Ep. 16 The Famine Response: What the Minnesota Starvation Study Taught Us About Dieting
Have you ever felt like a "failure" for not sticking to a diet?
In 1944, a group of healthy men volunteered for a study at the University of Minnesota to understand the impact of famine. What they discovered explains exactly why dieting feels like a constant battle with your own brain.
In this episode we break down:
The Study: Why cutting calories in half caused the volunteers to become obsessed with food, irritable, and socially withdrawn.
The Biology of Binging: Why hunger and weight regain can be successful survival mechanisms, not personality flaws.
The Food Noise: How chronic restriction…
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