Sentences with phrase «during a famine»

Joseph bought low during the famine in Egypt on behalf of the Pharaoh.

The following year was due to be a Sabbath year and those living in Israel hadn't been able to store up enough food during the famine to last them until when they'd next have a harvest.

During the 20th century, an estimated 70 million people died from famines across the world, of whom fully 30 million died during the famine of 1958 - 61 in China.

Among 983 people gestated during the famine years, 31.2 percent had hyperglycemia and 11.2 percent had type 2 diabetes.

That kicked people off their land for their religion; that was transporting food from Ireland to England during the famine while people starved to death in Ireland.

The collection for the saints of Judea during the famine (2 Cor.

Even as construction of canals and dams were shown as the means to water the lands and provide livelihood to dalits during the famine, Victor McCauley, a Lutheran missionary admits that it was also to remove the «fear» or the sense of awe from the minds of people at the nature.36

And if the pueblos were abandoned during a famine, why would the inhabitants leave behind bushels of burned corn?

The finding challenges the long - held assumption that animals only resort to cannibalism during famine.

«Women survive crises better than men: Newborn girls are hardier than newborn boys during famines, epidemics.»

Studying the Dutch famine of 1945, when the German army cut off food supplies to western Holland, researchers found that people born to mothers who were pregnant during the famine were more likely to be obese as adults.

By studying the skeletons of farmers, peasants, monks, and nobles, paleopathologists hope to find out what diseases killed people from medieval times until the present — and how their overall health fluctuated during famine, war, climate change, and other challenges.

Girls born during the famine that struck Ukraine in 1933, for example, lived to 10.85, and boys to 7.3 — a 50 percent difference.

Viewed this way, humans can be considered to have lost two genes — one affecting uricase and the other affecting the ability to produce vitamin C — whose absence helped our ancestors during famine but, in today's world, may be increasing our risk for obesity and diabetes.

That's great news during a famine, but not so hot during times of plenty.

I also wondered about the fact that there are women who have breastfed just fine during famines.

When mammals go into hibernation, there thyroid levels drop, which slows down their metabolism so they can survive during a famine.

There are other evolutionary indicators of the optimal diet — mammalian diets, for instance, and the evolutionary imperative to function well during a famine — which, as readers of our book, we also use to determine the Perfect Health Diet.

All of these diets work on creating a state of ketosis, which is a state our bodies naturally go into during famine and stress.

She also thinks opening - night film Black 47, a Western set during the famine, starring Hugo Weaving and Barry Keoghan, could be this year's most successful Irish film.

Students are then better equipped to understand and use the key concepts of mathematical modeling for everything from modeling bacterial growth in a colony to finding optimum food distribution methods during a famine, or planning a schedule for a tournament.

One day when I went to eat lunch and saw my friend throw out food because she didn't like it, I couldn't help but think of William during the famine and how that bit of food would have helped his family for a week.

He then advised that the surplus food production during prosperity be saved to make up for the deficit during famine.

Rather than just sending food during famine — although we have to do that to avert starvation — we also have to bring new techniques and new seeds and new technologies to more farmers so they can boost their yields and increase their incomes, feed more people and lift countless millions out of poverty.

If we didn't, we'd be the first people to die during a famine — we're genetically here because our ancestors have a taste for these things.»

Some of the subjects were gestated during famine and some were gestated just afterward.

During the famine in the late 1980s, he helped march 160,000 Tigrayan people to Sudan and feed them.

If for example, you grow up during a famine (the Irish potato famine for instance), your body would grow but be missing certain elements and compounds needed for full development.

When SPM begins, Cruise says, the body tenaciously holds onto fat stores just as it would during a famine.

In ancient times, during a famine, you'd need to live on your stored fat, and down - regulating your metabolism seems like a pretty good way to do this.