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Almy, who arrived back in California 10 days ago, recalls knitting in a troop mate's room while watching "The Hurt Locker," an Iraq war movie about the addictive qualities of combat adrenaline in the deprivational arena of war.

Kandahar's Combat Knitters use yarn and needles as weapons of self-preservation 2011

The difference is that the deprivational dieters low calorie, low/no protein are wired on starvation, whereas dieters who eat enough protein and calories genuinely feel healthy and do not appear emaciated and frail.

Last gasp of the dark ages of nutrition | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2009

Dr. Danielle Ledoux at Children's Hospital in Boston urges early detection and treatment of cataracts in infants and children to avoid 'deprivational amblyopia' due to significant congenital cataracts.

BellaOnline - The Voice of Women 2010

Just thought I would throw this out there, as I imagine it presents a paradox to anyone who hasn’t done the research on this sort of hypomanic starvation neurosis… how do we reconcile the subjective well being of balanced dieters, with the subjective well being of mildly insane people who starve themselves /eat deprivational diets?

Last gasp of the dark ages of nutrition | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2009