The 4 most dangerous and strange experiment with food in the history of mankind
It is now for experiments, mainly scientists use lab rats, and the results of most experiments can predict in advance, starting from the already known data. Previously explored risked their own lives or the lives of others, and all in order to find out, for example, could you eat one rice or what would happen if all the time to drink coffee or tea?
About four of the most bizarre and dangerous experiments of food known to history, we want to tell you.
In the middle of the last century, one American company engaged in the production of cereal for Breakfast, I asked the staff at the University of Massachusetts to find out how their product behaves inside the body. To observe the digestive process easier, the researchers decided to add a little cereal in iron and calcium, but not simple, and radioactive!
In experiment took part about 70 orphans with various serious diseases. By the end of the study their condition has deteriorated significantly, because most of the developed radiation sickness...
There were other children in the U.S. affected by the actions of unscrupulous scientists. For example, once the pupils of a boarding school for cerebral palsy patients were given irradiated milk, again, all for the sake of science!
One researcher at the University of Chicago Fredric Helsel decided to see what would happen if you only eat inedible items. The purpose of men was to find out how many calories he gets from a meal, and how quickly it can be displayed by the body.
Long time diet Helsel consisted of feathers, various ropes, corn cobs, metal balls and other things. In the study, the guy said that most quickly from the body out a piece of rope — it took him "only" an hour and a half! But most of all, Fredrik loved surgical cotton wool!
Over time this diet guy has reached a state of extreme exhaustion and only miraculously survived. But to become a scientist Helsel and failed, because the deficiency of minerals in the body affect his success in education.
Physician Max Moszkowski, so we decided to put it on a dangerous experiment. For 200 days he ate only one rice, to dispel or confirm the conjecture that such supply occurs the disease beriberi, in other words, avitaminosis B1.
The doctor stopped the experiment when the pain in the heart, and cramps become unbearable. From the effects of mono-Max Moszkowski couldn't shake for about 20 years, because this power he caused great harm to the heart.
But the "mono-diet" traveler Vilhjalmur of Stefansson at the time consisted of meat and fat, most often of seals. To them, the man occasionally added berries or fish — one of the few foods that you could get while traveling. While Stefansson noted that feels great, though slightly thin. But upon returning home, the man began to have serious health problems...
At first it was normal diarrhea, but every day the condition of Stefansson was getting worse. Soon the traveler guessed that the culprit of cooked lean meat, from which he managed to break the habit. When the man began to eat the fat and entrails of animals, his condition immediately improved.
At the end of the XVIII century Swedish king Gustav III ordered to determine what is more harmful than tea or coffee. For this, the Emperor pardoned two death row twin with the condition that the end of life they will regularly drink a few cups of these drinks per day, one to tea, the other coffee.
The experiment concluded that the two brothers survived and the doctors who look after them, and the king Gustav. "Failed" study of a man who was told to drink tea, he died first at the age of 83 years.
Well, we guessed that the coffee will prevail in this matter, but this drink has both positive and negative characteristics. And you need to know about them.
And what experiment with food, would you agree? For the sake of science! Well, or for money...
Keywords: Diet | Food | Nutrition | Food scientists | Experiment