one-quarter the risk of heart disease
were less prone to diabetes and lived
longer lives critics of the study argue
that these records alone can’t tell the
whole story and without molecular
evidence we should basically ignore this
data but nevertheless it’s interesting
to think that your grandpa’s health
could affect yours okay number two
climate change is detrimental to both
the environment and our food supplies as
the changes are bringing about more
floods and droughts than ever before
contributing to the breakdown of our
food systems the World Food Programme
estimates that as many as one in nine
people currently do not have enough food
to maintain a healthy lifestyle but this
could dramatically increase in 30 years
time the WFP conclude that without
proper intervention world hunger could
increase by as much as 20% by the year
2050 this is because most of the world’s
hungry populations live in areas prone
to significant hazards caused by climate
change number one we’ve made a dent in
world hunger on the bright side
even if hunger levels are poised to rise
the world has done a fairly decent job
of lowering rates of hunger in the last
couple of decades the World Food Program
estimates that twelve point nine percent
of the world’s population does not have
enough food which is down from twenty
three point three percent in the early
1990s seventy two out of the 129
countries monitored by the Food and
Agricultural organization of the united
nations have achieved their Millennium
Development Goal of cutting metal
nourishment around the world in half by
2015
despite the population growing by 1.9
billion people in the last 25 years
there are 216 million fewer
undernourished people today let’s just
hope that we can keep climate change
under control so what do you think will
we ever make world hunger a thing of the
past for more gluttonous top tens and
malnourished top fives published every
day be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com
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about even though it’s something that we
constantly have to fend off don’t you
have any respect for your self
welcome to watchmojo.com and today is
installment we’ll be counting down the
top 5 most fascinating facts about
starvation number 5 your body is really
good at not starving skinny you’re
skinny it’s interesting to think about
the mechanisms that your body enacts in
order to prevent itself from starving to
death if you’re any thinner you wouldn’t
exist glucose is the body’s main source
of energy and our glucose stores from
eating a meal lasts about 6 hours our
glucose reserves last for anywhere
between 24 and 48 hours and then the
body enters ketosis which means that it
is surviving on your stores of fatty
acids
once those are depleted the body will
literally eat away at its own muscles
for protein assuming it remains hydrated
the body can survive on the bare minimum
amounts of energy required for 30 to 60
days and even up to 70 in some cases for
dying of starvation number 4 starvation
was a form of capital punishment while
it may not be as painful some other
practices starvation was once used as an
agonizing form of torture and capital
punishment and was even practiced until
the early 20th century in Mongolia
starvation was often accomplished by a
mere mint the process of walling up
someone in an enclosed space usually in
order to dehydrate and starve them to
death captives were sometimes given
small amounts of water to sustain the
body in order to maximize the length and
severity of the sentence as was the case
with serial killer Elizabeth the blood
countess Bathory who was immured for
four years before dying of causes other
than starvation king richard ii of
england starved to death while
imprisoned in the Tower of London I have
been studying how I may compare this
prison where I live unto the world
though some believe he was just
straight-up murdered
number three you are what your
grandfather ate researchers in
överkalix Sweden examined centuries of
the town’s meticulously kept records on
the citizens health and annual crop
yields they found that individuals who
suffered through periods of famine when
they were between eight and twelve years
old
produced healthier offspring than those
who had sufficient food supplies for
example those with a grandfather who
suffered through prepubescent famine had
one-quarter the risk of heart disease
were less prone to diabetes and lived
longer lives critics of the study argue
that these records alone can’t tell the
whole story and without molecular
evidence we should basically ignore this
data but nevertheless it’s interesting
to think that your grandpa’s health
could affect yours okay number two
climate change is detrimental to both
the environment and our food supplies as
the changes are bringing about more
floods and droughts than ever before
contributing to the breakdown of our
food systems the World Food Programme
estimates that as many as one in nine
people currently do not have enough food
to maintain a healthy lifestyle but this
could dramatically increase in 30 years
time the WFP conclude that without
proper intervention world hunger could
increase by as much as 20% by the year
2050 this is because most of the world’s
hungry populations live in areas prone
to significant hazards caused by climate
change number one we’ve made a dent in
world hunger on the bright side
even if hunger levels are poised to rise
the world has done a fairly decent job
of lowering rates of hunger in the last
couple of decades the World Food Program
estimates that twelve point nine percent
of the world’s population does not have
enough food which is down from twenty
three point three percent in the early
1990s seventy two out of the 129
countries monitored by the Food and
Agricultural organization of the united
nations have achieved their Millennium
Development Goal of cutting metal
nourishment around the world in half by
2015
despite the population growing by 1.9
billion people in the last 25 years
there are 216 million fewer
undernourished people today let’s just
hope that we can keep climate change
under control so what do you think will
we ever make world hunger a thing of the
past for more gluttonous top tens and
malnourished top fives published every
day be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com
[Music]
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