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Hunger in America

Christina Weiss Lurie | Posted 05.04.2012

Read More: Food Insecurity, Starvation, Sergio, Hungry in America, Inside Job, American Hunger, Food Deserts, Hunger in America, Impact News
Christina Weiss Lurie

I should have been prepared for the notion that hunger was prevalent here in the United States, but I wasn't. I was shocked to hear that a First World country had such an ignominious reality prevalent across all 50 states.

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FOUND: Skeletal Remains May Be 10-Year-Old Boy Allegedly Starved By Parents

AP | Posted 04.25.2012

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DALLAS — A medical examiner believes skeletal remains found in a rural creek south of Dallas are those of a 10-year-old boy who was allegedly st...

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Feeding Tube Diet: Shut Up, and Eat

Greg Archer | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Starvation, Feeding Tube, Diets, Anorexia, Dieting, Health, Healthy Diet, Diet and Nutrition, Bulimia, Weight Loss, Healthy Living Health News, Healthy Living News
Greg Archer

The recent news about a new diet fad among brides-to-be has generated a flood of headlines and outrage.

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Weight Loss: What's the Point?

Lisa Turner | Posted 04.22.2012

Read More: Starvation, Hunger, World Hunger, Dieting, Nutrition, Spirituality and Nutrition, Women Body Image, Self Esteem, Men Body Image, Weight Loss, Self Image, Emotional Wellness, Body Image, Diet and Nutrition, Girls Body Image, Healthy Living News
Lisa Turner

What would happen if, instead of worrying about what you had for breakfast, you focused instead on becoming exquisitely comfortable with who you are as a person? Instead of scrutinizing yourself in the mirror, looking for every bump and bulge, you turned your gaze inward?

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Boy 'Ate His Own Feces' While Parents Starved Him To Death

The Huffington Post | Hilary Tuttle | Posted 06.02.2012

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Dallas police have arrested a father and stepmother for allegedly starving their son to death almost a year ago. Aaron and Elizabeth Ramsey were ar...

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Desolation Row: Five Pictures of the Future in a Paul Ryan/Mitt Romney America

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: Mitt Romney, Starvation, Hunger, Fritz Lang, Budget, h.g. Wells, Paul Ryan, Disease, Congress, 2012 Election, Elections 2012, 112th Congress, Paul Ryan Endorsement, Politics News
Richard (RJ) Eskow

Economic radical Paul Ryan has endorsed Mitt Romney, Romney's embraced the Ryan budget, and the House Republicans have voted to enact the Romney/Ryan vision of the future into law. Yet an eerie silence has settled over the vision itself.

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Food Security

Jesse Seaver | Posted 05.20.2012

Read More: Food Donations, Starvation, Volunteering for the Hungry, Helping the Hungry, Donating to the Hungry, Donating Food, Volunteering Food Kitchen, Food Pantries, Food Kitchen, Food Insecurity, Spring Into Action, Impact News
Jesse Seaver

When we're hungry, we expect to eat. In fact, we expect to be able to eat whatever we want. Eating when we are hungry -- or, as many of us like to say, when we are "starving" -- is easily taken for granted.

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Cara Santa Maria

TALK NERDY TO ME: Why Didn't This Man Freeze To Death?

HuffingtonPost.com | Cara Santa Maria | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Trapped in a Car, Starvation, Bert Yankielun, Video, Freezing, Peter Skyllberg, Talk Nerdy to Me, Cara Santa Maria, Hibernation, Survival, Igloo Effect, Swedish Man, Science News

2012-02-23-Screenshot20120223at9.28.59AM.jpgDespite the freezing temperatures, snow can actually offer crucial ingredients for survival.

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Man Survives Two Months In Snow-Covered Car

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 02.21.2012

Read More: Starvation, Video, Snow Stranding, Winter Starvation, Igloo, Winter Stranding, Winter Hibernation, Stranded in Snow, Winter, Hibernation, Good News News

Peter Skyllberg, a 44-year-old man from Sweden, survived two months trapped in his snow-covered car due to a "natural igloo" that formed from the air ...

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Wisconsin Couple Starved Child, Forced Her To Eat Feces: Cops

AP | By CARRIE ANTLFINGER | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Couple Arrested for Abusing 15-Year-Old Daughter, Starvation, Child Neglect, Video, Wisconsin, Child Abuse, Cps, Wisconsin Crime, Crime News

MILWAUKEE -- A severely malnourished Wisconsin teenager found walking barefoot in pajamas outside in the cold last week had been forced to stay in an ...

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The American Deficit: Where Do We Go From Here?

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 03.14.2012

Read More: Poverty, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Budget Cuts, Budget, Hunger in America, Martin Luther King Jr., Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Budget Deficit, Federal Budget, Starvation, Deficit, Hunger, Federal Budget Deficit, Martin Luther King, Homelessness, Food, Where Do We Go From Here, Poor, Enough to Spare, Poverty in America, Black Voices News
Marian Wright Edelman

As another political season gets into full swing in the United States, a new crop of candidates are making a lot of promises about their competing visions of America. But how many TV debates are focusing on whether America is a compassionate nation?

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Remembering a Poor Baby

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 02.20.2012

Read More: Starvation, Child Poverty, Poor, Hunger, Poverty, Beat the Odds, Homelessness, Impact News
Marian Wright Edelman

When Britany Lewis was born, no trumpets and glad tidings or even balloons and baby showers greeted her arrival. She was just another poor baby. Brita...

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Wampanoags and Peanut Farmers

Mark Moore | Posted 01.23.2012

Read More: Starvation, Usaid, Plymouth Colony, Mana, Horn of Africa, Thanksgiving, Pilgrims, Unicef, Peanuts, Impact News
Mark Moore

This year's Thanksgiving celebration will take place as millions of children face starvation in the Horn of Africa and in developing nations around the world. And I am wondering if we will be as generous as the Wampanoags.

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Cops: Couple Starved Infant Daughter

AP | By TODD RICHMOND | Posted 11.18.2011

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MADISON, Wis. -- A Wisconsin couple who were worried that their infant daughter would become obese starved her for months, causing the girl to gain ju...

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Women Own 1% of the World's Property -- Occupy That

Soraya Chemaly | Posted 01.04.2012

Read More: Maternal Death, Equality, Women, Gender Bias, Violence Against Women, Poverty, Equity, Pay Equity, We Are Equals, Food Scarcity, Feminization of Poverty, Occupy Wall Street, Child Brides, Male Rights Movement, Girl Slaves, Patriarchy, Property, Gender, Starvation, Girl Effect, Oprah Winfrey, Half the Sky, Property Rights, Sex Slaves, Sexism, Slavery, Forbes, Stoning, Women News
Soraya Chemaly

How much poorer do we want women to get in the world? It's really hard to imagine. Despite the successes of feminists during the past century, even in the U.S. we have a persistent and growing feminization of poverty.

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In the Famine Zone, Preventing History From Repeating Itself

Margaret Aguirre | Posted 11.09.2011

Read More: Drought Crisis, Somalia, Ethiopia, Humanitarian, Ngo, Famine, Starvation, World Hunger, Impact News
Margaret Aguirre

I was in Ethiopia during the "global food crisis" in 2008, and witnessed a tremendous amount of starvation, pain and suffering. And yet, that crisis was not nearly as severe as what's happening today.

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A "Hidden Emergency" in Plain Sight: Nairobi's Slums in Freefall

Elizabeth Wright | Posted 10.16.2011

Read More: Kenya, Nairobi, Starvation, Drought, Poverty, Humanitarian, Slums, Impact News
Elizabeth Wright

In Kenya's capital city of Nairobi, two-thirds of the population live far below the poverty line in sprawling urban slums. Hunger is an everyday reality here.

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Statistical Numbing: Why Millions Can Die, and We Don't Care

David Ropeik | Posted 10.15.2011

Read More: Starvation, Africa, Famine, Somalia, Statistics, Horn of Africa Drought, Somalia Famine, Understanding Statistics, Horn of Africa Famine, Somalia Drought, Hunger, World News
David Ropeik

The profound and sobering truth is that our perceptions are an inextricable blend of reason and subjective emotion. One death will always move us more than one million.

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Famine's Legacies

Gerry Kearns | Posted 01.14.2012

Read More: Starvation, Somalia, Irish Famine, Famine, UK News
Gerry Kearns

David Nally's insightful post on historical famine studies alerts us to the need to see immediate crises in the context of longer-term causes (see als...

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Overcoming Hunger: Together We Can Empower Change

Djimon Hounsou | Posted 08.21.2011

Read More: Starvation, Hunger, Food Prices, World Hunger, World News
Djimon Hounsou

In a world that already produces more than enough food for everyone, almost a billion people, one in seven of us, go to bed hungry every night. Meanwhile, up to half of all food the world produces goes to waste.

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Mother In Religious Cult Pleads Not Guilty To Starving Child To Death

AP | SAMANTHA HENRY | Posted 08.02.2011

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NEWARK, N.J. — Two women pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges of child endangerment a week after an 8-year-old was found dead in their apartm...

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As Food Prices Rise, Many Go Hungry

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Starvation, Community Market Food Bank, Food Research and Action Center, Hunger, Poverty, Food Price Index, Food Banks, Rising Food Prices, U.S. Department of Labor, Impact News

"Global food prices continue to rise," begins a recent report by the World Bank. Between October 2010 and January 2011, the Bank's food price index i...

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Lent: Hungering For Spirit

Donna Henes | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Starvation, Hunger, Purification, Religious Fasting, Spiritual Practice, Endurance, Fasting, Lent, Penitence, Lent Fasting, Abstinence, Spirituality, Atonement, Fasting Lent, Healthy Living News
Donna Henes

Over time and through tribulation, people have learned to eat their hunger -- to exploit a period of foodlessness for the invaluable experience it can offer.

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Let's Nix the 'Black Swan' Diet

Adia Colar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Purging, Natalie Portman Mila Kunis, Starvation, Workout, Overexercise, Self-Injury, Black Swan Diet, Natalie Portman Black Swan, Media, Black Swan, Mila Kunis Black Swan, Self-Harm, Bingeing, Black Swan Workout, Eating Disorder, Diet, Dieting, Weight Loss, Home News
Adia Colar

The media should in no way promote this unhealthy diet, even in moderation, because it is founded on an unhealthy lifestyle that centers around unhealthy behaviors.

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The Second Foot Falls on the Aquarium Trade in Maui County

Robert Wintner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hawaii, Starvation, Animal Cruelty, Green-Wash, Maui, Sustainable, New England, Aquarium, Michael Tlusty, Maui County Council, Finning, Maui Ocean Center, Green News
Robert Wintner

Maui County Council again challenged the largest wildlife exporter in Hawaii Friday, with a new law requiring humane treatment of reef fish captured for the aquarium trade.

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