Guinness Diet

[Thunderbolt]

Is it possible to just live off Guinness and orange juice/milk, or is this just an urban myth?

 

[Azagoth]

Is it possible to just live off Guinness and orange juice/milk

Yes, of course it's entirely possible to live on those products alone! Don't know for how long though. I'd say maybe a month or so.

 

[alexakasloth]

An urban myth I would think.

 

[randal]

Think of the poor toilets, ew what a mess.

 

[Ben M]

you'd be massively lacking in fibre. I think that your digestive system would struggle somewhat.

that and your liver would hate you.

 

[Welshy]

You might survive for a while, but I'm sure you won't feel very good...

 

[p4radox]

Definitely not.

 

[pitchfork]

You could but you'd feel terrible mate.
I need food or I become very grumpy, could never diet, I love to eat.

 

[Meridian]

Someone wrote to New Scientist to say that it was possible. But only if you drank thirty-seven gallons of Guinness a day. Which would have a number of undesirable side-effects...


M

 

[Gaverick]

Well the Irish have been doing it for the last few hundred years...

...hides from Scuzi

 

[Thunderbolt]

37 gallons, thats about 300 pints, that must have been what i was told! You'd have to drink about 5 pints a minute! Ouch

 

[Heaven Can Wait]

You can live off milk easily..
Babies do.

 

[Tom0]

You can live off milk easily..
Babies do.

Technically we shouldnt be able to, its a mutation in humans in western countries. We're supposed to lose the gene that produces the enzyme lactase when we eat solid foods and we do to some degree.

http://www.familyhealthguide.co.uk/food-intolerance.html

There is a high degree of heredity in food intolerance. For example Asian, African and Native American people are much more likely to suffer from lactose intolerance than western Europeans.

 

[Sweetloaf]

only if you drank thirty-seven gallons of Guinness a day.

WOOHOO!

Count me in

 

[BigglesPiP]

Maybe, but just think what your poo would be like!

You'd have to wash your bum every night

 

[brilliant]

As a muslim, the "guinness diet" would simply be out of the question for me, as alcohol is forbidden in islam. For others, I would say a couple of weeks before your health deteriorates significantly.

 

[Ben M]

As a muslim, the "guinness diet" would simply be out of the question for me, as alcohol is forbidden in islam. For others, I would say a couple of weeks before your health deteriorates significantly.

Are you for real?

And no, I'm not saying I didn't know that alcohol is forbidden in Islam culture. I'm talking about the two posts in the past half hour, by you, that begin with "as a muslim".

 

[lay-z-boy]

As a muslim, the "guinness diet" would simply be out of the question for me, as alcohol is forbidden in islam. For others, I would say a couple of weeks before your health deteriorates significantly.

This post is a joke, right?

I lol'd anyway.

 

[Tony Williams]

You'd bugger yourself up, a balenced diet is ideal and you wont be getting that from few different foods.

I think it's an excuse so people can drink beer all day, guilt free.

 

[Fraggr]

I'm sure you could live off it. There are 200 calories in each pint, so about 13 a day would be enough... Although I don't see where you would get protein from. Or vitamins. Or minerals...