Content warning: eating disorders In November 1944, 36 young men opted to participate in a nearly yearlong experiment on the psychological and physiological effects of starvation rather than go to war ...

Max Kampelman was a Jewish kid from the Bronx. Henry Scholberg was born in Darjeeling, India, the son of Methodist missionaries. And Marshall Sutton was an idealistic Quaker who grew up in a rural New ...

Longtime newspaper reporter Richard Chin learned about the University of Minnesota starvation experiment when he was assigned to write a story for the Pioneer Press in 2014 to mark its 70th ...

ST. PAUL – It’s mid-November, which means that many of us soon will be stuffing ourselves silly from Thanksgiving to New Year’s Day. But 70 years ago at this time, three dozen young men assembled in a ...

Put yet another way: the mind may make the body sick, but only the body can help the mind be well again. This is not a new finding. More than seventy years ago, the so-called Minnesota Starvation ...

Is Starvation Mode for Real? As far back as World War II, researchers have been exploring the idea that less the less we eat, the less we burn. In a 1940s study called the Minnesota Starvation ...

In November 1944, 36 men reported to the University of Minnesota as volunteers for a 13-month study under research scientist Ancel Keys. What became known as the Minnesota Starvation Experiment has ...