Discuss ways in which the body's metabolism adapts to conditions of fasting/starvation. how do these adaptations affect the rate of weight loss when dieting?

Explanation:

Fasting is process of voluntary abstinence from food whereas, starvation is a complete deprivation of food.  The starving and fasting individual looses weight affected by the different rates of loss of body weight on the basis of the body parts. The least essential tissues loose weight considerable at a faster rate later on the tissues and organs consisting of high fat content loose weight at a slow rate.

interphase

the period of cell growth when the cell synthesizes new molecules and organelles. the cell is not dividing and it constitutes the majority of the time spent in the cell cycle

prophase

changes occur in the nucleus and cytoplasm. the chromatin condenses to form structures (sister chromatids) visible with a light microscope and the mitotic spindle begins to form, but the nucleus is still in tact

prometaphase

the nuclear envelope fragments and the spindle microtubules attach to the kinetochores of the sister chromatids

metaphase

all the cell's duplicated chromosomes are lined up at an imaginary plane equidistant between the poles of the mitotic spindle

anaphase

begins when sister chromatids separate from each other and ending when a complete set of daughter chromosomes arrives at each of the two poles of the cell

telophase

the daughter nuclei form at the two poles of a cell

cytokinesis

the division of a cytoplasm to form two separate daughter cells. usually occurs during telophase during mitosis. this and mitosis make up to mitotic (m) phase of the cell cycle