This section is from the book "Human Vitality And Efficiency Under Prolonged Restricted Diet", by Francis G.BENEDICT, Walter R. Miles, Paul Roth, And H. Monmouth Smith. Also available from Amazon: Human Vitality and Efficiency Under Prolonged Restricted Diet.
"I feel empty since being on the diet".
"I did not overeat after the experiment, although it was a great temptation to keep filling up all the time. During the last seven days I have taken just two meals a day. I found it necessary to out down. I think I have gained about 3 kg. in weight. I took two doses of salts one week ago to help reduce".
Complains of weariness since going on diet.
"Immediately after meals I am all right".
"Before I went on the diet experiment I was working at a boarding house and had much meat. A diet somewhat more than I was eating while on the experiment would be fine for me".
"To-night I feel all right".
"I feel all right".
"I feel good to-night. This week all right, only I think of eating so much of the time".
"Do not feel so well, but my mind is more peaceful, as I can eat whatever I want and when I want it. If during the experiment it had been impossible to get extra food or to get candy I would have been more comfortable. I could have got on better, I believe, if there had been a real need for reducing because of universal scarcity of food".
Can not eat fruit or jelly of any kind, as it does not agree with him. Was not obliged to eat it but was not given a substitute.
Feels all right, except for lack of food.
"I feel hungry, but otherwise all right".
"I feel fine. Could eat, but otherwise all right".
Harold L. Kimball (Kim).
"The rheumatism which has troubled me a great deal does not bother me now. It seems to be helped very much by the reduced diet".
"Since eating uncontrolled my teeth have begun to ache and the old rheumatism is back with a 'bang.' While on diet I could chew without difficulty. I am very much in favor of the diet for my health. After three days of eating the old troubles began to come back. It was not a case of overeating; I was careful, but I wanted meat and ate it".
"I mind the diet; that is, I noticed the lack of food considerably the first two days. Since then I have felt better. To-night I am all right".
"I have not felt very well during the week. I feel fairly good to-night".
"I feel better to-night than on any day this week".
"I feel quite good, but hungry all the time; always thinking about good things to eat. I eat things now that I did not care for previously and they taste very good, too." January 19, 1918. - "I feel fine; I have felt pretty good all the week." January 27, 1918. - "I had gas in the stomach. Not very anxious to go off the diet. I have some things to eat with me, ready for tomorrow, but as hungry as I have been they do not appeal to me greatly".
"I am always waiting for meal time to come. Otherwise I never felt better".
"Very hungry".
"Hungry." '
Chester D. Snell (Sne).
"Never felt better in my life since I went on the diet".
"Never felt better or more hungry".
"I feel fine to-night. Never felt better in my life. I am even used to being hungry. It doesn't trouble me any more".
"I have been hungry at times".
"Feeling tired and hungry".
"I feel fine. I have been living pretty good. This last week no fault to find with the experiment at all".
"I feel very good since on the diet. No difficulties at all".
"I am well to-night and hungry. This week only the effects of hunger have been felt".
"The diet gives no discomfort. I have felt some hunger, though".
"I am quite tired to-night. Hard basket-ball yesterday. Went to bed at 12h30m a. m.; up at 5 a. m.; was so hungry that I had to get up. I have had some pain in my stomach all the week".
" Difficult to concentrate in study. I could not keep the idea of eating out of my mind. One of the easiest ways to forget eating was to typewrite notes. I missed candy greatly. If I were with people who were all getting low diet and had moderate physical work, as in camp life, it would be much easier".
 
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