Each menu contained approximately 1200 calories and consisted of: One canned meat course One canned fruit or cake One B unit can that contained crackers and either a cocoa beverage or candy One canned spread (peanut butter, jam or cheese spread) Accessory Packet containing: instant coffee cream substitute sugar salt chewing gum matches toilet paper cigarettes Soldiers opened the cans with the P38 can opener and though the contents were typically eaten unheated, the food could be warmed using a fuel tablet
Fish and Wildlife Service watch from helicopters and occasionally stop the race if a sea turtle or manatee is spotted near the course
And though, of course, it grew worse as ones body aged, was it not a sign that this was NOT the natural order of things, if ones heart sickened at the discomfort and dirt and scarcity, the interminable winters, the stickiness of ones socks, the lifts that never worked, the cold water, the gritty soap, the cigarettes that came to pieces, the food with its strange evil tastes
Around this time, two cardiologists, Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenman, claimed to find a causal relationship between personality and coronary heart disease (CHD)