Word: hungering
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...assumption that there is a straight-line relationship between energy expenditure and appetite is an over simplification, says Dr. Mayer. Appetite is controlled by two parts of the brain's hypothalamus. One is a hunger center, the other a satiety center. When energy output is in the middle range, the centers balance neatly, switching one another on and off. But not so at the ends of the activity scale...
...offshoot of the clay-eating habit still prevalent among some Southern Negroes. Those who migrate North sometimes receive packages of clay (known as "Mississippi Mud" in Los Angeles) mailed by friends back home, but most switch to laundry starch, which is easier to obtain and apparently satisfies the same hunger...
...spokesman for the Senate Subcommittee on Manpower, Employment, and Poverty said yesterday there was "no evidence" that the Administration would take action to alleviate severe hunger in Mississippi...
...confronted Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman and other officials with demands for immediate relief measures. Sen. Jacob Javits (R-N.Y.) asked that a state of emergency be declared in Mississippi. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy (D-N.Y.) called for a Public Health Service inquiry into the extent of hunger in the United States...
...hearings, the sub-committee asked the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, the Office of Economic Opportunity, and the Dept. of Agriculture to file a report within 30 days stating "what action they have taken to determine the extent of hunger in this country and what kind of legislation should be adopted to alleviate it," the subcommittee spokesman said...