After the three months of initial rigor, while they stabilized their weight, the severe calory restrictions kicked in. Everyone now got just two meals a day, cabbage, potatoes, bread slices rudabagas and occasional treats of macaronian cheese. Coffee was one of the few indulgences they were allowed so they drank it to excess, 12, 18 cups a day. They chewed enormous amounts of bubble gum. One of the men took a date to see to have and have not, starring humphrey bogart and lorn bacall. "You ouldn't take anything from anybody, would you? You're awful good, and i wouldn't kow
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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