Opening the “seal” was meant to be a joyful day for all concerned. The meager diet had not helped morale, either. Two years of confinement had divided the crew into bitter, warring factions the tension and drama inside the Bubble actually helped inspire the reality TV series Big Brother. They were indeed, he found, but the strict diet and heavy physical workload also caused more immediate problems, like that they were starving.Īccording to crew member Jane Poynter, who wrote a memoir revealingly titled The Human Experiment: Two Years and Twenty Minutes Inside Biosphere 2, it became accepted practice to lick one’s plate clean after every meal, so as not to miss a single precious calorie. They lost weight so fast that Walford grew concerned that their fat cells were releasing toxins, like pesticides and pollutants, back into their bodies. One man lost 58 pounds, going from a portly 208 to a sleek 150. Not surprisingly, the Terranauts lost weight like sumo wrestlers in a steam room, shedding pounds until their average BMI dropped below twenty for men and women alike (or in scientific terms, “really skinny”). All this was supposed to fuel them through eighty-hour weeks of serious manual labor, including tending the crops, maintaining heavy equipment, pruning back vines that climbed the glass-steel walls, and even donning scuba gear to clean the fish tanks. Only 10 percent of their calories came from fat, and they ate meat only on Sundays.
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