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by answerbeggar on September 23rd, 2007

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I always heard that a human body burns calories and need nutrients to survive, how about eating something like paper and non nutritional material to get the calories and just the the vitamin pills to get the nutrient, will that work?

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  • by Mr. Sex ~ The Original Mr. Knowitall on December 14th, 2011

    Mr. Sex ~ The Original Mr. Knowitall

    No because your body needs a few 'live' nutrients occasionally to function properly. What you're suggesting has already been tried by scientists and has failed because food low in nutrients has low digestibility due to having a low biological value. Some scientist flavored (to make them palatable enogh to eat) some strips of paper and fed them to rats and gave the rats vitamins, the rats didn't live very long this way as this was too hard for their bodies to handle. The conclusion of the experiment was that food has substances in it that allow the proper absorption of nutrients that non-foods lack. If someone could find a medium that would allow nutrients to be absorbed like real food then it would work.

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  • by DA BEN DAN yanggui zi on September 23rd, 2007

    DA BEN DAN yanggui zi

    no. there is far more to nutrition than what is in a vitamin pill.

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