How Much Food Does Someone Need In Order To Not Starve?

So as we consider this subject of starvation, there is an important point that must be assessed to have full understanding of this reprehensible plight.


The point that we all have the responsibility to understand is this: How much food does someone need so that they won’t starve?


This would be a reasonable question with this subject. If we are trying to figure out how to form a plan to save those who are suffering from starvation, then we need to know all that we can about starvation. A minimal place to start would be to answer the question of how much food someone needs so that they will not starve (Note: we are not talking about full nutrition, but we are simply discussing the amount of food needed for someone to sustain an active life).
So how much food does someone need in order that they will not starve?


In order to simply stay alive, a person needs to eat enough calories that would be ten times their body weight (this would be increased by about 20% -30% if a person is moving around a lot in a day and 50%-60% if a person is actively working throughout the day). So here is what that looks like in actuality.


A person living in Africa in the throws of starvation weighs from 100 – 130 pounds. So that person would need between 1000 to 1300 calories each day. Some days a person could simply survive on less; thus, the actual total would be somewhere around 750 calories each day to survive.


What would this look like? Remember, if a person is on the verge of starvation, they will only have the monetary ability to buy certain foods like rice, porridge, corn, and the like. 750 calories would be the equivalent of something like this:


3 cups of rice

Or

4 cups of corn

Or

2 cups of cooked wheat flour.


These are the basic amounts of food that will keep someone alive. It does not seem like that much because it is not that much. Even though – if we are going to do this – we need to do this right and give people enough food for a daily active life. But still, this is the base amount that people need to not starve.


We can do that, can’t we???