Comments on: Starving for Answers

By: JarvisLoop

JarvisLoop — Sun, 28 Jun 2020 02:54:06 +0000

I am back.

By: JarvisLoop

JarvisLoop — Sat, 26 Oct 2019 17:27:22 +0000

I know that I read this when it first appeared.

Why didn’t I leave a comment?

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 19 Jun 2017 09:00:59 +0000

Good read

By: tigris

tigris — Sun, 11 Jun 2017 18:32:33 +0000

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By: James Matthews

James Matthews — Tue, 18 Apr 2017 22:06:00 +0000

There are few men more courageous than COs!

By: Pole Vault 72

Pole Vault 72 — Mon, 03 Apr 2017 16:37:42 +0000

@dugan – As i recall from my old biochemistry classes, the deaths during the refeeding of the severely malnourished was related to Phosphate depletion. ATP (Adenosine Triphosphate) the “energy currency” for cells is how cells store and distribute energy intracellularly. If you are making cars faster than the rubber can be supplied for tire production things won’t go well.

By: Dugan

Dugan — Sat, 10 Dec 2016 03:54:53 +0000

Great article! I was of the mis-understanding that C rations (about 2,000 calories) were for civilians who had appropriate housing and that K rations were “Kombat” rations (about 3,000 calories) designed for soldiers living outdoors. In 1979 I had a conversation with a dietician who was with the Army when the concentration camps were liberated. She was still distressed by the number of people they killed by feeding them to fast. Feeding sent many into congestive heart failure. She also mentioned that once a person is severely malnourished no amount of nutrition will be effective in restoring health….hence the mortality of anorexia nervosa patients despite treatment.

By: Ard Ri

Ard Ri — Wed, 07 Dec 2016 11:10:49 +0000

DAMN!

By: papashivo

papashivo — Mon, 05 Dec 2016 16:23:41 +0000

Dulcet tones Jake, keep being Damn Interesting, very excellent as always.

By: jeffco

jeffco — Sun, 04 Dec 2016 00:53:23 +0000

Unfortunately the Nazi doctors’ experiments on POWs and interned Jews also represent some of the only useful data on other subjects of scientific interest like effects of altitude and decompression on human subjects. And some of the studies conducted here on African American populations in the South in the name of Eugenics are equally appalling. I often wonder if there are still experiments being carried out on people now, who are completely oblivious. It surfaced some years ago that the military had done experiments in the south St Louis area in the 50’s, in which non-descript boxes on utility poles were placed to emit radioactive cadmium (I think it was) so that they could clandestinely model the disbursement of radioactive fallout through urban areas. Years later those same areas showed alarmingly disproportionate ratios of Leukemia, birth defects, and certain cancers among people who lived there when young.