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Is it okay to eat 100 calories a day for 3 month?

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Dr. Heidi Fowler answered

Specializes in Psychiatry

No - that is a very: Unhealthy idea. Your metabolic rate would drop and you would catabolize your muscle.

Dr Pappas and another doctor agreed

Answered 12/21/2013

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