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<blockquote data-quote="FireDragon76" data-source="post: 77433273" data-attributes="member: 330042"><p>The strength and alertness in such situations is often due to elevated adrenaline due to starvation. Living in such a situation long term will also take a toll on the human body, and will make it more vulnerable to infectious illness. In fact that's how most people living under starvation conditions die (infectious disease).</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The main adaptation that tends to happen are increases or decreases in non-exercise related activity. Fidgeting, pacing, the propensity to undertake physical activity, etc. In the Nazi death camps at Auschwitz in Poland, the guards and prisoners called the worst victims of starvation <em>Muselmänner</em> because they tended to just lay about on the ground, prostrate.</p><p></p><p>Humans are warm-blooded animals, and there are limits to how efficient they can become in utilizing calories. A cold-blooded creature like a snake or a cricket can turn much of the food it consumes into body mass and growth, but a human being has to spend alot of his or her energy maintaining a constant body temperature.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FireDragon76, post: 77433273, member: 330042"] The strength and alertness in such situations is often due to elevated adrenaline due to starvation. Living in such a situation long term will also take a toll on the human body, and will make it more vulnerable to infectious illness. In fact that's how most people living under starvation conditions die (infectious disease). The main adaptation that tends to happen are increases or decreases in non-exercise related activity. Fidgeting, pacing, the propensity to undertake physical activity, etc. In the Nazi death camps at Auschwitz in Poland, the guards and prisoners called the worst victims of starvation [I]Muselmänner[/I] because they tended to just lay about on the ground, prostrate. Humans are warm-blooded animals, and there are limits to how efficient they can become in utilizing calories. A cold-blooded creature like a snake or a cricket can turn much of the food it consumes into body mass and growth, but a human being has to spend alot of his or her energy maintaining a constant body temperature. [/QUOTE]
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