What Is Starvation Dieting?

starve

–verb (used without object)

1. to die or perish from lack of food or nourishment.

2.to be in the process of perishing or suffering severely from hunger.

–verb (used with object)

7. to cause to starve; kill, weaken, or reduce by lack of food.

8. to subdue, or force to some condition or action, by hunger: to starve a besieged garrison into a surrender.

9. to cause to suffer for lack of something needed or craved.

star·va·tion

–noun

1.the act or state of starving; condition of being starved.

–adjective

2.liable or seeming to cause starving: a starvation diet.

The definitions above, though dealing with the matters of starvation and starvation dieting do little to quantify the concept.

But we can.

Let’s look at some episodes in history where human beings have intentionally tried to kill or cause suffering to other human beings through nutritional deprivation: [i]

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