During the long starvation phase, keys began to lose some of his subjects. One man went into 17 different soda fountains and gulped down a milk shake at each one. After that, we could not go out without a buddy. And if we had a girl friend, we could bring the girl friend in,. The doctors would interview the girl and go cay her. So when we were on a day, she'd be your body. Finally, after six months of starvation, recovery, on the final day when you were able to finally break what do you remember? What you did?"
In the final year of the Second World War, 36 men spent a year in a dingy set of rooms under the University of Minnesota football stadium. They were part of an experiment none of them would ever forget. What happened in the Department of Physiological Hygiene? Revisionist History uncovers a forgotten box of interviews in the archives of the Library of Congress.
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