Sentence examples for survive famine from inspiring English sources

Apparently dieting is useless for weight loss because we're naturally selected to survive famine.

Humans had evolved to survive famine, not feast, he said, and people today are the descendants of ancestors who had withstood starvation because they had genes that enabled them to store fat as a reserve.

Alan Davidson, in the Oxford Companion to Food, notes that tulip bulbs are "sometimes" used in Italy, before reminding the reader that they also helped Audrey Hepburn to survive famine in Utrecht in 1945.

According to Alex de Waal, rural populations tend to survive famine better than those in urban areas.

"Humans have evolved to survive famine, so our brains tend to tell us it's good to eat as much as we can while it's there, in order to survive the periods of food shortage.

"In the movie, Charlie Chaplin's character is a factory worker employed on an assembly line, but then he is fired and has to survive famine and harsh conditions on the street.

Those with such "thrifty genes" were more likely to survive famines and pass on their genes.

Dr. Chittaranjan Yajnik, a diabetes specialist, and Barry Popkin, a professor of nutrition at the University of North Carolina, are among the researchers exploring a theory that Indians evolved what Dr. Yajnik has called "a thin-fat" body type over millenniums as a way to survive famines when monsoons failed.

The fight-or-flight response helped our ancestors run from tigers and survive famines.

Obese people are simply those who in the past were the lucky ones who would survive famines, but in modern society are preparing for a famine that never comes.

Rural Africans were experts at surviving famine.