If you don't eat and drink, you can't last long -- four to seven days at most -- because of dehydration. A person who doesn't eat but intakes water can last for a month or longer. If a person eats but doesn't drink, he may be able to live indefinitely because of the water obtained from the food, itself.
More ...Your personal health and stamina will determine your body's ability to deal with starvation. There are people who have trained themselves to go for days without food or drink.
The information I have suggests that the mental faculties of those individuals practicing abstinence decreases considerably after approximately ten days.
The Exception
There are patients in the hospitals who cannot eat nor drink but are able to survive with the tube injection of the nutricious liquids directly attached to the blood bessel.
If you have water, you can survive without food for up to an average of 8 weeks. This varies, though, depending on the health and weight (fat stores) of the individual. It's also known that mild temperatures help. Without water, it shortens by several weeks.
As for water, a human can only survive about 3-6 days.
eating up to 1 and 1/2 weeks, drinking only a couple days, you body shuts down due to extreme dehydration
Correction:It depends a lot on what you're doing at the time. Extreme exercise means you need more Kcals and water. Being sedentary means you need less.
Regarding food, during the bad old days of The Troubles in Ireland, one of the captured IRA went on hunger strike, and survived over 80 days with no food, although at the expense of his health and physical condition.
Water, on the other hand, is much more critical. You can dehydrate in certain conditions in just a few hours. Sedentary and in reasonable temperature and humidity, you might have as much as 5 days, which has occurred from time to time, but that's pushing it.
3 months without eating food and 1 month without drinking water.
A few days
Drinking nothing would kill in 3-5 days. You can survive for several weeks without eating anything, depending on how healthy you were to begin with.
Long Periods
You can drink anything as long as it's nothing hot, drinking cold beverages can help bring down swelling so can eating ice
how long can a tutle go with out eating
By not eating or drinking water for a long period of time:)
You will start of with a dry mouth, then you will feel weak and will suffer fro terrible headaches and blurred vision, they you will pass out and die.
Immediately.
5 years
long periods
yes, as long as you tense it very often it will grow, i suggest working at the gym and eating healthily for rapid growth rates though