Seasonal hunger devastating and under-recognized
Most of the world's acute hunger and undernutrition occurs not in conflicts and natural disasters but in the annual "hunger season," according to an article published this week in open access journal PLoS Medicine . The hunger season is the time of year when the previous year's harvest stocks hav...JEWEL-OSCO(R) Hunger Relief Grant Program Helping to Fund Area Food Pantries & Soup Kitchens
Grant Application Deadline: August 14, 2009 ITASCA, Ill., June 10 /PRNewswire/ -- JEWEL-OSCO, a leading Midwest food and drug retailer, announced today that the company will begin accepting applications for its "Hunger Relief Grant Program," designed to fund the operational needs of food pan...White Castle Contributes $25,000 to Share Our Strength(R) to Help End Childhood Hunger in America
CHICAGO, May 15 /PRNewswire/ -- As a result of tough economic times, childhood hunger is on the rise. White Castle is making a $25,000 contribution to Share Our Strength(R), the leading national organization dedicated to ending childhood hunger in America. According to Share Our Strength estimat...Second Harvest Heartland Honors Hunger Hero David Nasby
Inaugural Director's Award presented at 2009 Dish benefit SAINT PAUL, Minn., May 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Second Harvest Heartland, the Upper Midwest's largest hunger-relief organization, has honored David Nasby, former vice president of the General Mills Foundation and founder of the nation's first...Nu Skin Child Hunger Relief Effort Surpasses 150 Million Meals
Nourish the Children(R) Promotes Sustained Food Donations PROVO, Utah, April 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Nu Skin Enterprises (NYSE: NUS ) today announced more than 150 million meals have been donated to malnourished and hungry children around the world through its innovative social enterpr...Ecolab to Support Second Harvest Heartland Hunger Relief Efforts
Donation will help the organization begin to overcome the 125-million meal shortfall in Minnesota SAINT PAUL, Minn., March 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Second Harvest Heartland, the Upper Midwest's leading voice on hunger relief, today announced that it is one of three Minnesota hunger-relief organizati...Regular Yoga Practice Is Associated With Mindful Eating
...weight. At the time, the researchers suspected that the weight-loss effect had more to do with increased body awareness, specifically a sensitivity to hunger and satiety than the physical activity of yoga practice itself. The follow-up study, published in the August issue of the Journal of the Americ...Kroger Recalls Peanut Butter Bakery Cookies and Select Cakes Due to Possible Health Risk
...s. Kroger also operates 41 food processing plants in the U.S. Headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, Kroger focuses its charitable efforts on supporting hunger relief, health and wellness initiatives, and local schools and grassroots organizations in the communities it serves. For more information about the ...St. Jude Finds More Than 100 Gene Variations Linked With Response to Leukemia Treatment
... Michael J. Borowitz (Johns Hopkins Medical Institute, Baltimore); William L. Carroll ( New York University Medical Center, New York); and Stephen P. hunger (The Children's Hospital and the University of Colorado Cancer Center, Aurora, Colo.). This study was supported by the National Institutes of ...Gene Abnormality Found to Predict Childhood Leukemia Relapse
...Chen I, Clifford RJ, Carroll WL, Reaman G, Bowman WP, Devidas M, Gerhard DS, Yang W, Relling MV, Shurtleff SA, Campana D, Borowitz MJ, Pui C, Smith M, hunger SP, Willman CL, Downing JR, and the Children's Oncology Group. Deletion of IKZF1 and Prognosis in Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. NEJM . Vol. 360, No...Sarah Palin, Dr. Siegal's Cookie Diet, and John McCain Top AOL Hot Searches List on August 29th
...ted in 1975 by the Cookie Doctor(TM), renowned physician, author, and weight loss expert Sanford Siegal, D.O., M.D., in order to control his patients' hunger and enable them to faithfully adhere to the 800 calorie-a-day diet that he prescribes them in his South Florida medical practice, Siegal Medical Group...Animals That Cyclone Survivors Depend on Need Help Now
...treatment in the form of antibiotics, vaccinations and de-worming. "WSPA works to align animal welfare and humanitarian agendas to reduce poverty, hunger and disease in humans. Equally, by complimenting humanitarian efforts in this way we increase the number of animals we protect," said Russell. For...Fatty foods -- not empty stomach -- fire up hunger hormone
CINCINNATINew research led by the University of Cincinnati (UC) suggests that the hunger hormone ghrelin is activated by fats from the foods we eatnot those made in the bodyin order to optimize nutrient metabolism and promote the storage of body fat. The findings, the study's author says, turn ...Sweet potato shines as new promise for small enterprise and hunger relief in developing countries
WASHINGTON, DC -- Sweetpotatoes, often misunderstood and underrated, are receiving new attention as a life-saving food crop in developing countries. According to the International Potato Center ( www.cipotato.org ), more than 95 percent of the global sweetpotato crop is grown in developing coun...Norman Borlaug, Rob Horsch to keynote world hunger lecture
Nobel Peace Prize recipient Norman Borlaug and Rob Horsch of the Gates Foundation will discuss the challenges of developing agricultural technologies to feed the world to kick off the International Annual Meetings of the American Society of Agronomy (ASA), Crop Science Society of America (CSSA), a...Researchers team up to provide new hope for childhood hunger
ST. LOUIS, MO, July 28, 2009 A St. Louis-based team of plant and physician-scientists with a vision of eradicating malnutrition throughout the developing world today announced the formation of the Global Harvest Alliance (GHA), a humanitarian effort involving St. Louis Children's Hospital, The Don...Drinking milk in the morning may help stave off lunchtime hunger
Now there's a new reason for the weight-conscious to drink fat free milk at breakfast time, suggests a new study published in the July issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition . Researchers in Australia found that drinking fat free milk in the morning helped increase satiety, or a feel...Super-sized cassava plants may help fight hunger in Africa
In a recent study, genetically modified cassava plants produced roots that were more than two-and-a-half times the size of normal cassava roots. The findings could help ease hunger in many countries where people rely heavily on the cassava plant (Manihot esculenta) as a primary food source, said ...World's pledge to halve hunger by 2015 looks like empty promise
Almost 200 countries agreed in 1990 to cut worldwide hunger in half by 2015. That commitment is now looking like an empty promise -- all talk and no action -- according to a Cornell University expert on world hunger. If business proceeds as usual, just as many people will be hungry in the world -...Early rice harvests ease annual famine in Bangladesh
...more time to grow a second crop to provide desperately needed food and ease hunger during monga -- the hunger months. Monga is a yearly famine that occurs in northwest Bangladesh fro...Study highlights massive imbalances in global fertilizer use
...duction is paramount, added co-author G. Philip Robertson, a professor of crop and soil sciences at Michigan State University. "Avoiding the misery of hunger is and should be a global human priority," Robertson said. "But we should also find ways to do this without sacrificing other key aspects of human wel...NAU discovery could help feed millions
... When scientist Loretta Mayer set out to alleviate diseases associated with menopause, she didn't realize her work could lead to addressing world hunger and feeding hundreds of millions of people. The Northern Arizona University researcher and her colleagues at NAU and the University of Arizona iden...Big Pharma's continued hunger and search for new products
In our last encounter, we reviewed the list of the leading Big Pharma companies of 2005. I promised you, at that time, that we would look at some of the leading pharmaceuticals products and deals of 2005. Let's get to it: Leading Global Pharmaceutical Products Product/Company Dise...DuPont Leader: Agriculture is Up to Global Productivity Challenge
... & Agricultural Policy Conference, Niebur said that emerging opportunities for the use of biomass to replace petroleum coupled with the specter of hunger have raised questions about whether farmers can produce enough grain to feed the world and meet the demand for biofuels and biomaterials . &qu...Oberon FMR Wins Top Prize at BioWest 2008 Venture Showcase Competition
...nson, the company is seeking funding from investors "who have an interest in sustainability, aquaculture, and social issues associated with world hunger and eco-friendly means of waste management." Given the increasingly high cost to dispose of biosolids generated during traditional wastewater tr...Biotech Crops Experience Remarkable Dozen Years of Double-Digit Growth
...ps. If we are to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) of cutting hunger and poverty in half by 2015, biotech crops must play an even bigger role in...ternational network of centers designed to contribute to the alleviation of hunger and poverty by sharing knowledge and crop biotechnology applications. Clive...The New Green Revolution offers hope to poor farmers and poor consumers
... the people in the world grow what they eat. Despite the successes of the Green Revolution that began in the 1960s, millions of them still suffer from hunger and lack of nutrition. The reasons are many, including first world farm subsidies that undercut poor farmers and developing world governments that imp...Technology regulation spurred by a mix of science and politics
...e stringent regulation later. Thats despite the latest United Nations report clearly stating that biotechnology is an important tool in fighting world hunger and solving environmental problems. A report issued by the National Academy of Sciences said theres no evidence that milk or meat from cloned ani...The worldwide growth of ag biotech
...ing plants to produce cheaper pharmaceuticals was a good reason to use this technology, while 52% said using biotech to produce cheaper food to reduce hunger was a good reason. If we looked at the typical European consumer, we would see a high percentage skewed against the use of biotech crops, yet even ...Biotech crops gaining acceptance, but their full promise has yet to be fulfilled
... the people in the world grow what they eat. Despite the successes of the Green Revolution that began in the 1960s, millions of them still suffer from hunger and lack of nutrition. The reasons are many, including first-world farm subsidies that undercut poor farmers and developing world governments that imp...Clinton says world needs biofuels, GM crops, and more answers
...c engineering and say that it's consistent with support of organic, healthy foods. Without looking at notes, Clinton rolled out statistics on world hunger and the industrialized world's problems with obesity and type-II diabetes formerly known as adult-onset diabetes, he emphasized, but now affecting ...