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> If you do more work than you take in calories, you will eventually die of that work.

No, you'll die of starvation. If you're not taking in sufficient nutrients, you'll die even if you do no work at all.

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Your body is doing work through basal metabolism even while sitting idle. Starving to death and being overworked to death are basically the same thing.

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