What Happens to Your Body After Starvation?
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According to the World Health Organization, hunger is the single gravest threat to the world's public health. When the body is deprived of food, a cascade of physiological and psychological changes occur in an effort to sustain life, which is precisely what happens to your body after starvation. This adaptive process, however, comes at a devastating cost to nearly every organ and system within the human body.
