subsistence diet

These were "by no means subsistence diets," Orshansky later wrote.

"Large portions of the population had a subsistence diet.

With no income other than welfare and contributions from relatives, the group survived on a bare subsistence diet.

Each year they have the right to harpoon three whales for their own subsistence diet, and the town was giddy with celebration.

He lives an austere existence in a one-room flat on a subsistence diet of black bread and synthetic meals washed down with Victory-brand gin.

Without gas or electricity, and surviving on the subsistence diet handed out by the United Nations, she grew progressively thinner and sickly in the cold cellar.

Thus, North Africa, along the Mediterranean from Morocco to Egypt has different food habits than Saharan Africans who consume subsistence diet.

Instead of a subsistence diet and clockwork discipline, there is junk food on demand, little supervision and close proximity to adults who are alcoholics, drug addicts and prematurely discharged psychotics.

When the first Europeans arrived, they encountered the Pericú people, who survived on a subsistence diet based on hunting and the gathering of seeds, roots, shellfish, and other marine resources.

A government report in the mid-1930s estimated that around 25% of the UK's population existed on a subsistence diet, often with signs of child malnutrition such as scurvy, rickets and tuberculosis.

The inmates were kept starving by the workhouse master who stole from the food supplies provided, which were already smaller in quantity than the subsistence diet decreed by the Poor Law Commission.

Rather, China remains an undeveloped country where most people survive on a subsistence diet and, in spite of the recent Government spending, sports facilities are few and awareness of the latest training theories scarcely exists.

Better for them to have died quickly than suffer years of misery in the mines of the Empire on a bare subsistence diet before dropping from disease or being abandoned when they were too old to work.

They went from scenarios in which Earth's every acre of arable land was farmed with maximum efficiency, to scenarios involving a return to hunting and gathering; from universal conspicuous consumption, to universal subsistence diets.

John T. Flynn stated that the department of Agriculture issued a bulletin telling the nation that the great problem of our time was "our failure to produce enough food to provide the people with a mere subsistence diet".

So they gave everyone a chance to catch up on eating and sleeping--though they still rationed the food, at Matt's insistence; he knew what gorging could do to people who'd been on a bare subsistence diet for so long.

"A hundred years ago," the First Speaker answered gently, "our suicide rate among young adults was not what it is today, nor had the last major continental mass of our fourth planet been dormitized, destroying the remaining natural land; the sea harvests were still adequate for our population's basic subsistence diet.