starvation

For our early ancestors, body fat was a lifeline: too little could mean starvation, too much could slow you down.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026

The 40-minute video by artist Helen Cammock at the central London gallery had referred to "the wilful starvation of the Indian population by Winston Churchill" in the 1943 famine.

From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026

The UN estimated that the conflict could push an additional 45 million people into “acute food insecurity,” which includes the risk of death as a result of starvation, bringing the total to 363 million.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026

"We may witness a crisis that will force 45 million more people into hunger and starvation."

From Barron's ● May 11, 2026

Protein starvation is probably also the ultimate reason why cannibalism was widespread in traditional New Guinea highland societies.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

Still bearing the scars from when she almost died, she went off the grid, calling herself Emma and taking jobs that were the “stuff that fresh starts and soul starvations were made of.”

From Washington Times ● Aug. 12, 2019

The cohort born in the 1970s and 1980s, who now compose the bulk of China’s workforce, grew up hearing about the deprivations and even starvations their parents experienced during China’s recent past.

From Slate ● Sep. 15, 2017

Lad, there are other starvations besides the total lack of food.

From Hidden Hand by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

These epochs are replete with interesting and romantic incidents, new discoveries; starvations; battles; massacres; lonely, dangerous journeys, etc., which can only be touched upon in a volume of the present size.

From The Romance of the Colorado River The Story of its Discovery in 1840, with an Account of the Later Explorations, and with Special Reference to the Voyages of Powell through the Line of the Great Canyons by Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh

The acorn bread was not sufficient to sustain lives already so attenuated by repeated starvations.

From History of the Donner Party, a Tragedy of the Sierra by C. F. (Charles Fayette) McGlashan