Anorexia and Bulimia: Manifestation: The prolonged stress put on the body as a result of these eating disorders forces the body into starvation mode.

This life in starvation mode had him by the neck.

"Our bodies are smart enough that they don't go into starvation mode after only 3 hours," she says.

First glucose builds up in the ECF, then the cells go into starvation mode and the body breaks down fat in an attempt to fix the problem.

When we came into each town we were so hungry we over ate and we sort of entered starvation mode.

After 3 weeks the body enters a "starvation mode".

Equivalent or closely related terms include famine response, starvation mode, famine mode, starvation resistance, starvation tolerance, adapted starvation, adaptive thermogenesis and metabolic adaptation.

"The average person's body goes into starvation mode if she eats fewer than 1,200 calories a day," says Eric Berg, author of The 7 Principles of Fat Burning.

Then when you stop dieting, the body, which has been acting in a kind of starvation mode, finds that it has become used to its new BMR and requires less calories to function.

Deprived of fuel and exercising at a high level, the body can move into a state of energy imbalance, a kind of starvation mode.