About Treated Turquoise. Note: There is very little hard, natural gem quality turquoise on the market. Hence, in most cases, some sort of hardening treatment of this ancient, relatively soft mineral is needed ... especially for strung beads to help prevent breakage during the drilling and tumble polishing processes.
So if you begin to starve yourself for 2 days you will not lose much weight.. it won't be as dramatic as you think it would be. Try cleaning your colon it is more effective at dropping unwanted pounds from the fecal matter, gas and toxins that have accumulated within your intestines.
Update 2: I won't DIE if I starve myself for a few days. I've done it before and I've lost and I actually KEPT the weight off but I never actually weighed myself. So I was curious to know approximately how much weight I could potentially lose.