Sentences with phrase «if it fears starvation»
If it fears starvation, your body holds on to fat.
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Anorexics may suffer from rapid starvation if they follow a ketogenic diet, because they already limit their calorie consumption and have an extreme fear of eating fat, which a ketogenic diet has lots of.
The release of epinephrine that occurs during fear can be intense enough to cause undue stress such that if the heart muscle were borderline «starved» of oxygen, the increased heart activity due to the epinephrine could cause enough oxygen starvation to cause a heart attack.