How did the starvation mode myth get started anyway? I know that I've heard it as long as I can remember: eat too little and your body will store fat in "starvation mode."  I'd be willing to bet that if you asked 100 random people what starvation mode is, 90 of them would give you the fatlogic answer. But the science has never shown anything of the sort.  The only time a significant starvation response was found was when people were literally starving, as in prolonged calorie restriction AND very low body fat.  There haven't been too many studies on the subject but every one comes to the same conclusion.  Not to mention the obvious fact that nobody starves to death while fat. So yeah...how the hell did the butter golems manage to get "starvation mode" to be an accepted thing?  I did some googling but can't find much on its actual source.  It has to be a fairly recent invention since I highly doubt anyone tried to claim that eating less made you fat during the Great Depression.