""...the history of man is in large part the chronicle of his quest for food. Hunger, or fear of it, has always played a major role in determining the actions and the attitudes of man.""
"Keys demonstrated that the 36 men who took part in what would come to be called the Minnesota Starvation Experiment exhibited symptoms of depression, irritability, "nervousness," and general emotional instability, with social withdrawal, difficulty concentrating, and loss of any sexual interest."
""...if you went to a movie, you weren't particularly interested in the love scenes, but you noticed every time they ate and what they ate," reported one man."
King Erysichthon's insatiable hunger serves as a metaphor for food noise, an incessant mental preoccupation with food and eating. Human survival depends on obtaining food, and fear of scarcity has shaped behavior across history. Experimental semi-starvation produced marked psychological and behavioral effects: depression, irritability, nervousness, emotional instability, social withdrawal, concentration difficulties, and loss of sexual interest. Prolonged deprivation made food and eating the dominant concern for participants, creating obsessive attention to meals and eating scenes and altering social engagement and cognitive focus.
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