"Food Technology, Food Psychology: Ancel Keys and the World War II Development of the K Ration": A talk with Sarah W. Tracy November 19, 2008

Sarah W. Tracy is Director of the Medical Humanities Program in the Honors College at the University of Oklahoma. Prof. Tracy examines Ancel Keys's role in developing the K Ration; it is part of a larger biography of Keys that places his 70-year career in the evolving context of the human and biomedical sciences. In helping to create the Army's first thoroughly modern combat ration, Keys introduced a holistic food-engineering standard for subsistence meals that embraced both food (and advertising) psychology and food technology.

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