Originally Posted By: Hacksaw
Rationing food is one of the worst things you can do. If you eat less than your body needs each day your body will begin burning fat but won't do so in a proper 'fasting' mode and you'll last way less than 40 days...and you'll always feel hungry and miserable. You should eat the food you have early and use that energy to build a good shelter and collect a boat load of firewood...


Originally Posted By: ironraven
Nu-uh. If you have the food, eat.

please note that the preceeding is a cut and paste and is not the exact order of posts and replies

It seems we have a difference of opinion here. To ration or not to ration, that is the question. Anyone have anything definitive? Yes, we do have that book reference about 5 posts back (Survival: How To Prevail in Hostile Environments by Xavier Maniguet), but I mean anything we can link to here?
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