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Why Does Your Body Change When You Don't Eat? 🤔

When people skip eating for many days, the body changes many of its parts.

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Key Points

4 points

Body burns stored fat for power.

Blood sugar drops, and the brain uses ketones.

Heart and muscles adjust to the new fuel.

Researchers measured these changes in studies.

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First, the stomach empties and the body starts using stored fat for energy.

Later, the brain switches to using a special fuel called ketones.

These changes happen in the heart, muscles, and other organs.

Scientists watched these changes in careful experiments.

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5 words

prolonged

lasting a long time

systematic

organized and happening in a regular way

organ

a part inside the body like the heart or brain

controlled study

a test where scientists keep things the same except one thing

significant

important or big change

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