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Starvation Mode

choijanro
choijanro Posts: 754 Member
edited January 31 in Food and Nutrition
Is it true that you are starving or hunger or starvation mode,, your metabolism will slow and your body will store fat?

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  • stefjc
    stefjc Posts: 484 Member
    I am coming to love your questions. Slowly.

    Try searching for the details, lots and lost of threads on it.

    Short answer - no, cos it doesn't exist in the way it is bandied around here.

    If you want to go straight to the source google The Minnesota Project and Starvation Mode.... you will find out where all the diet gurus got their information from and how it got skewed.
  • kellehbeans
    kellehbeans Posts: 838 Member
    Doesn't exist within a few days of not eating. Has to be months or years - that's when your metabolism slows. So yeah - starvation mode - a myth.
  • chicledefresa
    chicledefresa Posts: 3
    I'm agree with Kellehbeans, you need month or years to produce a change in your metabolism! don't worry about that.
  • neanderthin
    neanderthin Posts: 10,429 Member
    No.
  • 55in13
    55in13 Posts: 1,091 Member
    It is a myth. In studies where people eat reduced calorie diets over 1000 calories, metabolism slows only 4% to 10% and there is no point at which reducing calories doesn't increase the deficit. "Eat more" = "lose less" and "eat less" = "lose more" when done in clinical settings where accuracy of recording is assured. Making sure you are getting nutrients for health is a different issue.
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