OBJECTIVE Results from a recent series of surveys from 9 states and the District of Columbia by the Community Childhood Hunger Identification Project (CCHIP) provide an estimate that 4 million American children experience prolonged periodic food insufficiency and hunger each year, 8% of the children under the age of 12 in this country. The same studies show that an additional 10 million childre...

BACKGROUND People overeat because their hunger directs them to consume more calories than they require. The purpose of this study was to analyze the changes in experience and perception of hunger before and after participants shifted from their previous usual diet to a high nutrient density diet. METHODS This was a descriptive study conducted with 768 participants primarily living in the Unit...

1 2 Measuring hunger and satiety in children is essential to many studies of childhood eating behaviour 3 and obesity. Despite this, few validated measures currently exist that allow children to make 4 accurate and reliable ratings of their hunger/satiety. Three studies aimed to address this issue by 5 validating the use of a new categorical rating scale, Teddy the Bear, in the context of estim...

Sustainable development is the only kind of development possible for help in the third world. Due to various historical, political, geographic and climatic conditions the divergence between those countries providing and those receiving help is so vast that donations of labor and/or money is simply not enough. Rather, communities have to be taught to support and develop themselves during the rec...

The 2006 National Census puts Nigeria's population close to 150 million. Fifty two (52) percent of which are Women and about 45% of them live in the rural areas, the highest percentage of which are in the Northern part of the Country. As a Third World Nation, the features that characterized the population in Nigeria include illiteracy, poverty, hunger, disease, and general absence of basic infr...