Sentences with phrase «of slow starvation»

The ascetic diet of slow starvation eliminated body fat — which tends to decay faster than other types of tissue — and built up chemical compounds toxic to bacteria associated with decomposition.

Jainism is the one faith with which the author is acquainted which not only condones but lauds suicide, only, however, by the method of slow starvation.

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Catherine described hiding in the mire of pigs to escape the Red Army, only to be captured and condemned to death by slow starvation.

For all of you no breakfast people out there, you could be going ten to sixteen hours without adding any fuel to your system - enough time to put your body into starvation mode and slow down your metabolism.

For kids and teens, significantly restricting calories or following fad diets or starvation plans can deprive them of the nutrients their growing bodies need and may actually slow down growth and sexual development.

That is what «basic level» consists of: solitary confinement, dehumanisation, deprivation of any support or sympathetic human contact and, in the worse - case scenario, actual slow starvation.

«These galaxies entered a feeding frenzy that would quickly exhaust the food supply in the following hundreds of million years and lead to the new galaxy's slow starvation for the rest of its life,» said lead author Hai Fu, a UC Irvine postdoctoral scholar.

On the other hand, dieting tends to slow down the metabolic rate, thereby forcing the body into a «starvation mode» where it tries to conserve all of its remaining fuel and this leads to burning less calories and an impaired performance in the weight room.

With traditional diets your body goes into «starvation mode» and the metabolism automatically slows down.This is not the case with intermittent fasting however.Because you will eat normally the day before the fast, your Leptin (one of the most important hormones for metabolism regulation) levels will be high so your metabolic rate will be increased.

The creators of this diet thought that by never staying consistently low with the calories, one would be able to avoid the «starvation mode» metabolic slow - down.

It is a part of the reason why weight loss tends to slow down over time, and is often referred to as «starvation mode.»

A restrictive diet slows down your metabolism, as your body tries to compensate for a lack of nutrients — this is because your body has moved into «starvation mode.»

Contrary to what you may have heard elsewhere, going without food for short periods of time will not cause your metabolism to slow down and you will not go into «starvation mode».

Don't just reduce your calories as a way to lose weight as you will be slowing down your metabolism and encouraging your body to store more of what you eat as it will go into starvation mode.

It takes your body about one short week of calorie restriction to substantially trigger «starvation mode» and perpetuate negative adaptations such as decreased metabolism, suppressed thyroid and leptin levels, slowed / stalled fat loss, etc..

For example everyone is afraid of metabolic slow down, part of the often touted starvation mode, studies have shown that this doesn't really happen till after about 72 hrs (and it may even increase in the period up to 72 hrs).

Certain parts of it are real (like your metabolic rate slowing down), but they're either nowhere near as significant as people think (like that same metabolic slow down) or they're just not what people think, period («I skipped breakfast today... I'm probably already in starvation mode and burning muscle while gaining fat!!!»).

This was also the same change noted in cases of starvation, as the body attempted to slow its metabolic rate (in order to store fat and stave off illness and death).

Weight loss doesn't slow down because of starvation mode.

The rest of the family were sent to a forced labor camp where Janie witnessed her mother's slow death from starvation and madness, while Sopham trained, at the age of 8, to be an interrogator for their captors.

I think the sheer volume does lend a degree of exaggeration to their numbers, but hey, there are at least 900 (they signed the Amazon are condemning poor James Patterson to a slow death by starvation open letter), plus of course all the staff at traditional publishing houses, and some camp - followers.

Instant death by humane methods is better than a slow death by disease, exposure, starvation, being crushed under the wheels of a car, or the painful living death of negligence or cruelty.

It's horrible to know that there are such disgusting, despicable, abusive, and heartless people out there that can smugly sit in their living rooms watching TV in the warmth of their homes all the while KNOWING that there is a helpless, unfed, unwatered, and unsheltered animal outside slowing dying from starvation, dehydration, and extreme weather!

Hard totalitarians simply exiled their unreconstructed subjects and critics to Siberia, but soft totalitarians prefer tying their subjects in a morass of ever thickening regulations, denying their critics any airtime — slow starvation being so much more humane and progressive.

The professional divisions are on starvation rations to persuade the stock market that aggressive cost cutting demonstrates excellent management and more than compensates for poor performance elsewhere; puzzlingly the markets have been slow to understand the brilliance of this position.