Food deprivation
As food deprivation is defined as the deliberate withholding of food of another person due to various motives, so that it is hungry or starved .
Deprivation of food as torture or punishment
As early as the Middle Ages , criminals were locked up as punishment in the so-called hunger tower , where they slowly and painfully died. The Inquisition also used hunger as leverage for forced confessions . In ancient times, criminals were sentenced to death by starvation . In the prisons of many dictatorships , prisoners were (and are) made compliant through the deprivation of food and thus through hunger, in order to be able to indoctrinate them better afterwards . Statements were sometimes blackmailed through permanent hunger.
Especially in the concentration camps in the era of National Socialism and the Soviet Gulag under Stalin to have been prisoners deliberately and systematically given inadequate food rations. The constant hunger , along with the harsh physical labor , weakened the prisoners and made them vulnerable to various diseases . Millions of prisoners died as a result.
consequences
If a person does not get any more food, his body first uses all available reserves, first the fat cells are broken down, then the muscle cells. At the same time, the body loses water, so that body weight decreases by around one kilogram per day. It can be heart rhythm disturbances come. If all body reserves are used up, the body can no longer compensate for the protein deficiency and hunger edema forms . After about 30 days or when a person of normal weight has lost about 40% of his body weight, there is an acute danger to life.
See also
Web links
- Food deprivation - when the body breaks down on itself. Article in the health magazine Puls on SRF 1
Individual evidence
- ↑ "We should humiliate them". In: Der Spiegel , August 30, 2004. Retrieved November 5, 2016.
- ↑ Erik Kraatz: The influence of experience on the factual determination of the facts: On "criminal procedural" prima facie evidence. Walter de Gruyter, 2011, p. 40 (on books.google.de )
- ↑ Christoph Rind: Food withdrawal - what happens? In: Hamburger Abendblatt , February 14, 2008. Retrieved November 5, 2016.