Should kidneys malfunction, the buildup of urea creates a life-threatening danger.
But sugar, unlike fat, poses no life-threatening danger except to diabetics.
The problems, they say, ranged from life-threatening dangers to what seemed idle efforts at humiliation.
To up the ante and distinguish himself from the pack, he has had to add an element to his repertory - life-threatening danger.
While some stunts clearly involved genuine life-threatening danger should anything have gone wrong, the risk of injury in others was open to question.
At its most basic level, stress is a survival mechanism, an evolutionary adaptation to a world filled with life-threatening dangers.
Worse yet, the passengers could not be evacuated from the vessel without life-threatening danger.
But dehydration is a very real and life-threatening danger after a calamity.
Forced into hiding with her father, she is subjected to life-threatening danger, numbing isolation and fear.
But her days of life-threatening danger were now at an end.