Genetically obese, goldthioglucose-injected, and control mice were compared for strength of hunger motivation as assessed by their performance on the following tasks: taste reactivity, readiness to eat, food-directed activity, and passive avoidance. On the basis of these tests, it appears that genetically obese mice have greater strength of hunger motivation than either goldthioglucose-injected...

Air hunger is an unpleasant urge to breathe and a distressing respiratory symptom of cardiopulmonary patients. An increase in tidal volume relieves air hunger, possibly by increasing pulmonary stretch receptor cycle amplitude. The purpose of this study was to determine whether increasing end-expiratory volume (EEV) also relieves air hunger. Six healthy volunteers (3 women, 31 +/- 4 yr old) were...

i. Hypoglycaemia increases appetite. Administration of glucose intravenously reduces or allays hunger. However, in diabetes mellitus hunger is present with hyperglycaemia. Mayer has suggested that peripheral arteriovenous glucose difference may be the guiding factor in these cases. When the peripheral arteriovenous blood glucose difference is reduced (i.e. when glucose utilisation by tissues is...

People ask me: Why do you write about food, and eating and drinking? . . . They ask it accusingly, as if I were somehow gross, unfaithful to the honor of my craft. . . . [I]t happens that when I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it . . . and warmth and richness and fine reality of hunger satisfied . . . and it is all one. . . . There is a communion of more than ...

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Instrumental Variable Estimation of the Causal Effect of Hunger Early in Life on Health Later in Life Numerous studies have evaluated the effect of nutrition early in life on health much later in life by comparing individuals born during a famine to others. Nutritional intake is typically unobserved and endogenous, whereas famines arguably provide exogenous variation in the provision of nutriti...

INTRODUCTION Increasing numbers of US residents rely on informal caregiving from friends and family members. Caregiving can have substantial health and financial impacts on caregivers. This study addressed whether those impacts include adverse nutritional states. Specifically, we examined household food insecurity, individual hunger, and obesity among caregivers compared with noncaregivers. M...

Mock et al. (2011) in the following referred to as ‘‘MDS’’, point out some weaknesses and inconsistencies in begging research, and they convincingly place signaling of need (Godfray, 1991) and signaling of quality (Grafen, 1990) at eye level as 2 competing hypotheses for the evolution of offspring begging signals. Hopefully, the 2 hypotheses will be placed to balanced tests in the future. They ...