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October 29, 2023 32 mins

If you have a restrictive eating disorder then you need to know about the Minnesota Starvation Experiment and its findings. This experiment, carried out during the Second World War, is the most important evidence we have for the effects of hunger and starvation on a person and what happens as they 'refeed' and rehabilitate back to health.

This episode is part one of two on this topic and this post includes information about what the experiment involved and some of the key findings.

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Addicted to Energy Deficit

Aiming for Overshoot

 

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