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.
There was no heating whatsoever, which was a serious problem in the winter months as the men were living on starvation diets.
The prisoners were worked 12 hours a day on starvation diets, and mortality rates were high.
The disclosure was made that many old-age pensioners are existing on near starvation diets, which are also deficient in vitamins, iron and other minerals.
Although they were not starvation diets, on 2,555 calories per day the single female factory operatives provide an informed basis for our comparisons.
The other captured airmen remained in military confinement on a starvation diet, their health rapidly deteriorating.
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.
Indeed, what has happened with redundancies is very much like putting a man suffering from a wasting disease on a starvation diet.
These suggestions to put the nation in bed on a starvation diet are the suggestions of an old woman in a fright.
