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From Revisionist History: The Starvation Experiment
The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos
The Minnesota Starvation Experiment
The Minnesota Starvation experiment began in 1944. The men were given six slices of bread and a potato every day until they lost weight. Nearly 60 years have passed since the experiment ended. Do you remember what your lowest weight got down to? 134, I believe. What was sort of your standard weight entering? 180. They standardized me down to 180 before the real experiment began. So I got down to 134. And their memories are precise. In fact, it seems like they've been reliving the long year between the fall of 1944 and the fall of 1945 ever since.
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