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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 also be applied metaphorically to cravings of other sorts.
The term is commonly used more broadly to refer to cases of widespread malnutrition or deprivation among populations, usually due to poverty, political conflicts or instability, or adverse agricultural conditions (famine).
Hunger as a condition
The term hungry is commonly used to mean having an appetite for food or to be ready for a meal. After a long period without food, the mild sensation of hunger associated with being ready for a meal becomes progressively more severe, until it is acutely painful. As hunger grows, most living things will experience some internal effects. In humans and other animals, hunger can cause a gurgling sound with a bubbling feeling in the small intestine (many mistakenly think the stomach does this), and can shrink the stomach. Prolonged hunger will drive people to eat substances with no nutritional value (such as grass and soil) simply to fill their stomachs, but doing so actually has an adverse effect on energy balance as energy is still required to digest these substances. More on [ Hunger ]
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Readings on Poverty, Hunger, and Economic Development - Fits lots of webpages together to present a coherent picture about the amount of food in the world, the role it plays in a capitalist economy, why people are poor, and what measures can be taken to eliminate poverty and hunger.
Meta Description: [ Readings on hunger and poverty ]
World Hunger Notes - An on-line magazine about world hunger and poverty in the United States published by World Hunger Education Service
Meta Description: [ World Hunger Notes, an on-line magazine about world hunger and poverty in the United States, is published by World Hunger Education Service (WHES). ]
Action Against Hunger - USA - USA part of an international humanitarian network called Action Against Hunger.
Bread for the World - Bread for the World stands in a long biblical and prophetic tradition of those who speak out boldly in defense of people who are poor, hungry and consigned to the margins of society. People of faith and conscience have long engaged in the struggle for a more just world. They have fought for the abolition of slavery, for an end to nuclear proliferation and for the respect of human dignity and freedom.
Congressional Hunger Center - A non-profit anti-hunger leadership training and a bi-partisan organization, serves as a center where the anti-hunger community can discuss creative solutions to end domestic and international hunger, located in Washington, DC.
Environmental Literacy Council: Food and Hunger - Articles critical of agribusiness, pesticides, and genetically engineered plants.
Fidel Castro Speech - The Cuban president presents appalling statistics on the hunger of children and other issues at the 50th World Health Assembly, May 1998.
Meta Description: [ Dr Fidel Castro's speech at the 50th World Health Assembly, May 1998 ]
Food Dumping (or Aid) Maintains Poverty - Looks at the effects of food aid to developing countries in non-emergency situations. Additional links, articles and research are provided, including links.
Meta Description: [ This part of the globalissues.org web site looks into some of the issues relating to food aid and poverty. At first thought, food aid is noble. However, the way it has turned out has increased dependency of poor people, furthering poverty itself. ]
Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy - Food First/The Institute for Food and Development Policy is an education-for-action center and non-profit think tank focusing on issues of hunger, food, poverty, agriculture, trade, and rural development, guided by the principle that food is a fundamental human right.
FRAC - Consequences of Hunger - Short fact sheet. Hunger impacts on health (physical and mental), literacy, intelligence, child development, education, and infant mortality.
Meta Description: [ The Food Research and Action Center (FRAC) is the leading national organization working to improve public policies in order to eradicate hunger and undernutrition in the United States. FRAC is a nonprofit and nonpartisan research, policy, public education and advocacy center that serves as the h... ]
Hunger: Myths and Realities - Contains myths about world hunger and their respective truths.
Meta Description: [ Myth One: There is not enough food and not enough land. Untrue: Measured globally, there is enough to feed everyone. For example there is enough grain being produced today to provide everybody in the world with enough protein and about 3000 calories a day, which is what the average American consu... ]
HungerBanquet.org - Learn about hunger from the point of view of those who experience it every day. HungerBanquet.org is part of Oxfam's Fast for a World Harvest campaign, which raises awareness and funds to fight poverty world hunger.
Meta Description: [ HungerBanquet.org gives you a chance to learn about hunger from the point of view of those who experience it every day. HungerBanquet.org is part of Oxfam America's Fast for a World Harvest campaign, which raises awareness and funds to fight world hunger. ]
NomadNet - A collection of unorthodox views on aid and relief operations: Many articles suggest charities are partially to blame for hunger in Africa becasue they ignore evidence about hunger in order to fatten their coffers.
Meta Description: [ NomadNet, Views on Relief, Development and Humanitarianism not sanctioned by the establishment ]
RESULTS - Nonprofit, grassroots citizens's lobby working to create the political will to end hunger and the worst aspects of poverty, and committed to having individual citizens have a breakthrough in realizing their own personal and political power.
Still Hungry - Position paper on world hunger, showing it has little changed in a quarter century, with more children than ever going hungry.
The Hunger Site - Includes facts as well as a form for making donations.
Meta Description: [ The Hunger Site was founded to focus the power of the Internet on a specific humanitarian need: the eradication of world hunger. Since its launch in June 1999, the site has established itself as a leader in online activism, helping to feed the world's hungry. On average, over 220,000 individuals ... ]
UNICEF: The State of the World's Children 1998 - Overviews the scale of malnutrition and causes, lists solutions, gives a scientific role, and provides statistical tables .
Vegfam - Feeds the hungry without exploiting animals.
Meta Description: [ VEGFAM feeds the hungry without exploiting animals ]
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