<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>al_chemist</author><text>Not true.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Starvation_response&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Starvation_response&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; the body burns fat after first exhausting the contents of the digestive tract along with glycogen reserves stored in liver cells and after significant protein loss.[2] After prolonged periods of starvation, the body uses the proteins within muscle tissue as a fuel source.</text><parent_chain><item><author>atarian</author><text>Fat is actually one of the last things the body burns during starvation. Your muscles usually go first.</text></item><item><author>Tade0</author><text>My father had the misfortune of being a civilian in Kuwait during the first gulf war. What I learned from his stories is that the line between normalcy and utter chaos is thinner than one would think.&lt;p&gt;The war itself from the perspective of someone not actively participating is mostly &lt;i&gt;boring&lt;/i&gt; (his words) - you can&amp;#x27;t really go outside, cable is down(no internet back then), not much is happening.&lt;p&gt;But the brief transition period between peace and war is the worst. People desperately trying to stock up in the last minutes, quickly realizing that it&amp;#x27;s pointless to stand in line and pay when there are so many more of them than the supermarket&amp;#x27;s staff.&lt;p&gt;I, for one, &amp;quot;prepared&amp;quot; by weighing 10kg more than a few years ago. I have body fat to spare. My only worry is a good source of water-soluble vitamins.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: How are you preparing for COVID-19 disruptions?</title><text>See title</text></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>liamcardenas</author><text>This makes no sense. Why would the body prefer to break down a functional store of energy when has access to a non-functional one?</text><parent_chain><item><author>atarian</author><text>Fat is actually one of the last things the body burns during starvation. Your muscles usually go first.</text></item><item><author>Tade0</author><text>My father had the misfortune of being a civilian in Kuwait during the first gulf war. What I learned from his stories is that the line between normalcy and utter chaos is thinner than one would think.&lt;p&gt;The war itself from the perspective of someone not actively participating is mostly &lt;i&gt;boring&lt;/i&gt; (his words) - you can&amp;#x27;t really go outside, cable is down(no internet back then), not much is happening.&lt;p&gt;But the brief transition period between peace and war is the worst. People desperately trying to stock up in the last minutes, quickly realizing that it&amp;#x27;s pointless to stand in line and pay when there are so many more of them than the supermarket&amp;#x27;s staff.&lt;p&gt;I, for one, &amp;quot;prepared&amp;quot; by weighing 10kg more than a few years ago. I have body fat to spare. My only worry is a good source of water-soluble vitamins.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: How are you preparing for COVID-19 disruptions?</title><text>See title</text></story>