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Starvation is a severe deficiency in caloric energy intake, below the level needed to maintain an organism's life. It is the most extreme form of malnutrition.In humans, prolonged starvation can cause permanent organ damage [1] and eventually, death.
Starvation (crime), a crime under international law Starvation (computer science), a problem encountered in concurrent computing where a process is perpetually denied necessary resources to process its work
The starving artist is a typical late 18th and early 19th-century Romanticism figure featured in many paintings and works of literature.In 1851, Henri Murger wrote about four starving artists in Scènes de la Vie de Bohème, the basis for operas entitled La bohème by both Puccini and Leoncavallo.
Isabelle Caro, the French model who fell into a coma when her weight hit 55 pounds in 2006, died at age 28. After she recovered from that illness, Caro campaigned against voluntary starvation or ...
Editor's note: If you or someone you know has an eating disorder, you can get help through the National Eating Disorder Association by calling 800-931-2237 or chatting online at ...
"Feed a cold, starve a fever" is an adage or a wives' tale which attempts to instruct people how to deal with illness. The adage dates to the time of Hippocrates when fever was not well understood. His idea was the fever was the disease, and starving the sick person would starve the disease.
You can smell what’s happening in “Starve Acre” before you puzzle the rest of it out. The grassy, peaty dampness of its rural Yorkshire setting seems to hit the olfactory glands without any ...
Sokushinbutsu (即 身 仏) is a type of Buddhist mummy.In Japan the term refers to the practice of Buddhist monks observing asceticism to the point of death and entering mummification while alive.