Meals Rejected by Ethiopians
Well that should cut down on the use of toilet paper for the month.
The test is already flawed IMO.....
A research study at the US Army Institute of Environmental Medicine in Natick, MA is being conducted to determine the effects of eating the Meal, Ready-to-Eat (MRE) military ration on gut health. To be eligible, you must:
- Be 18-62 years old.
- Be willing to eat and drink only MRE items for 21 consecutive days.
- Not be trying to lose weight.
- Be willing to give blood, urine and fecal samples.
- Not have a history of gastrointestinal problems.
- Meet additional screening criteria.
Study participation will last 6 weeks. You will be asked to continue eating your normal diet for 31 d or to eat nothing but MREs for 21 d and then your normal diet for 10 d.
During the study you will visit our lab in Natick, MA for ~3 hours 4 separate times. We will also meet with you at our lab or at your home/place of work for 30-60 min at least 3 days/week during the study.
Data collection will include questionnaires, and blood, urine and fecal samples. Volunteers will be compensated up to $200 for completing the study. If interested contact Nick at nicholes.j.armstrong.civ@mail.mil.
Only folks near Natick MA will be tested. Different bugs in the guts of testers from all over the USA would be better than just one locality.
Just assign GI’s to test their GI’s versus this anybody wanna volunteer crap....
Having some MREs around is not a bad idea.
ummm,.....they have had troops in the fields eating mre’s for months to years, and they need this study?
mre’s require supplements with fiber, magnesium, vit c, and other supplements. the higher salt content is good for troops doing physical work, but too much salt and not enough water will give you kidney stones.
Eat MREs for 21 days = Don’t crap for 30!
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Do they still have cornflake bars?
Let Congress try it first or Moochelle. They’ve earned the honor, ya think?
Can’t get enough volunteers in the military???
yep, been there, done that.
No ham and mofos?
But are they halal?
Some people must be exaggerating the digestive problems caused by MREs. As I mentioned I once purchased a total of 144 complete MREs for a pittance. I was thinking that I probably ate one a week but it must have been more than that as I don’t think they lasted more than a year as that is the amount of time before I took a job which included all meals.
I never recall that I had any problems with them at all. Some were not that good but some were very good.
Major constipation.
Why don’t they just go up to the Portsmouth Naval Penitentiary and look for volnteers. Ofter prisoners time off the senrence for participating.
Meals Refusing to Exit?
Been there, done that, don’t fit into the T-shirt anymore.
Had the MRE Spaghetti and Meatballs twice a day for eleven days in a row once. We'd open a sealed box of MREs, it'd have NOTHING but S&Mballs.
We called our higher, told them if the next truck delivery contained nothing but S&Ms, we'd kill and eat the driver. The next delivery was okay; somebody checked and made sure.