Sentences with phrase «time of food scarcity»

During times of food scarcity our cell membranes become more sensitive to insulin.

The study authors suggest that this positive feedback loop may have served an important role in evolution, by prompting animals to fatten up when they stumbled across calorically dense food in times of food scarcity.

Bugs can provide a source of nutrition during seasonal times of food scarcity.

Shortages of fertile females were particularly common in times of food scarcity, when baboon troops distance themselves from each other and females take 15 percent longer between successive births — which means males who don't kill have even longer to wait.

The research team suggests this mechanism may have played a role in evolution by stimulating animals to fatten up in times of food scarcity.

Bone broth was not just a staple food, it sustained families during times of food scarcity and satiated the many hungry bellies.

'' The organization of the females» response to the energy restricted diets is suggestive of some underlying mechanism that may allow for an organized, pre-programmed, response to enhance survival in times of food scarcity.

Like other sexually size - dimorphic birds, female blue - footed boobies usually favor the smaller sex during times of food scarcity.

Urban Farms Reduce Air Pollution» [People] being able to supply their own fruit and vegetables is clearly an advantage in a time of food scarcity and rising prices.