Jeff Bridges Jeff Bridges is an Academy Award-winning actor, a musician, a photographer, and a philanthropist.

After 25 years of successfully investing in local nonprofits and helping find the best approaches to eradicating poverty and hunger, Share Our Strength launched No Kid Hungry in 2010.

having a desire, craving, or need for food; feeling hunger.

Child hunger doesn't actually refer to a grumbling belly caused by a missed meal. Rather, it relates to a child experiencing food insecurity - going without food consistently and becoming undernourished or malnourished. In the context of global poverty, chronic undernourishment is synonymous with hunger.

Old English hunger, hungor "unease or pain caused by lack of food, debility from lack of food, craving appetite," also "famine, scarcity of food in a place," from Proto-Germanic *hungraz (source also of Old Frisian hunger, Old Saxon hungar, Old High German hungar, Old Norse hungr, German hunger, Dutch honger, Gothic ...

There are two primary hormones involved in hunger signals: ghrelin and leptin. When you haven't eaten for some time, the stomach (and other parts of the digestive tract, to a lesser degree) produces ghrelin, which increases appetite, gastric motility, and gastric acid secretion.

Aoy runs her family's stir-fried noodles restaurant in the old quarter of Bangkok. One day, she receives an invitation to leave the family business and join team Hunger, Thailand's number one luxury chef's table team led by a famous chef.Hunger / Film synopsis

Hunger is an uncomfortable or painful physical sensation caused by insufficient consumption of dietary energy. It becomes chronic when the person does not consume a sufficient amount of calories (dietary energy) on a regular basis to lead a normal, active and healthy life.

Synonyms of hungry (adj. eager. greedy. keen. ravenous. starved.

as in starving. feeling a desire or need for food John was still hungry after eating only a muffin for breakfast. starving. starved. famished.

The question "why do we feel hungry?" seems to be very obvious to answer. It is because we need to get nutrients to survive. Hunger is the motivation for us to be able to know that we need to get the nutrients in our body.

Hunger is also a pointed commentary on the class divide, how food is sustenance for some and decadence for others. “Made with love? An excuse made by those who can't escape poverty,” Chef Paul tells Aoy when she waxes eloquent on how food is about memory, emotions and legacy.