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Starvation on 07/05/2012 23:13:11 MDT Print View  A Slow Trek
Towards Starvation: Scott's Polar Tragedy Revisited
ScienceDaily (June 29, 2012) — On the centenary of Scott's ill-
fated Terra Nova expedition to the South Pole, a study to be
presented at the Society for Experimental Biology meeting on
July 1 has shown that Scott's men starved to death because they
were consuming far too few calories to fuel their daily
exertion.  The researchers, environmental physiologist Dr Lewis
Halsey of the University of Roehampton and polar explorer and
physician Dr Mike Stroud, examined the voyage in light of
today's knowledge of nutrition and how our bodies respond to
extreme exercise, cold, and high altitude. They determined that
their rations, which consisted of biscuits, pemmican, butter,
sugar, chocolate, cereals and raisins, an