Re: The original article is called "The Biology of Human Starvation"

well, if you do get and read the whole thing, please let us know if much is said of WHAT they ate. Huge piece missing there for me: not that I'm so fasinated by the talk of food, but rather that I think it's central to the whole experiemwent.

I strongly doubt (as per usual in the world of Science, Nutrition and such experiemnts, and esp. given the time) that they had much understanding of nutrition.

(sidenote and a *for example* My grandmother was a dietician who worked in a hospital. She later on suffered an unknown and long illness, and died of, according to my grandfather, "constipation". I was about 12 and thought it sort of funny in a puzzled way. I saw her in the hospital just prior to this, and she was a skeleton. So, constipation can exist, even in the starving. So many ways to suffer in this world)

Anyway, these men were probably quite literally starving, (esp as they had not exactly chosen to fast, but were being deprived: a strong mind control, that) and suffering a whole host of other effects, such as prisoners might suffer. I'm not sure there is as much value in the "study" as some seem to believe. the author of this review sounds enchanted.

But I grant you, it has a macabre sort of fascination.

Right. right. -- i said I was going for a bath.

I am now,

take care Mouse,

(i'm guessing you are not now fasting, but maybe doing the reduced caloric thing?)

Chiron