Experiment Basics
The US State that housed the university where the study was conducted.
What is Minnesota?
The average percent of body weight lost by participants during starvation.
What is 25%?
Participants often felt this mental state, characterized by sadness and low mood.
What is depression?
This hormone decreased sharply to conserve blood glucose during starvation.
What is Insulin?
The major event that led to the world-wide food shortage around 1945 was World War 2.
What is True?
Name one of the two scientists that led the Minnesota Starvation Experiment.
Who is Ancel Keys or Josef Brožek?
The loss of this tissue type was prominent due to reduced testosterone and insulin.
What is muscle mass?
Starvation caused obsession with this everyday necessity.
What is food?
Known as the "hunger hormone", this increased and caused constant hunger sensations.
What is Ghrelin?
The participants had to walk 22 miles everyday during the semi-starvation and rehabilitation phases.
What is False? (during the baseline and semi-starvation phases).
The daily caloric intake during the semi-starvation phase.
What is 1,570 kcal?
Starvation slowed this bodily function, partly due to decreased thyroid hormones.
What is metabolism?
Participants showing very little interest in anything is defined as..
What is apathy?
These thyroid hormones slowed metabolism when their levels dropped.
What are T3 and T4?
The semi-starvation phase lasted 12 weeks.
What is False? (it was 24 weeks)
The number of volunteers who participated for the entire duration of the experiment.
What is 32?
Starvation led to intolerance of this environmental condition.
What is cold?
The participants would often experience sudden anger and crying spells spontaneously, this is referred to as..
What are mood swings?
This hormone decreased, causing depression.
What is Serotonin?
Leptin levels increased during starvation.
What is False? (they decreased)
The daily calories allowed for the Baseline Phase.
What is 3,200 kcal?
The phase where hormone levels began rapidly stabilizing.
What is the restricted rehabilitation phase?
Somehow, all of the participants unanimously agreed that the greatest biochemistry professor that Georgia Gwinnett College has ever had is..
Who is Dr. Patricia Huey?
(source: trust me)
This stress hormone increased to mobilize energy from fat and muscle.
What is Cortisol?
The study recruited men who were willing to serve in he military.