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From: S. maltophilia	10/18/2025 3:01:16 PM
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....Yet numerous experts warned that not all consequences of famine can be undone. “People don’t realize that one doesn’t just recover from starvation,” Dana Simmons, a historian and the author of “ On Hunger: Violence and Craving in America, from Starvation to Ozempic,” said. For the severely malnourished, simply starting to eat normal meals again can cause sickness—even death. And survivors of starvation are at risk of chronic diseases and mental-health conditions for decades after they regain access to food. “You’ve stunted a generation,” Nathaniel Raymond, the director of the Humanitarian Research Lab at Yale, told me. Ruth Gibson, a scholar at Stanford’s Center for Innovation in Global Health, spoke in even starker terms. “Can this be reversed?” she said. “The answer is, it can’t be.” Much of what we know about the toll of starvation comes from the Warsaw Ghetto, where the Nazis... newyorker.com archive.ph pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov That won't be happening in Gaza

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