Another battle of the sexes thread, oh yay.  Everlast, why do you feel the need to do this?  I’ve been on Cathinfo for quite sometime and it has never been so ripe with threads bashing women.  Threads that have zero to do with gender specific topics have been transforming into how degenerate women are today.  Why do you want to rehash the sentiment over and over again?

Another battle of the sexes thread, oh yay.  Everlast, why do you feel the need to do this?  I’ve been on Cathinfo for quite sometime and it has never been so ripe with threads bashing women.  Threads that have zero to do with gender specific topics have been transforming into how degenerate women are today.  Why do you want to rehash the sentiment over and over again?

"bashing women" ...  - emotional response.

My friend, I have bashed men more than women on here. I've only told objective truths about both, if you don't like, it go complain to Matthew. 

Maybe the men took more risks to help the women survive.I always try to look at things from different perspectives.

😵‍💫 that’s what I said! 

“🤣 well you do have the advantage of men having to die to protect you as well. Male flesh has always been cheap. And edible apparently 🤢🤮“

I think it's a little of both.  Women do have stronger immune systems in general, meant to help protect their unborn children, shield them from things, but then they also do get some of those immune factors that newborns have back (IGF and even some stem cells, especially from umbilical cord and placenta).

Men in general tend to work more dangerous jobs (accidents), more physical jobs (heart attacks), more stressful jobs (also heart attacks and strokes), and, ironically, also the more sedentary jobs (also heart attacks ... since you sit there in a cube, at a desk, behind a computer for 8 hours per day).

Of course, during war time, the male population can get decimated.  I've heard stories about WW2 (in Hungary) from my grandparents, since the men were hauled off to be canon fodder at the tip of the Russian front (as a buffer to protect the Germans), and very few of them returned from many places.  There's some prophecy somewhere about a time when ten women will be competing for each man who survived.

But here I think is the ideal prep, in fact, it's nature's prep, or God's prep in a way.

If there's an impending economic collapse, what better way to store preps than to put on like 200 pounds of body weight?  That stored body fact could keep you going for a year, and, as you put the weight on, you gradually develop the leg strength to easily carry it.  Then, as you drop the weight, you'd have enough muscle to kick butt.  And it's about the most efficient storage you can get.  PLUS, the government can steal your food preps, but would never think to liposuction you to get rid of those preps.  At 3500 calories per pound of body fat, 200 pounds would get you 2,000 calories per day for an entire year.  So you get a year's supply of food that you can carry around with you.  Can you imagine carrying a year's supply of storable food with you?  You couldn't.  Your body keeps it from spoiling (no refrigeration or freeze drying or anything else required).

If there's an impending economic collapse, what better way to store preps than to put on like 200 pounds of body weight?  That stored body fact could keep you going for a year, and, as you put the weight on, you gradually develop the leg strength to easily carry it.  Then, as you drop the weight, you'd have enough muscle to kick butt.  And it's about the most efficient storage you can get.  PLUS, the government can steal your food preps, but would never think to liposuction you to get rid of those preps.  At 3500 calories per pound of body fat, 200 pounds would get you 2,000 calories per day for an entire year.  So you get a year's supply of food that you can carry around with you.  Can you imagine carrying a year's supply of storable food with you?  You couldn't.  Your body keeps it from spoiling (no refrigeration or freeze drying or anything else required).

If only it worked that way and the extra weight didn't cause extra health issues.  

Ladislaus,

Actually every survivalist I've read and listened to (which are quite numerous, though most of them were years ago for me) completely disagreed with the "put on weight for survival" strategy. I confess I thought the same thing when I first read this ("wouldn't the apocalypse help you quickly lose weight? Wouldn't the extra fat come in handy?") but apparently not.

In fact, they said to do the exact opposite. To "get in shape" and basically have as little fat as possible. Perhaps so you can move more easily? Perhaps because you won't be able to secure safety/water/supplies/etc. with a frame carrying around so much extra weight? Perhaps it's because a 300 lb individual requires more calories/day to exist than a 200 lb person? More water per day as well.

And all those with more than 50 extra pounds on their body -- how far can you walk in a day? Can you easily walk a 10 mile hike or pilgrimage? How about 15 miles? How fast or far can you run? On a long walk or hike do your thighs chafe, knees and feet hurt, etc.? Do you get tired of walking/hiking before most other participants? Do you sweat more (and require more water) than others, due to your body size? Carrying extra weight is bad and disadvantageous RIGHT NOW, not just "someday" when it causes diabetes and/or heart issues.

Fasting isn't as simple as "not eating" -- aren't there issues with minerals, hydration, etc.? I'm not a doctor, but I believe it's more complicated than "let's carry a years worth of preps 24/7 around my waistline".

But unless you literally have NO food available, you're not going to be fasting. You're going to feel the need for food more than anyone else around you, ironically enough. You're going to be eating whatever your family has -- and in much greater quantities then they are, due to your increased caloric needs. A 300 lb machine requires more fuel than a 200 lb one. It's simple physics.

Let's take a measurement "Kid-days": how much food a kid would need to eat for a day. How many EXTRA kid-days of food will you be consuming every day, because you are 50 or 100 lbs overweight? A normal adult might consume 2.5 Kid-days of food per day. But an overweight adult might eat 4 or 5 Kid-days of food. Your extra weight becomes a burden on your family.

Seriously, I never heard a single one suggest this "gain weight for survival" strategy. I have to believe they know what they're talking about.

Supliments like a good multivitamin and pro/pre biotics are a great addition as well

Healthmasters.com

Im pretty sure you can get antibiotics online now too