Hunger

Childhood hunger.

Interest in the extent of hunger in the United States has fluctuated over the years. There was little public discussion of the subject during the post-Depression era until the mid-1960s, when unscientific but dramatic media exposés of the extent of hunger in the country helped launch the “war on poverty.” By 1979, the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Nutrition proclaimed “the virtual defeat of hunge...

Prevalence and intensity of food insecurity (hunger and hidden hunger aspects) in AsadAbadi region of Tabriz

Background: Food insecurity and hunger not only affect physical health, but also have social and psychological effects. Therefore, providing food security for society is one of the major goals of social and economical development programs. The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence and intensity of food insecurity at North West of Tabriz as a population sample of East Azerb...

Hunger and Malnutrition

The Hunger Games

Although AgRP and POMC neurons in the hypothalamus have long been associated with regulation of food intake, in this issue of Cell, Chen et al. use direct imaging in vivo to demonstrate rapid changes in their activity upon food presentation. The rapidity of their altered responses challenges classic notions of their functions and raises new hypotheses.

Children, Hunger, and Poverty.

This column started out to highlight hunger in American children. But one quickly finds that you cannot discuss hunger without its partner, poverty, since hunger is principally caused by poverty. We also discovered in 2006 the twenty-first century lexicon term of food insecurity. While hunger in the sense of “the uneasy or painful sensation caused by want of food”(Oxford English Dictionary 1971...