In 1944, Ancel Keys explored ways to end worldwide hunger during the Minnesota Starvation Experiment. World War II events such as the Holocaust and Siege of Leningrad inspired him to fight hunger. Thirty-six conscientious objectors volunteered to be studied while they starved and recovered over 9 months. Keys explored the effects, while thirty-six men encountered starvation, so he could exchange information about hunger with the world. Keys’s experiment would lead to more study and many anti-hunger organizations in the following
