What is the minimum a person can eat to survive?
                                
                                
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                                Research indicates that eating fewer than 1,000 calories per day has the same physiological effect as total starvation, posing extreme health risks. This raises a critical question: what is the minimum a person can eat and still survive, and what are the dangers of such severe caloric restriction?