0 the act of eating only a very small amount of food in order to lose weight quickly:
She went on a starvation diet and ended up in hospital.
Those people have to survive on a starvation diet and need vital aid.
The patient who had to be kept on a starvation diet while his temperature was high, now needs feeding up.
That is hardly starvation diet for one telephone area out of 57 telephone areas in the country.
There are 800 million people on a starvation diet and 400 million of those people are in fact starving.
These suggestions to put the nation in bed on a starvation diet are the suggestions of an old woman in a fright.
Indeed, what has happened with redundancies is very much like putting a man suffering from a wasting disease on a starvation diet.
I think we should look carefully at any suggestion of reducing food production in a world where there are 800 million people on what is almost a starvation diet.
The other captured airmen remained in military confinement on a starvation diet, their health rapidly deteriorating.