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Originally Posted by Parthon  The body can go 30ish days without food, but only 3 days without water. |
More realistically, the body can go 60-90+ days without food (not that going that long would be healthy), and at least 6-10 days without water. The water figure comes from a hiking book (
Beyond Backpacking by Ray Jardine) that gave stats on how long one could expect to survive without water while continuing to hike, depending on the temperature. Even among the terminally ill, it can take a week without food or water to lapse into a coma, and another few days to finally die.
I've fasted two days without food or water before and felt perfectly fine, just somewhat missing the act of eating and drinking, though at that point I'd been doing weekly one day water fasts for a couple years, and my diet was fairly good. I don't feel a need to do any more dry fasts, it was just something done out of curiosity.