[pjerem]

> When you talk about this with people, it’s startling how many believe that skipping some meals is dicing with death.

Hahahaha, this, yes.

Last summer during a whole company offsite we happened to play some quizz game where you had to give the nearest answer. One question was « How much time could you survive without eating anything except water ? ».

Boy did I won this guess by trying a random « 30 days » because I knew world records are amounted in months. The other answers were all, without exceptions, around 2 to 3 days and nothing more than a week.