Book
Keys A, Brožek J, Henschel A, Mickelsen O, Taylor HL. The Biology of Human Starvation (2 vols). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press; 1950.
Why we cite it
The definitive scientific account of the Minnesota Starvation Experiment — one of the most important studies in the history of nutrition science. The two-volume, 1,385-page work documents in exhaustive detail the physiological, metabolic, and psychological effects of prolonged caloric restriction and subsequent refeeding in 36 healthy men. Semantic Scholar fragments the book across multiple entries (at least ~414 combined citations), but the true citation count is far higher — the experiment's findings have been cited thousands of times across nutrition, metabolism, eating disorder, and weight regulation research. Referenced by 2 k-files (3 references) and 3 companion files (4 references) in this corpus.
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