He was about Ding's age, smaller and more lightly built, but puffy around the face from the starchy diet of the local peasant farmers.

The starchy, low-fiber diet increased the diabetes risk in all the women, independent of other risk factors like age, obesity, exercise and family history.

He was, Jack saw, a little thinner now that he was eating a less starchy diet.

He kneaded the soft flesh and thought that it must be the starchy diet, that and sitting around on his chunk most of the time.

Trices are posted," the clerk said in a monotone; she was in her fifties, flabby with a starchy diet and lack of exercise.

From the teeth, it appeared that the owner had lived largely on a starchy, plant-based diet.

Perry and colleagues speculated the increased copy number of the salivary amylase gene may have enhanced survival coincident to a shift to a starchy diet during human evolution.

Ute McGillivray looked like a Valkyrie on a starchy diet; tall, very blond, and broadly powerful.

Others believe that the reportedly abundant, but starchy, low-protein diet may have contributed to severe malnutrition of the "Indians" who were used to a diet fortified with protein from sea-life.

Behind such figures, of course, lie a lot of frayed overcoats, starchy diets and appalling medical care.