owlsbooks Chapter 2232 Hunger Experiment (Please give me a monthly ticket!!! Please subscribe!!! Please suppor
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Chapter 2232 Hunger Experiment (Please give me a monthly ticket!!! Please subscribe!!! Please support!!!)
Gel was eating heartily and even wondered why he hadn't thought about eating before. It was strange. After all, revenge and eating are two different things. Some people would do anything for revenge, but no one would go on a hunger strike for revenge, right? This is strange, isn't it? After all, only when you are full can you have strength!
Then it suddenly occurred to Ger that it seemed like he hadn't felt hungry for a long time.
Hunger tormented Ger until he killed the god Lapu.
At that time, Gel even thought that hunger was definitely the most unbearable thing in the world, a hundred times more terrible than hell!
How terrible is hunger? We have always heard that people can live for one minute without oxygen, three days without water, and 1 days with only water. Those who say this must have never been hungry.
Only those who have truly experienced hunger will know that it is more terrifying than death!
You know, in Western mythology, famine is the messenger of doom in the Book of Revelation and one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
If we really have to cite an event to prove this point, then an experiment that took place during World War II can undoubtedly scientifically prove how terrible hunger is!
The incident happened on November 1944, 11. Anyone who has a little understanding of Western culture knows that many Americans believe in Christianity, and the influence of Christianity on them can be described as deep-rooted. The protagonists participating in the experiment are a group of such young people. Even among Christians, there are many different factions within Christianity, and the faction they believe in is the Peace Church, which is the faction in Christianity that is most resistant to violence. It is such a group of people who participated in this experiment that we now think is extremely inhumane. The content of the experiment is to let them simulate the living conditions of European refugees. The experimental location is the corridor of the football field of the University of Minnesota. The 19 subjects all took the initiative to participate in this experiment. There are no windows in the corridor. There are two rows of wooden beds on the left and right sides, and a walkway in the middle. At the end of the walkway is the shower room, which has several toilets and no cover. This is where they need to live in the next twelve months. This is the famous Minnesota experiment.
During World War II, going to the battlefield as an obligation of American citizens was imposed on all men, but the beliefs of the young people who participated in the experiment did not allow them to go to the battlefield to kill the enemy. They refused to take up guns and refused to kill the enemy. All kinds of rumors attacked them, such as cowards, cowards, traitors, etc. At this time, the University of Minnesota posted an experimental recruitment poster, which read: "Are you willing to starve so that others can eat better?"
The purpose of this experiment is to simulate the famine on the battlefield, so that the scientists participating in the experiment can have a deeper understanding of hunger, so that they can support the war on the front line to a certain extent. At the same time, this experiment is not in vain, and those who participate in the experiment can be exempted from military service.
In just one week, more than 36 people signed up for the experiment for various purposes, but the experiment only needed 36 people. After layers of screening, young men were selected to participate in the experiment. They were the believers of the peaceful faction of Christianity we mentioned earlier. They refused to go to the battlefield to kill the enemy. After being insulted and puzzled by others, they decided to use this method to prove their patriotism. When they walked into the laboratory, they were very determined, just like the soldiers on the battlefield.
At the beginning of the experiment, each of them could eat 3200 calories of food per day, which is similar to the 3000 calories we consume per day today. Except for the strict sleep schedule and the fact that everyone was fumigated when one person went to the toilet, everything else was normal. They were also able to leave the laboratory and hang out with college students, but this was only the first three months of adaptation.
In February 1945, the adaptation period ended, and after meeting the expectations of Professor Case, the leader of the experiment, the experiment officially began. The amount of food they were rationed was suddenly reduced, and each person only had a few pieces of bread, a few potatoes, a small plate of jelly and jam, and a small cup of milk, with a total of 2 calories. The minimum daily energy intake given by the United Nations for adults is now 1600 calories.
They would eat a small meal at 35 a.m. and 1.1 p.m. from Monday to Saturday, and a large meal at 1600:3000 p.m. on Sunday. In addition to reducing intake, they also needed to increase consumption. Professor Case stipulated that they needed to run at least kilometers a week and lose at least kilograms of weight. If they did not lose enough weight, they had to go back to the treadmill and continue running. They consumed calories and burned calories a day. The subjects in this environment were similar to the famine that occurred on the battlefield.
Gradually, these volunteers began to experience some changes, including physiological and psychological changes. In terms of physiology, soon after the starvation experiment officially began, all volunteers participating in the experiment began to experience a decrease in strength and mental fatigue. The volunteers' reactions began to become slow, their alertness began to decrease, and they began to lose focus on thinking about things. As the experiment continued, the volunteers continued to experience a series of physical changes, including gastrointestinal discomfort, lack of sleep, dizziness, headaches, overreaction to changes in light and sound, edema, hair loss, fear of cold, blurred vision, persistent tinnitus, numbness in hands and feet, etc.
The skin of these hungry volunteers became rougher, but the strangest change in appearance was their eyes. Due to the reduction in blood supply, the whites of everyone's eyes began to become "like brand new white porcelain". This abnormal white color looked very scary at night, and they looked more and more like skeletons. Their body temperature began to drop generally, blood volume decreased by 10%, and the static heart rate also dropped from an average of 55 beats/minute before the experiment to 35 beats/minute. We all know a basic truth that dieting will lead to a decrease in basal metabolic rate. This view was largely discovered and fully confirmed through this experiment. The experimenters measured and found that the basal metabolic rate of the volunteers decreased by an average of more than 40%.
In terms of emotions and personality, Professor Case also considered that the hunger test is a great test of psychological endurance and will. Therefore, the selection of volunteers is very strict. The mental state of those selected is generally better than that of ordinary people. However, even those who are completely mentally healthy began to have psychological problems during the experiment. Most volunteers became depressed soon after the hunger test began. 20% of them were so depressed that their daily lives were affected. Some people showed drastic mood swings, with high spirits and then suddenly falling to the bottom, just like bipolar disorder.
At this time, something unexpected but reasonable happened. On this day, two young men who participated in the experiment suddenly fought with the members of the school football team. They rushed up and punched each other just because the other party cursed them. You know, they are from the peace faction, and the word fighting hardly exists in their dictionary, but now they just went up to fight with each other because the other party cursed them. They began to become sensitive and irritable. Even in the psychological experimental evaluation before the experiment, they were all people with calm personalities, but these volunteers still showed anxiety, biting their nails, smoking excessively, and losing interest in everything. They began to no longer pay attention to personal hygiene and became unwilling to interact with others.
The experimenters found that some volunteers would stare at a photo of food for two hours without moving. At this time, eating has become a sacred ritual for them. They treat food like gold. When eating, even if a little crumb falls into the crack of the table, they will pick it out and eat it; some people will dilute the food with water to make themselves feel like they have eaten a little more food; others will chew the food in their mouths for a long time when eating, as if they want to eat all the flavors in the food, and finally swallow the food with extreme enjoyment. Later, they also found ways to relieve hunger. Some people began to chew gum crazily, and some people ran to the coffee shop all day and drank 35 cups of coffee a day. Because both gum and coffee contain trace amounts of sugar, the professor made a new rule, stipulating that each person is only allowed to drink 9 cups of coffee and eat 2 packs of gum a day.
Professor Case was like an extremely sophisticated machine. While ensuring that the subjects would not starve to death, he strictly controlled them and kept them hungry. Gradually, their minds became more and more extreme and abnormal. First, a 24-year-old volunteer began to have neurological abnormalities due to a long period of lack of food. He always dreamed at night that he was eating human flesh. Then one day he sneaked out of school, ran to a nearby town, rushed into an ice cream shop, and began to eat ice cream and milkshakes crazily. When Dr. Case found him and questioned him, he threatened to kill Dr. Case and commit suicide. The experiment of this volunteer was obviously unable to proceed. He was sent to the mental hospital affiliated with the University of Minnesota, where he received treatment and resumed a normal diet. He was the first to be expelled. After that, another volunteer began to be unable to urinate, whether due to hunger or other reasons. This symptom lasted for several days, and eventually he began to urinate blood. After being sent to the hospital, the doctor diagnosed him with urinary complications. The occurrence of the disease meant that the data was meaningless, and Case ended the experiment of this volunteer ahead of schedule.
At the same time, the other volunteers were still suffering from the pain of hunger. Everyone felt that they were not far from going crazy. They felt desperate and depressed, and their mental state was manic and depressed. But only half of the experiment was over. Later, Professor Case observed that these volunteers would run to the restaurant in groups. They did not eat, but watched others eat, and giggled while watching. They would also go to the dessert shop to buy various snacks and distribute them to children on the roadside. They would watch them eat and gnaw their fingers and giggle. They began to lose their minds and could not concentrate. They were forgetful about everything they did. At this time, they were so hungry that their faces drooped, their eye sockets were sunken, their eyeballs were as pale as a piece of paper, their thighs were swollen, and their abdomens collapsed. Walking or even sitting became heavy physical labor for them. But even at this time, the 35-kilometer long-distance running every week continued. They had lost weight from 130-140 kilograms to 90 kilograms. In addition to long-distance running, they stopped almost all activities except eating, and everyone lived like a walking corpse. In the end, the experiment ended. Only 36 out of 32 people finally persisted. They were no longer restricted in diet and began to overeat like they were possessed by evil spirits. They began to eat everything they could eat crazily. The day after the experiment, some people were sent to the hospital for gastric lavage. They did not eat because they were hungry, but simply ate for the sake of eating. Even in the three months after the end of the experiment, most people's fat reached 1.4 times that before the experiment, but their anxiety and hallucinations did not disappear in the subsequent year, and some people even had sequelae for more than three years. The most influential, the first and last systematic experiment on dieting people in human history confirmed that long-term dieting would have serious physical and psychological effects. Because the experiment seemed extremely cruel and seriously violated ethics and morality, such experiments will be sealed forever. After the war ended in 1945, Professor Keyes' research results were printed into a booklet and distributed to rescue workers in Europe and Asia. At that time, the war had just ended and famine was spreading around the world. Some people said that this experiment was a great hunger experiment and that they were heroes who saved millions of lives with the belief in peace. But in fact, many stories brought back by rescue workers from the front line are even more horrific than this, and we really can't describe them.
In fact, this level of hunger is nothing, because real famine is much more terrible than you imagine! Perhaps after watching this experiment, you will be more touched when you read the history books about starving people who were eating their own children. This is not because historians are stingy with words, but only those who have truly seen and experienced famine can understand how terrible famine is.
The kind of hunger that makes people so hungry that they even eat people is rare in modern society. Geer has seen that the number of people in the tribe is decreasing, not all of them starved to death, but most of them were killed and eaten!
The planet where Gel lives is also strongly hostile to cannibalism.
But hunger destroyed everything.
Gel had eaten too... Of course, most of the time, he was still tortured by hunger.
Just a second before picking up the Black Death Sword, Gel was still being tortured, but when he got the Black Death Sword, all the pain and fatigue in his body disappeared!
To the extent that all along, Gel had ignored his body's desire in this regard... But was this really Gel's subconscious neglect?