Woke up thinking about this article. There's a related issue. Years ago I had a friend who went on a long fast. Probably over 2 weeks. At the end of the fast he got worried because he lost the will to eat and couldn't start eating again. He went to a counselor/minister who coerced him into starting to eat again. I'm wondering how that fact bears on the kinds of decisionmaking anlyzed in the experiments. The experimenters looked at everyday decisionmaking and the everyday ups and downs of food consumption related to those decisions. What happens when food is out of the equation? How does human decisionmaking change? Lots of cultures have the idea of long fasts and I wonder if those fasts do something to the parts of the brain that the experimenters examined. Could those long fasts induce permanent changes in the brain? It's likely that early humans went without food for much longer periods than we usually do. Would those lean times have resulted in different brain behavior generally?

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