How long can a person live without water or food?

Answer 1

"While the body can survive without food for about five weeks, the body cannot survive without water for longer than three days." An average adult male can survive for 30 to 40 days without food.

Food...

The human body has been proved to survive without food for 3 weeks, That's if your lucky if you don't eat probably the human body will survive for at least a week BUT if you decide to not eat don't work out as it gets rid of your fat lensing the chance of your survival.

Water...

3 days the body can with stand, JUST 3 days PLEASE don't try and survive without water. You will die very shortly if you do not avoid these things:

1. Crying

2. Sweating

3. Peeing (if you can)

4. DON'T breathe through your mouth it dries your throat quicker and you will surely die.

Answer

In 1981 a series of prisoners in Northern Ireland went on hunger strike. They joined the protest in stages. Ten of them died. The numbers of days the ten who died lasted were ..... 46 59 60 61 61 61 62 66 71 73

Several others were convinced to come off the hunger strike by their families.... some of those had lasted over 50 days, and one 70. These people were not doing anything physical, and were in a position where they were being closely monitored and at least one was in the semi-comfort of the prioson hospital.... so while the figures are a good guide to how long people can go without food some consdideration needs to be given to the particular circumstances of this strike.

Answer 2

Sorry, but you can survive ALOT longer than 1-2 weeks......Have you ever heard of the Holocaust? Those poor souls were "walking Zombies". They "survived", weeks, months, even years eating nothing or very, very little. It is amazing how long a human body can live as long as you get alittle H2O occasionally and a piece of bread.

Answer 3

It depends on your body weight and your BMI; Given an adequate supply of water it is possible, but unlikely, to live up to twenty-five consecutive weeks. This is assuming you mean for a lack of calories only. After fifteen weeks you would be much less likely to survive due to your immune system crashing and being unable to be mobile. Without water you would succumb to death within seventy two to eighty hours. The lack of necessary vitamins and minerals will cause a quicker onset of death, so it would also depend on your state of health prior to the starvation period.

*Please note that the twenty week estimation is assuming you had access to some form of multivitamin. A complete lack of say, vitamin c, will cause scurvy & death within one months - forty-five days.

Answer 4

The average human can survive roughly 14days with out food.

Answer 5

Less than one week without water.

Answer 6

5-6 days