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For the novel Hunger by Knut Hamsun, see Hunger (novel). For the 1983 horror film, see The Hunger. See also Hunger (disambiguation). Hunger is a feeling experienced by animals when the glycogen level of the liver falls below a certain point. The usually unpleasant feeling originates in the hypothalamus and is released through receptors in the liver and stomach. An average nourished human can survive about 50 days without food intake, but only three days without fluids. Hunger can als ...
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- Hunger (National Women's Health Information Center)
- Hunger in the U.S (Food Research and Action Center)
Hunger News Headlines
- Kellogg Company Funds National Plan To Combat Hunger In Mexico
MedicalNewsToday - Sat, 10 Feb 2007 08:00 EST
- Grievers yearn, rather than get depressed
The Earth Times - Thu, 22 Feb 2007 06:43 EST
- Anoushka joins hands with WFP to feed the poor
The Earth Times - Thu, 22 Feb 2007 12:20 EST
- 'Blood Diamond' Stars Speak Out Against World Hunger
MedicalNewsToday - Sat, 27 Jan 2007 10:00 EST
- Warming to spread disease, hunger in South Asia: WHO
Reuters - Thu, 15 Feb 2007 02:20 EST
- New Harvard Findings Suggest Multiple Dimensions Shape Our Perception Of 'Mind'
MedicalNewsToday - Sun, 04 Feb 2007 09:00 EST
- Cannabis drug may help fight obesity
Reuters - Tue, 30 Jan 2007 04:11 EST
- The Prem Rawat Foundation Helps Fight Hunger & AIDS In India
MedicalNewsToday - Mon, 08 Jan 2007 08:00 EST
- Delhi doctors begin hunger strike
BBC - Fri, 15 Dec 2006 06:51 EST
- Armstrong: Washington weakens fight against cancer
CNN - Wed, 10 Jan 2007 03:57 EST
- USDA Handouts For Hungry Poor Are Poorly Written
MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 02 Jan 2007 08:00 EST
- England Cricket Team And WFP Link Up To Bowl Out Hunger
MedicalNewsToday - Sat, 11 Nov 2006 09:00 EST
- Cloned wheat gene boosts nutrition: USDA
Reuters - Fri, 24 Nov 2006 08:49 EST
- Seeking a Stable Weight? Maybe You Should Bring Home the Bacon.
Washington Post - Tue, 05 Dec 2006 05:00 EST
- USDA says 12 mln Americans faced hunger in 2005
Reuters - Thu, 16 Nov 2006 02:51 EST
- USDA says 12 mln Americans faced hunger in 2005
Reuters - Thu, 16 Nov 2006 02:51 EST
- 'Hunger critical' in South Asia
BBC - Fri, 13 Oct 2006 01:43 EST
- Hunger the next big enemy in war on AIDS
MSNBC - Sun, 12 Nov 2006 09:46 EST
- Outright Hunger Among Latino Immigrants In North Carolina, Survey Finds
MedicalNewsToday - Mon, 25 Sep 2006 06:00 EST
- Food Or Its Expectation Sparks Brain's Hunger Centers
MedicalNewsToday - Sun, 08 Oct 2006 11:00 EST
- WFP And UNICEF Call On Congress: Help End Child Hunger Now
MedicalNewsToday - Sat, 30 Sep 2006 03:00 EST
- Promising Antiobesity Drug Fails To Produce Clinically Meaningful Weight Loss
MedicalNewsToday - Sun, 08 Oct 2006 10:00 EST
- Stave Off Hunger With Protein
MedicalNewsToday - Fri, 08 Sep 2006 12:00 EST
- The Picky Eater Files
Washington Post - Tue, 26 Sep 2006 04:00 EST
- Promising Antiobesity Drug Fails To Produce Clinically Meaningful Weight Loss
ScienceDaily - Thu, 05 Oct 2006 03:00 EST
- Eating Protein Boosts Hormone That Staves Off Hunger
ScienceDaily - Wed, 06 Sep 2006 03:00 EST
- Mapping The Neural Landscape Of Hunger
ScienceDaily - Sun, 20 Aug 2006 03:00 EST
- NYC children struggle with hunger, obesity
Reuters - Wed, 06 Sep 2006 12:06 EST
- NYC children struggle with hunger, obesity: report
Reuters - Wed, 06 Sep 2006 12:35 EST
- WFP And Stanford University Press Publish New Series On Hunger
MedicalNewsToday - Mon, 17 Jul 2006 06:00 EST
- Vaccine slows hunger hormone, keeps rats slim
Reuters - Mon, 31 Jul 2006 08:05 EST
- Are You A Little Low? Failure To Match Energy Intake With Requirements Is A Possible Cause Of That 'low Blood Sugar' Feeling
MedicalNewsToday - Thu, 17 Aug 2006 07:00 EST
- Breaking The Vicious Cycle Of Hunger And HIV & AIDS In Africa
MedicalNewsToday - Sun, 13 Aug 2006 06:00 EST
- Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report Highlights HIV/AIDS-Related Articles
MedicalNewsToday - Wed, 16 Aug 2006 05:00 EST
- Body's Brain Link to Hunger Identified
MedicineNet - Fri, 21 Jul 2006 06:00 EST
- Wars Chaos Steals Congos Young by the Millions
New York Times - Sun, 30 Jul 2006 03:00 EST
- Scientists take step toward obesity vaccine
Reuters - Tue, 01 Aug 2006 11:30 EST
- How Genetic Glitch Could Keep Some People From Feeling Full, Study
MedicalNewsToday - Thu, 03 Aug 2006 09:00 EST
- HIV/AIDS Aggravates Chronic Hunger Despite Better Harvests In Southern Africa
MedicalNewsToday - Wed, 28 Jun 2006 11:00 EST
- "Food Insecure" Appalachians More Likely To Be Obese, Diabetic, Study Finds
MedicalNewsToday - Wed, 21 Jun 2006 10:00 EST
- Link Between Obesity And Memory? Researchers Examine Hormone That Turns Off Hunger
ScienceDaily - Wed, 14 Jun 2006 02:00 EST
- Heifer Has New Strategy To Fight HIV/AIDS In Africa; Providing Better Nutrition Makes Anti-Retrovirus Medicines More Effective
MedicalNewsToday - Fri, 16 Jun 2006 06:00 EST
- Obesity Surgery Affects Hunger Hormones
WebMD - Fri, 12 May 2006 10:46 EST
- HIV-Positive Inmates In South African Prison To Receive Access To ARVs After Hunger Strike
MedicalNewsToday - Fri, 19 May 2006 06:00 EST
- Obesity Surgery Affects Hunger Hormones
MedicineNet - Mon, 15 May 2006 06:00 EST
- Two million face hunger in Burundi: aid group
Reuters - Tue, 25 Apr 2006 11:36 EST
- Choosing Between Food And Medicine More Common Among Emergency Department Patients, USA
MedicalNewsToday - Fri, 19 May 2006 08:00 EST
- Tanzania: Urgent Food Aid Needed For Half A Million Hit By Drought
MedicalNewsToday - Wed, 17 May 2006 08:00 EST
- Worm's Hunger Response Provides Clue To Eating Disorders
MedicalNewsToday - Sun, 09 Apr 2006 01:00 EST
- Nutrition Notes: Cut calories without hunger
MSNBC - Fri, 05 May 2006 12:29 EST
- Unicef Cites China's Gains in Fighting Child Hunger
New York Times - Wed, 03 May 2006 03:00 EST
- HIV prisoners stage hunger strike
BBC - Mon, 27 Mar 2006 02:09 EST
- HIV-Positive Inmates In South African Prison End Hunger Strike Advocating Access To Treatment
MedicalNewsToday - Mon, 03 Apr 2006 12:00 EST
- US, African scientists seek biotech answer to hunger
Reuters - Mon, 27 Mar 2006 03:49 EST
- Starvation Response In Worms Points To Common Hunger Pathway
MedicalNewsToday - Sun, 09 Apr 2006 03:00 EST
- US, African scientists seek biotech answer to hunger
Reuters - Mon, 27 Mar 2006 12:16 EST
- US, African scientists seek biotech answer to hunger
Reuters - Mon, 27 Mar 2006 07:46 EST
- Malnourished means obese as much as emaciated: UN
Reuters - Thu, 16 Mar 2006 04:39 EST
- Medics attack Guantanamo policy
BBC - Fri, 10 Mar 2006 07:29 EST
- Fool Your Body Into Feeling Full
ABC News - Tue, 21 Feb 2006 10:32 EST
- Fool Your Body Into Feeling Full
ABC News - Tue, 21 Feb 2006 02:45 EST
- Hunger pangs ''may trigger memory''
BBC - Mon, 20 Feb 2006 12:15 EST
- Cholera kills 24, infects thousands in hungry Malawi
Reuters - Mon, 20 Feb 2006 01:04 EST
- Resolved To Lose Weight? Social Cues Encourage Overeating: University Of Toronto Study
ScienceDaily - Sat, 31 Dec 2005 03:00 EST
- Obesity Treatment - Blocking Cannabinoid Receptor, CB1 Shows Promise
MedicalNewsToday - Sun, 25 Dec 2005 11:00 EST
- Why Blood Sugar Level Gets Out Of Balance In Diabetes - CARM1 Regulates The Pacers Of Glucose Synthesis
MedicalNewsToday - Thu, 22 Dec 2005 11:00 EST
- ''Hunger'': Never Enough
New York Times - Sun, 18 Sep 2005 03:00 EST
- HIV/AIDS Contributing to Rising Hunger in Southern Africa
MedicalNewsToday - Thu, 22 Sep 2005 09:00 EST
- Next Threat: Illness
Washington Post - Tue, 13 Sep 2005 03:00 EST
- Hunger persists for more than 3 million in Ethiopia
MedicalNewsToday - Thu, 25 Aug 2005 09:00 EST
- Ronaldinho Joins The Fight Against Child Hunger
MedicalNewsToday - Wed, 17 Aug 2005 02:00 EST
- Operation Blessing Hurricane Katrina Relief Activities
MedicalNewsToday - Fri, 02 Sep 2005 07:00 EST
- Annan Tours Niger to Highlight Food Crisis
ABC News - Wed, 24 Aug 2005 12:39 EST
- Annan Tours Niger to Highlight Food Crisis
ABC News - Tue, 23 Aug 2005 03:27 EST
- Hunger hormone linked to memory
BBC - Mon, 18 Jul 2005 10:06 EST
- WFP''S Niger Appeal Triples To Help 2.5 Million People Facing Extreme Hunger
MedicalNewsToday - Wed, 03 Aug 2005 11:00 EST
- The Protein Solution
Washington Post - Tue, 19 Jul 2005 03:00 EST
- Urgent Food Airlift By French NGO For Niger''s Hungry
MedicalNewsToday - Sun, 24 Jul 2005 10:00 EST
- Over one million to feed in Niger, WFP
MedicalNewsToday - Wed, 13 Jul 2005 03:00 EST
- Small farmers are key to easing poverty - G8 advised
MedicalNewsToday - Sun, 03 Jul 2005 06:00 EST
- Aid Groups Plead for Africa Hunger Relief
ABC News - Fri, 03 Jun 2005 09:18 EST
- GM Rice Will Not End Hunger in China, The Lancet
MedicalNewsToday - Thu, 19 May 2005 06:00 EST
- College, U.N. Fight Hunger in Guatemala
ABC News - Sun, 01 May 2005 01:11 EST
- Sugar "Addiction" a Sign of Hunger, Not Usually Lack Of Control
MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 17 May 2005 06:00 EST
- U.N.: Ethiopian Kids May Die From Hunger
ABC News - Wed, 04 May 2005 10:53 EST
- More Support for Food Aid Agencies Needed To Break Cycle of Poverty Caused by HIV/AIDS Epidemics, Editorial Says
MedicalNewsToday - Mon, 09 May 2005 06:00 EST
- An Appetite Killer for a Killer Appetite? Not Yet
New York Times - Tue, 19 Apr 2005 04:00 EST
- Fooling the Eyes With Portion Size
WebMD - Tue, 05 Apr 2005 04:36 EST
- God vs. Science
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