Originally Posted By: Blast
In 1945, several dozen American conscientious objectors
volunteered to starve themselves under medical supervision. The
goal was to learn how health might be restored after World War II
to the wasted populations of Europe. What the volunteers
endured—and what broke them—sheds light on starvation.

The 17-page report is here.


The summary of the Minnesota Experiment is really interesting. It doesn't talk about the role of food or lack thereof in survival situations, but I was able to gather the following:

  • The human body really wants to eat.
  • Lack of eating is really hard on the body
  • Lack of eating is even harder on the mind
  • The psychological trauma of not eating is frequently permanent

The impact of starvation is pretty major. In the context of this thread, all the more reason to put just a bit more emphasis on food in one's survival priorities.
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