Nor do the world's slimmest people: the Far Easterners who mainly subsist on rice, and not even brown rice, but refined white rice.
It's a desperate and frustrated group, subsisting on one meal a day, mainly pasta, provided by a local aid group.
Admittedly, I was an irresponsible vegetarian when I was younger, subsisting on mainly bagels, falafel, and dirty martinis just because I didn't know any better.
As in Ethopia, Christians in Egypt celebrate the run up to Christmas by fasting for 43 days, subsisting on a mainly vegan diet.
People on the coast itself depended upon the sea for their food supply, some subsisting mainly on shellfish, some on sea mammals, others on fish, and still others on a mixture of all three.
It was the product of extreme paleontology: the team made four trips over six years to a site on Ellesmere Island, 887 miles from the North Pole, subsisting mainly on chocolate bars.
An approximate cutoff point of 500 grams (Kay's threshold, after the primatologist Richard Kay, who first drew attention to it) has been proposed as an upper limit for species subsisting mainly on insects and a lower limit for those relying on leaves.
The previous week, she had been subsisting mainly on grapefruit juice.
During the Brezhnev years he led a precarious life, subsisting mainly on his meagre earnings from translation.
He joined with four other street musicians, playing the bars in Greenwich Village and subsisting mainly on beer and tequila.
Diner writes that many 19th-century Italian peasants virtually never ate pasta or sausages, subsisting mainly on bread, rubbed with a tomato or a sardine if they were lucky.
