[foI3fKWv]

I heard on TV the presenter said a scholar or somebody lived heathily on dates and water during the whole month. Is this possible? You'd need meat, fish, fruits, veg, dairy produce, grains, other good nutritional foods for the rest of year however?

[Kimmitmelvirm]

I know this much that Maulana Taliban Saheb is currently successfully living on his water fasting during his itikaaf. and has lived over weeks on just water. So add those immense nutrients of dates and milk to it. I am sure it will be a nourishing diet.

[gIWnXYkw]

Depending on the person, you can survive more or less for about a month on water alone. Your mental and physical performance will be suboptimal, to say the least. If you have a fast metabolism and no fat stores, you will starve to death faster than a fat person. But even the fattest person won't last much longer than a month with no food. You can starve to death and still be fat, because your body can't synthesize ATP from its own proteins/fats fast enough and without causing serious damage to itself. You would die from organ failure and/or suffocation before your fat got used up.

As for living on dates and milk the whole rest of the year, I don't know if dates and milk contain all the nutrients you need to be healthy. Between the two of them, they probably do. Even if not, I suspect you could survive for a very long time eating only dates and milk. It was possible for people to survive on bread and water for long periods of time in the days before refined flour, because the bread still contained most of the nutrients from the plant. I think dates and milk would provide better nutrition than just bread.

[heennaRaf]

There are cases of Muslims and non Muslims living without food for months and some claim years. Recently there was a Indian Yogi who claimed he had not eaten anything for years, not sure if he was telling the truth.

Obviously only some people can do this the rest of us would probably die as you say.

Depending on the person, you can survive more or less for about a month on water alone. Your mental and physical performance will be suboptimal, to say the least. If you have a fast metabolism and no fat stores, you will starve to death faster than a fat person. But even the fattest person won't last much longer than a month with no food. You can starve to death and still be fat, because your body can't synthesize ATP from its own proteins/fats fast enough and without causing serious damage to itself. You would die from organ failure and/or suffocation before your fat got used up.

As for living on dates and milk the whole rest of the year, I don't know if dates and milk contain all the nutrients you need to be healthy. Between the two of them, they probably do. Even if not, I suspect you could survive for a very long time eating only dates and milk. It was possible for people to survive on bread and water for long periods of time in the days before refined flour, because the bread still contained most of the nutrients from the plant. I think dates and milk would provide better nutrition than just bread.

[arindiruppya]

Not quite the same but i went about 3 months having 4 dates and a glass of milk for dinner instead of a full meal. I had no adverse effects and on the contrary stayed healthy and felt full in the evenings. It just shows how much the food we eat is just for the pleasure of eating rather than actual nutrient value.
(i actually stopped the diet not because it wasn't healthy, but because I needed to go on a muscle gaining diet.. however I think milk and dates for one meal a day is fantastic to maintain weight and is healthy.)..

[whimpykid]

And verily in cattle (too)
Will ye find an instructive Sign.
From what is within their bodies,
Between excretions and blood,
We produce, for your drink,
Milk, pure and agreeable
To those who drink it. 16:66