Sentence examples for fend off disease from inspiring English sources
Bees need good nutrition to stay healthy and to fend off disease, which is often introduced by humans.
But the most intriguing theory of all is one that's more intrinsic: the possible existence of a 'longevity gene' that has helped centenarians like Tegas fend off disease.
These institutions are searching for ways to fend off disease and large debts by bringing uninsured visitors into continuing basic care.
At every stop, the travelers become participants in some sad or horrific event, from the macabre "cripples' wedding" meant to fend off disease to the live burial of a suspected witch.
Dean Kamen, perhaps best known as the inventor of the Segway Human Transporter, the gyroscopic electronic scooter, is working on the distribution of a portable water purifier to help fend off disease in developing countries.
It is clear from research on laboratory animals that a rich mixture of gut bacteria is essential for digestion and some medical authorities believe that gut flora may help to fend off disease.
The microbiome can even fend off disease-causing bacteria.
You won't hear gasping or choking sounds, but gradually its health and vigor decline, reducing its ability to fend off diseases and increasing its susceptibility to insect attack.
Loren Rieseberg, an evolutionary biologist at the University of British Columbia who was not involved with the study, said the work was important because it suggested that an entire class of genes, those involved with fending off disease, and a particular kind of natural selection — that imposed by disease organisms — could be broadly important in speciation in plants.
The Tutanjai ("Mud and Soot Retreat, or Retreat of Misery") was a ceremony of collective contrition, with the purpose of fending off disease, the punishment of sin, by prior confession; in Chinese civil law, confession resulted in an automatic reduction or suspension of sentence.
Also remaining legal in the U.S. is the more recent practice of spurring growth and fending off disease in chickens and turkeys with arsenic-laced feed.
