Sentences with phrase «subsisting on»

They're based on an ooooold Margaret Fulton recipe, from a cookbook Husband's mother gave him when he left home so he would cook nutritious meals for himself (sadly, he was still subsisting on pasta with cheese when I met him, so it didn't have quite the effect she'd hoped for).

Nicaragua is a Central American country with a population of more than six million people subsisting on an average income of $ 2,600 per year.

Come exam time, we see its physical manifestations: the law student, hibernating in the law library, subsisting on a diet of coffee and candy, sits surrounded by mountains of books, empty cans of energy drinks and an arsenal of highlighters.

If you have been subsisting on document review jobs, you probably have many fears.

This is why I've been subsisting on clementines for the past three days, as they're the only fruit that does not come shrouded in plastic.

Yet the goats had become wild, subsisting on the islands by no fault of their own.

«As for the cows, it would be anthropomorphizing to assume that they abhor standing haunch - to - haunch in each other's manure all day, passing antibiotic - resistant infections to each other while subsisting on a diet they were never meant to eat.

Instead of subsisting on whatever subsidy scraps and regulatory dispensations benevolent government grants them, they should fight for their customers and for themselves.

The Inupiaq people have lived here for some 4,000 years, subsisting on the bounty of nearby seas, rivers, and fields, but now animal and bird migration patterns are changing.

The animals are active year - round, surviving the winter by subsisting on small haystacks of grass and wildflowers they collect and cure in the sun during the short alpine growing season.

While this may sound like basic criteria for any museum exhibition, a lot of art today is wan, subsisting on overly complicated postured concepts about which you can't imagine anyone truly cares — including the artists themselves.

In Mexico nearly 10 % of the population live in what the World Bank defines as extreme poverty — subsisting on an average daily consumption of $ 1.25 or less.

Other historical highlights came from the freshly christened Lévy Gorvy gallery, whose offerings included a chilled - out 1970 installation by Enrico Castellani with his trademark white textured panels becoming walls of a room and a legendary suite of 14 haunting self - portraits that Adrian Piper made in the summer of 1971, when, as Kaelen Wilson - Goldie once succinctly put it, the artist was «holed up alone in her apartment, reading Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (1781), practicing yoga, and subsisting on nothing but juice and water.»

Apart from subsisting on what they could grow themselves, the Maya were supported by the sea and engaged in regular trade with other settlements inland and along the coast.

Many dogs are not as efficient in doing that and your cat has a really hard time subsisting on a high carbohydrate diet.That is why fat in your pet's diet is more necessary to them than to you.

It would be like subsisting on food from your local corner gas station or fast food restaurant.

Because your bunny's ancestors spent millions of years subsisting on low - calorie plant matter, feeding them dense, low fiber fruits like bananas can easily cause them to become overweight or obese.

The dogs are generally either tied to the back of a trailer or housed 15 dogs to a 5 x 5 crate, often subsisting on occasional table scraps.

While he fought through the legalities, he was subsisting on his greatly reduced income, and didn't have much to live for.

The new Pooled Registered Pension Plan (PRPP) was created in response to concerns that dwindling savings rates and the elimination of many employer pension plans will result in future retirees subsisting on Kraft Dinner and instant noodles.

He had a pregnant girlfriend, was living in small - town Utah, was making less than $ 5 an hour, and was subsisting on welfare checks.

In this place of concrete and telephone wires, transients subsisting on very little and tourists lost on the way to the nearby theme park, six - year - old Moonee (Brooklynn Prince) runs amok with a shifting group of friends and gets into trouble with the motel's usually patient manager Bobby (Willem Dafoe), while being occasionally looked after by her very young, alternately lackadaisical and ferocious mom, Halley (Bria Vinaite).

Through it all Chinaski pens short stories and sends them off blindly to a magazine in New York, subsisting on jug - wine and pancakes, cigarettes and melancholy.

He emerges into a world of about 60 teen boys who have learned to survive in a completely enclosed environment, subsisting on their own agriculture and supplies.

Basic principles: The website claims eliminating solid foods and subsisting on a lemon juice — based drink flushes the system of internal waste and toxins, helps you overcome «psychological» cravings for food, and results in weight loss.

While it is conceivable that someone on an extremely low - carbohydrate intake could suffer from a deficiency of total glucose, particularly if subsisting on a diet that is also very low in protein and deficient in nutrients needed for gluconeogenesis, this is likely to be very rare.

For those who might not be in the know, a juice fast or juice detox, as this intervention is popularly known, entails abstaining from solid meals and subsisting on cold pressed juices (made from fruits and / or veggies) for an average of about 3 - 9 days.

, your pet may be subsisting on processed food that may not digest well and can cause issues, just like processed food does to humans.

During spring, I find my body naturally drawn toward detoxifying foods and fresh greens — probably because spring is the season to detox the liver and because my body is craving leafy greens after a cold winter subsisting on mostly frozen veggies since I almost live in the Arctic Circle.

Subsisting on only juices may deprive you of important macronutrients that our bodies require for optimal function such as protein, essential fatty acids, and other essential nutrients.

Now granted, I had rough start as a vegetarian, initially subsisting on cereal and frozen burritos.

The isolated people Price photographed — with their fine bodies, ease of reproduction, emotional stability and freedom from degenerative ills — stand in sharp contrast to civilized moderns subsisting on the «displacing foods of modern commerce,» including sugar, white flour, pasteurized milk, lowfat foods, vegetable oils and convenience items filled with extenders and additives.

In general though, I haven't found any account of groups subsisting on whole grain, except Sudan and perhaps some other places.

If you're subsisting on mostly produce, it can be hard to stay satisfied.

We know this because there have been marvelously successful societies subsisting on both HF and LF.

I realize it's probably existed for eons — particularly since «chia» is the Mayan word for strength — but I'm convinced that «Born to Run,» with its tale of runners subsisting on chia alone for endless miles, brought this faux - dessert into our cultural fold, where it now lines the shelves of upscale bodegas and juice bars in the form of the conveniently packaged Chia Pod.

And of course the approach has had many successes — taking vitamin C really does ward off scurvy if, for whatever reason, you're subsisting on a diet devoid of vitamin C.

Skipping breakfast, skipping meals, and subsisting on coffee and pastries, pasta dishes, smoothies, or other high - carb meals is a recipe for hypoglycemia.

Even though the Dukan Diet allows vegetarian meat substitutes, subsisting on these for a week may not work for you.

We are designed to live for days or weeks without food — subsisting on the stored food energy in our body fat.

Think of it this way: dogs eating pre-made fortified foods enriched with vitamins every single day would be similar to humans subsisting on breakfast cereal.

Last year, in a desperate attempt to jump - start healthier habits, I tried the trendy «Master Cleanse,» which had me subsisting on a barely tolerable concoction of lemon juice, maple syrup, and cayenne pepper, along with all the herbal tea I could drink.

(As long as you are eating healthy plant - based foods rather than subsisting on white pasta, chips, and vegan pizza.)

If you think subsisting on a quarter of your calorie output two days a week is extreme, wait until you hear about a protocol that prohibits food, period.

She notes that officials with the French National Office for Hunting and Wildlife have seen hamsters in the wild subsisting on mostly corn and eating their pups.

That's because it is received wisdom in anthropology that prehistoric hunter - gatherers, subsisting on meat and wild plants, rarely had cavities.

In 1769 she embarked on a 10 - month, 3,000 - mile trek through nearly impenetrable Amazon rain forest, subsisting on palm cabbage, seeds, and wild fruit.

Researchers speculate that primitive life could eke out an existence there, subsisting on a bare minimum of dissolved organic carbon — a notion bolstered by the recent discovery of bacteria within refrozen ice in a core drilled to 100 meters above the lake under Vostok Station (ScienceNOW, 9 December 1999).

In 2006 a probe at a South African gold mine turned up bacteria living nearly two miles underground, subsisting on the energy given off by radioactive rocks.

The only plausible way that could happen would be if the microbes were subsisting on the petrogenic carbon, which would have shed its radioactive signature long ago, thanks to its subsurface journey.