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 scientific report of the Minnesota Starvation Experiment itself — not an account of the study but its own publication, which is why no ranking is needed to place it (corrected 2026-09-02, card 6NM98H: a trailing “one of the most important studies in the history of nutrition science” was removed). 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 3 knowledge files as at 2026-09-02 (this read 2 until then) (3 references) and 3 companion files (4 references) in this corpus.
Find it on Bookshop.org · Publisher
We may earn a commission on Bookshop.org purchases.