Comparative Physiology of Fasting, Starvation, and Food Limitation

Chapter 1 An Introduction to Fasting, Starvation, and Food Limitation

Chapter 2 A History of Modern Research into Fasting, Starvation, and Inanition

Chapter 3 Starvation in Rotifers: Physiology in an Ecological Context

Chapter 4 Drosophila as a Model for Starvation: Evolution, Physiology, and Genetics

Chapter 5 Metabolic Transitions During Feast and Famine in Spiders

Chapter 6 Adaptation of the Physiological, Endocrine, and Digestive System Functions to Prolonged Food Deprivation in Fish

Chapter 7 Starvation in Subterranean Species Versus Surface-Dwelling Species: Crustaceans, Fish, and Salamanders

Chapter 8 Physiological Responses to Starvation in Snakes: Low Energy Specialists

Chapter 9 Cardiovascular Circuits and Digestive Function of Intermittent-Feeding Sauropsids

Chapter 10 Thermoregulatory Adaptations to Starvation in Birds

Chapter 11 Fasting in Birds: General Patterns and the Special Case of Endurance Flight

Chapter 12 Tissue-Specific Mass Changes During Fasting: The Protein Turnover Hypothesis

Chapter 13 Seasonal Changes in Body Mass and Energy Balance in Wild Small Mammals

Chapter 14 Changes in Form and Function of the Gastrointestinal Tract During Starvation: From Pythons to Rats

Chapter 15 Comparative Physiology of Fasting, Starvation, and Food Limitation

Chapter 16 Physiological Responses to Fasting in Bats

Chapter 17 Muscle Protein and Strength Retention by Bears During Winter Fasting and Starvation

Chapter 18 Seasonal Starvation in Northern White-Tailed Deer

Chapter 19 Fasting Physiology of the Pinnipeds: The Challenges of Fasting While Maintaining High Energy Expenditure and Nutrient Delivery for Lactation

Chapter 20 The Use and Application of Stable Isotope Analysis to the Study of Starvation, Fasting, and Nutritional Stress in Animals

Chapter 21 Fearing the Danger Point: The Study and Treatment of Human Starvation in the United Kingdom and India, c. 1880–1974

Chapter 22 Quantitative Physiology of Human Starvation: Adaptations of Energy Expenditure, Macronutrient Metabolism and Body Composition

Chapter 23 Alternate Day Fasting: Effects on Body Weight and Chronic Disease Risk in Humans and Animals

Chapter 24 Horizons in Starvation Research