OBJECTIVE To determine the characteristics of hunger in young children who attend ambulatory pediatric clinics in a midwestern city. DESIGN Consecutive sample. SETTING Ambulatory pediatric clinics of an inner-city teaching hospital. PARTICIPANTS English-speaking caregivers of 2578 children younger than 5 years. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE Structured survey measures of hunger, family characteri...

OBJECTIVE To determine if household coping strategies for child hunger in Canada have changed over a decade (1996-2007). METHODS We applied t-tests to data derived from Cycle 2 (1996-1997; n=8165) and Cycle 7 (2006-2007; n=15,961) of the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY) to determine changes in household coping strategies for child hunger. Data were restricted to hous...

BACKGROUND In Canada, hunger is believed to be rare. This study examined the prevalence of hunger among Canadian children and the characteristics of, and coping strategies used by, families with children experiencing hunger. METHODS The data originated from the first wave of data collection for the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth, conducted in 1994, which included 13,439 ra...

Hunger may play a role in noncommunicable disease (NCD) risk. This study used the 2012 Global School-based Student Health Survey from Bolivia to determine the association between hunger and risk factors for NCDs among adolescents. Hunger was associated with increased odds of nondaily fruit and vegetable consumption (adjusted odds ratio [AOR] = 1.21; P < .001), inadequate physical activity (AOR ...

Animals live in groups to defend against predation and to obtain food. However, for some animals-especially ones that spend long periods of time feeding-there are costs if a group chooses to move on before their nutritional needs are satisfied. If the conflict between feeding and keeping up with a group becomes too large, it may be advantageous for some groups of animals to split into subgroups...

Concerned that millions of the world's poorest and hungry people remain in poverty and hunger, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) facilitated a consultation process, which includes the conference "Taking Action for the World's Poor and Hungry People" on October 1719 in Beijing, to examine what new and different action is required to improve their welfare." Of the 400 parti...