semistarvation

Feminist author ( "The Beauty Myth") Naomi Wolf believes society is punishing women for their achievements by requiring them to engage in "semistarvation."

Let Them Eat Cake 2008

What accounts for the strange phenomenon that semistarvation appears to prolong life?

STARVE YOUR WAY TO HEALTH 2007

Many people want to lose weight in a hurry and try semistarvation diets, where they exist on very low-carbohydrate, low-calorie diets fewer than one thousand calories a day.

Fire Up Your Metabolism Lyssie Lakatos 2004

However, on the downside, you also know that during such a situation and while on semistarvation diets, you lose large amounts of your calorie-burning lean muscle tissue as well.

Fire Up Your Metabolism Lyssie Lakatos 2004

Scurvy and semistarvation meant that the pace of work was appallingly slow, and there were of course a proportion of convicts—and marines—who objected to work on principle.

Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

Scurvy and semistarvation meant that the pace of work was appallingly slow, and there were of course a proportion of convicts—and marines—who objected to work on principle.

Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

A war broke out and courageously he left to fight, but because his body had become so weak from his years of semistarvation, he could not bear the weight of his armor and was soon slain by the enemy.

Out of Control Zbigniew Brzezinski 1993

But if she was an enemy, why did she bear the marks of beatings and semistarvation?

Winds Of Fate Lackey, Mercedes 1991

But if she was an enemy, why did she bear the marks of beatings and semistarvation?

Winds Of Fate Lackey, Mercedes 1991

At first it had been very difficult, but then she discovered that when she adhered to this semistarvation for long enough without once succumbing to the urge to stuff herself, her capacity to eat diminished, and the hunger pangs entirely went away.

The First Man in Rome McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1990