Examples of hunger

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While losing weight, hunger was much less than usual.
They were practically all males in each case owing to the absence of hunger.
Insecticides still have a very significant role to play in the alleviation of hunger and improvement of health.
There may be an indirect effect, however, via the number of hunger-related deaths resulting from the increase in the feeding rate with increasing temperature.
There could, however, be an indirect effect via, for example, hunger-related deaths.
When the writer saw them, they were suffering not a little from hunger.
The hunger is my subjective experience of being (objectively) motivated to search for food.
In 1999-2000, the collective experience of hunger went through important and positive changes : smoother seasonal weight profiles for many and thinness for few.
Individuals were first surveyed at the presumed peak of hunger, namely at the onset of the 1999 rainy season.
If the latter, then hunger pangs must be some sort of illusion, a stand-in for states we cannot access consciously.
Researchers recorded birth cries, pain cries (during vaccination), hunger cries (4 hours after feeding), and pleasure cries (after feeding).
The accuracies in identifying birth, pain, hunger, and pleasure cries were 6 48%, 63%, 68%, and 85%, respectively (grand mean 6%).
Ending world hunger: the promise of biotechnology and the threat of antiscience zealotry.
The three-factor eating questionnaire to measure dietary restraint, disinhibition and hunger.
In the third regression model, the analysis was restricted to deaths that were reported as being due to hunger.
The category 'other' includes all other causes of death except those attributed to illness or hunger.
She eventually wanders off and leaves the calf alone which causes him to ' weep' incessantly from hunger and loneliness.
He carried sensitivity to the health and living conditions of the urban poor into his investigations of their work and hunger.
They can express their own hunger, but they cannot have a conversation about the problem of hunger while their own bellies are full.
The parent can use the weight, hunger, age, or fixed position of each chick in the nest when picking which one to feed.
Every compound had its own temporal sequence of seasonal hunger.
Meanwhile, views about the prevalence of seasonal hunger were contradictory.
Selective attention to food-related stimuli in hunger : are attentional biases specific to emotional and psychopathological states, or are they also found in normal drive states ?
There was a significant increase in the susceptibility of the hunger-selected fly groups.
A society which celebrates individual success and rewards wealth will inevitably create hunger.
As a result, people today have a ravenous hunger for timely, accurate, and lively news, and the media are rushing to satisfy it.
As expected, respondents attributed many deaths in 1984-85 to hunger.
History teaches us that all those different motivations can be contained in just one word: hunger.
The writer is very aware that the burden of hunger and misery falls most heavily on the poor.
The absence of internal constraints, the insatiable hunger of the system for novelty translate into a powerful drive to secure both.
Such conflict can also destroy harvests and create hunger.
Alternatively, the" lost object" is yearned and hungered for even more.
In the poem, however, the word "seemed" qualifies the image of two people blending into a perfect whole: spiritual union cannot satisfy the body's hungers.
In this vision of unity one loves and obeys with the same instinctive impulse as one thirsts or hungers.
Consequently, the comic talents often overcompensate for their low esteem by hungering after completely humourless projects to prove their seriousness.
To see truly and feel justly with the same instinctive impulse as one hungers or thirsts is to make of the demands of the superego, libidinal drives.
Another difference between the dustbathing and hunger systems is that the central mechanism for hunger does not immediately control the motor mechanisms of the system.
Whatever the 'burning ague' was, it was surely hosted by hunger.
If there are problems of malnutrition and hunger, these can be tackled at source by attempts to produce more food.
His hunger turns my creativity, in spite of both of us, into an obligation.
They are inclined to forget that holists, when served individualist explanations, are assailed by a like hunger.
However, those who campaign for debt relief, increased aid and direct budgetary support to solve the challenges of poverty and hunger, should take note.
They died by the thousand of hunger and typhus.
If everyone who wants to see an end to poverty, hunger and suffering speaks out, the noise will be deafening.
Instead, as mentioned above, 800 million people suffer from chronic hunger.
There must be a true internalization that nonhuman animals feel pain, experience hunger, and react to most stimuli as we humans do.
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