âAlternative medicine,â so-called âcomplementary and alternative medicineâ (CAM), or, as itâs become fashionable to call it, âintegrative medicineâ is a set of medical practices that are far more based on belief than science.
Although most crocodiles eat about 50 meals a year, they can survive a whole year, and sometimes even two or three years, without eating anything.
The German cockroach is a general feeder, but is particularly attracted to fermented foods and beverage residues (e.g., beer spills). If water is present, adults can live about a month without food, but young nymphs will die of starvation within 10 days. Without food or water, the adults die in less than two weeks.