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Hunger - Research News and Information
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Definition of 'Hunger'The desire for FOOD generated by a sensation arising from the lack of food in the STOMACH. Common names: Hunger |
28 Sep 2008 
BACKGROUND: Hunger strike is a very serious entity which may lead to severe diseases and death. AIMS: The aim of this study is to document the clinical, neurophysiological, neuroradiological, and neuropsychological aspects of prolonged hunger ... Read more...
30 Aug 2008 Youth, 9-18 years (n = 202), living in homeless shelters in Minneapolis, Minnesota, were assessed for height, weight, dietary intake, and perceptions of food insecurity. Perceptions of food security were measured by asking youth to respond to the ... Read more...
Hospital inpatients' experiences of access to food: a qualitative interview and observational study.
30 Aug 2008 BACKGROUND: Hospital surveys indicate that overall patients are satisfied with hospital food. However undernutrition is common and associated with a number of negative clinical outcomes. There is little information regarding food access from the ... Read more...
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Latest indexed articles for 'Hunger'
These are the very latest articles for this heading:
- How many people are really hungry?
16 Oct 2008 - The impact of prolonged hunger strike: clinical and laboratory aspects of twenty-five hunger strikers. 28 Sep 2008
- Meetings that changed the world: Bellagio 1969: The green revolution. 23 Sep 2008
- Can slow food feed the world? 13 Sep 2008
- Safety in numbers. How community health workers are helping fight killer diseases in the developing world. 6 Sep 2008
- Dietary intake, overweight status, and perceptions of food insecurity among homeless Minnesotan youth. 30 Aug 2008
- Hospital inpatients' experiences of access to food: a qualitative interview and observational study. 30 Aug 2008
- Millennium goals at the midpoint. Overdue investments from rich nations could still transform Africa by 2015. 30 Jul 2008
- Anorexia nervosa: selective processing of food-related word and pictorial stimuli in recognition and free recall tests. 29 Jun 2008
- Neurophysiological pathways to obesity: below awareness and beyond individual control.
29 Jun 2008 - Eating slowly led to decreases in energy intake within meals in healthy women. 29 Jun 2008
- Liquid and solid meal replacement products differentially affect postprandial appetite and food intake in older adults. 29 Jun 2008
- Discontinuation of tube feeding in young children by hunger provocation. 29 Jun 2008
- Food insecurity in Canada: considerations for monitoring. 29 Jun 2008
- Effect of age on the dynamics of acylated ghrelin in fasting conditions and in response to a meal. 29 Jun 2008
- Strategic adjustment of begging effort by banded mongoose pups. 5 Jun 2008
- What we should be saying - and doing - about undernutrition. 30 May 2008
- Undernutrition is undernourished. 30 May 2008
- [Measuring patient satisfaction in an emergency unit of a Swiss university hospital: occurrence of anxiety, insecurity, worry, pain, dyspnoea, nausea, thirst and hunger, and their correlation with patient satisfaction (part 2)] 30 May 2008
- Surging food prices and global stability. 30 May 2008
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Technical information about 'Hunger'
Definition: The desire for FOOD generated by a sensation arising from the lack of food in the STOMACH.
Descriptor UI: D006815
Alternative terms: Hunger;
Allowable Qualifiers: classification; drug effects; physiology; radiation effects; ethnology;
Tree Number: F01.658.293.391; G07.610.390; G10.261.390;