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sabina

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  People can live quite a while without food. Why cant people live just as long without water?
 


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  When a person dies, his or her body becomes stiff. Why does this happen?
 


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Reply #1 on: Aug 21, 2018
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Depending on the amount of fat and protein in the body, a person can live for several weeks without consuming food. However, water is a different story. A person can only live for 3 to 4 days without water because the body does not store it nor does it produce much of it. In addition, water is continually lost via perspiration, urine, and feces. Water is necessary to keep your metabolism working properly, and without it, blood pressure can fall to dangerously low levels, blood clots may form, and the kidneys cannot function adequately.


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When a person dies, cells are no longer able to maintain aerobic energy metabolism. As a result, ATP is not produced. The lack of ATP causes muscles to remain contracteda condition called rigor mortis.


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