Ansel keys was put on a starvation diet by the University of minneapolis. He couldn't eat hospial food, so his meals were brought to him in a cardboard take up box. The experiment could never be repeated and we ask if that's a good thing.
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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