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Letter: Letters: Suicide by food

Published 23 May 1992

From LIZ GREEN

The recent ‘Heaven must wait’ programmes on ITV reminded us that rats
on restricted-calorie diets live to be the equivalent of 150 years old.
Does anyone know why we have such irresistible, though slow-acting, suicide
urges, in the form of hunger pangs?

Liz Green Birmingham

Issue no. 1822 published 23 May 1992

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