The Shipwreck Diet
Studies conducted by the U.S. Army in the late 1940s sought to determine the minimum amount of food a person would need to survive if they were shipwrecked on a desert island.
One of the oddities the researchers discovered was that if, for some reason, the shipwrecked person had to choose between steak and water, they should choose the water: "Protein has the effect of drying up the body. Therefore eating a steak on a desert island with little or no water available would probably be worse than eating nothing, depending upon how long rescue took."
One of the oddities the researchers discovered was that if, for some reason, the shipwrecked person had to choose between steak and water, they should choose the water: "Protein has the effect of drying up the body. Therefore eating a steak on a desert island with little or no water available would probably be worse than eating nothing, depending upon how long rescue took."
"Shipwreck Diet: One of eleven Army volunteers who for six weeks will live on biscuits and water at the Metropolitan Hospital, New York City, to determine a human survival ration."
Newsweek - Mar 15, 1948
Waterloo Courier - Nov 16, 1949
Comments
Cigarettes? Obviously from a different era.
Posted by ges on 11/16/20 at 05:29 PM
Probably not those "TRIM" smokes from Saturday.
Posted by KDP on 11/16/20 at 06:00 PM
The comments about the steak was there to keep shipwrecked people from eating their companions.
Posted by Yudith on 11/17/20 at 05:48 AM
Another thing... given the time frame, it definitely isn't him, but the guy in the first photograph does look uncannily like Richard Feynman.
Posted by Richard Bos on 11/28/20 at 09:10 AM
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