Food and National traits:We publish elsewhere in this isue some observations on human behaviour under experimental semistarvation and subsquent rehabilation.Nervous tension,emotional instability and irritability were very marked features observed in all the subjects under study.Humour dried up and the tone of the groupbecame very soberr and serious.Apathy was very marked.except in relation to food and curious forms of acquisitive behaviour were developed.perhaps as a compensation for food deprivation. -During rehabilitation,recovery from apathy was very rapid and gradually social and cultural interests too,reappeared.
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