173: The Psychology of Hunger

Fierce Fatty Podcast

Jun 27 2023 • 1 hr 11 mins

Today we are looking at the Warsaw Ghetto Hunger Study, the Children of HungerWinter, and the Minnesota Starvation Experiment to answer the question what does hunger do to our mental and physical wellbeing? Massive trigger warning: mention of calories, types of food, starvation, eating disorders, self-harm, murder, the holocaust, and death. Although most are brief mentions and not going into details.

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The psychology of hunger By Dr. David Baker and Natacha Keramidas: https://www.apa.org/monitor/2013/10/hunger
The Starvation Study That Changed The World: https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/minnesota-starvation-experiment
Physiology of weight regain: Lessons from the classic Minnesota Starvation Experiment on human body composition regulation https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/obr.13189
The Secret Starvation Study Conducted by Jewish Doctors at Warsaw Ghetto: https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-the-secret-starvation-study-conducted-by-jewish-doctors-at-warsaw-ghetto-1.7965422
The Hunger Disease Study in the Warsaw Ghetto:
https://www.urologichistory.museum/collections/the-scope-of-urology-newsletter/issue-2-summer-2020/hunger-disease-study
This is what hunger does: https://thecorrespondent.com/5379/this-is-what-hunger-does/358445802-e6acda55

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