"If you don't eat, you will starve to death." This sentence sounds like a nasty threat to my ears.

Any such superstition (even to this day, I still think it is a kind of superstition) has always brought
me anxiety and fear. "People will starve to death because they don't eat, so they have to work, and
they have to eat."-In my opinion, there is no more obscure, more intimidating language than this