To combat death you don't need much of a life, just one that isn't yet finished.
Herta MüllerTags: death death-and-dying hunger starvation gulag will-to-live
Fire will burn any human body it touches, and starvation will waste it, but stories are not so predictable in their effects.
Laura MillerTags: stories fire starvation
Governments neither help us to get out of poverty and hunger, nor let us die. It is time that we must pick one.
M.F. MoonzajerTags: die poverty hunger help starvation governments
In 1944-1945, Dr Ancel Keys, a specialist in nutrition and the inventor of the K-ration, led a carefully controlled yearlong study of starvation at the University of Minnesota Laboratory of Physiological Hygiene. It was hoped that the results would help relief workers in rehabilitating war refugees and concentration camp victims. The study participants were thirty-two conscientious objectors eager to contribute humanely to the war effort. By the experiment's end, much of their enthusiasm had vanished.
Over a six-month semi-starvation period, they were required to lose an average of twenty-five percent of their body weight." [...] p193
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"...the men exhibited physical symptoms...their movements slowed, they felt weak and cold, their skin was dry, their hair fell out, they had edema. And the psychological changes were dramatic. "[...]
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"The men became apathetic and depressed, and frustrated with their inability to concentrate or perform tasks in their usual manner. Six of the thirty-two were eventually diagnosed with severe "character neurosis," two of them bordering on psychosis. Socially, they ceased to care much about others; they grew intensely selfish and self-absorbed. Personal grooming and hygiene deteriorated, and the men were moody and irritable with one another. The lively and cooperative group spirit that had developed in the three-month control phase of the experiment evaporated. Most participants lost interest in group activities or decisions, saying it was too much trouble to deal with the others; some men became scapegoats or targets of aggression for the rest of the group.
Food - one's own food - became the only thing that mattered. When the men did talk to one another, it was almost always about eating, hunger, weight loss, foods they dreamt of eating. They grew more obsessed with the subject of food, collecting recipes, studying cookbooks, drawing up menus. As time went on, they stretched their meals out longer and longer, sometimes taking two hours to eat small dinners. Keys's research has often been cited often in recent years for this reason: The behavioral changes in the men mirror the actions of present-day dieters, especially of anorexics.
Tags: war diet anorexia depression hunger starvation mental-health refugees weight weight-loss psychosis anorexic war-effort conscientious-objectors medical-experiment
Pierre Janet, a French professor of psychology who became prominent in the early twentieth century, attempted to fully chronicle late- Victorian hysteria in his landmark work The Major Symptoms of Hysteria. His catalogue of symptoms was staggering, and included somnambulism (not sleepwalking as we think of it today, but a sort of amnesiac condition in which the patient functioned in a trance state, or "second state," and later remembered nothing); trances or fits of sleep that could last for days, and in which the patient sometimes appeared to be dead; contractures or other disturbances in the motor functions of the limbs; paralysis of various parts of the body; unexplained loss of the use of a sense such as sight or hearing; loss of speech; and disruptions in eating that could entail eventual refusal of food altogether. Janet's profile was sufficiently descriptive of Mollie Fancher that he mentioned her by name as someone who "seems to have had all possible hysterical accidents and attacks." In the face of such strange and often intractable "attacks," many doctors who treated cases of hysteria in the 1800s developed an ill-concealed exasperation.
Michelle StaceyTags: religion faith miracle psychology spirituality eating-disorder anorexia amnesia spiritualism starvation mental-health mental-illness psychological paralysis fasting dissociative-identity-disorder multiple-personality-disorder trance janet sleepwalking anorexic mpd conversion-disorder fancher mollie-fancher pierre-janet victoria-medecine
I have three things I'd like to say today. First, while you were sleeping last night, 30,000 kids died of starvation or diseases related to malnutrition. Second, most of you don't give a shit. What's worse is that you're more upset with the fact that I said shit than the fact that 30,000 kids died last night.
Tony CampoloTags: morality manners christianity starvation the-church malnutrition
You cannot sensibly expect a starving 'God-fearing' man to honor the 8th commandment.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTags: god religion law survival rules instinct hunger starvation dilemma the-ten-commandments
Starving whilst schooled is like a man’s finding out that his wife is on her periods … a few seconds after he took Viagra.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTags: school sex employment starvation menstruation unemployment periods employee viagra ediucation
With the exception of a gun, starvation is the only thing that is capable of making an insane man lose his mind.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTags: insanity mind hunger starvation gun firearm
Absolute freedom is an illusion. For while an employed man might be free from starvation, he is a slave to his employer's financial aspirations, and, working-hours.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTags: freedom illusion employment starvation employee
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