{"id":1641,"date":"2009-04-23T01:51:52","date_gmt":"2009-04-22T23:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=1641"},"modified":"2015-02-13T08:35:11","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T13:35:11","slug":"1000-calories-day-torture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/1000-calories-day-torture\/","title":{"rendered":"1,000 Calories a Day is Torture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2009\/04\/17\/bush-torture-memos-commer_n_188190.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Literally&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In an effort to rationalize the use of dietary manipulation on detainees, Bush administration officials turned to Slim Fast and Jenny Craig.<\/p>\n<p>In a footnote to a May 10, 2005, memorandum from the Office of Legal Council, the Bush attorney general&#8217;s office argued that restricting the caloric intake of terrorist suspects to 1000 calories a day was medically safe because people in the United States were dieting along those lines voluntarily.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While detainees subject to dietary manipulation are obviously situated differently from individuals who voluntarily engage in commercial weight-loss programs, we note that widely available commercial weight-loss programs in the United States employ diets of 1000 kcal\/day for sustained periods of weeks or longer without requiring medical supervision,&#8221; read the footnote. &#8220;While we do not equate commercial weight loss programs and this interrogation technique, the fact that these calorie levels are used in the weight-loss programs, in our view, is instructive in evaluating the medical safety of the interrogation technique.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more-->As disgusting as this is, the\u00a0equation of severe food deprivation with voluntary commercial diet programs is also spot on.\u00a0 While I don&#8217;t doubt the parallel was drawn to trivialize the\u00a0depravity of the act, no one reading\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/jn.nutrition.org\/content\/135\/6\/1347.full\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this description of\u00a0Ancel Key&#8217;s classic &#8220;Minnesota Experiment&#8221;<\/a> can doubt the physical and psychological damage that goes hand-in-hand with prolonged, low calorie intake.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Medically safe&#8221; is relative.\u00a0 If you read the linked report, it&#8217;s obvious Keys&#8217; subjects were medically safe too.\u00a0 Nonetheless, they still suffered.\u00a0\u00a0Extreme dietary restriction is a terrible way to try and lose weight.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While\u00a0very low calorie dieting might\u00a0be less physically punishing &#8211; in the short term &#8211;\u00a0for someone with a lot of excess fat to lose, there are still detrimental changes &#8211; to both metabolic rate and lean body mass &#8211; that work against the long term success of such an approach.\u00a0\u00a0 Don&#8217;t go there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Literally&#8230; In an effort to rationalize the use of dietary manipulation on detainees, Bush administration officials turned to Slim Fast and Jenny Craig. In a footnote to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,14,28,29],"tags":[36,132,1118,1726,1867],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1641"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8410,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1641\/revisions\/8410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}