| As for food, yo-yo diets, involving periods of near starvation, damage valuable muscle and are positively unhealthy. |
| They showed that rats fed on zein, the major protein of maize endosperm, died of protein starvation. |
| I refrained from refilling the upstairs bowl for three days, hoping that night starvation would do the job. |
| A multinational behind glamorous fashion and perfume brands pays its factory workers starvation wages. |
| One result of this was occasional and localized food shortages so severe as to occasion hunger, starvation, and death. |
| These mutations cause larval lethality resulting from failed gut function and consequent starvation. |
