Word: hungerers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
When a man is physically overworked to the limits of endurance, says Mayer, he loses appetite, eats less and loses weight. Reason: the hunger center cannot keep up with the body's energy output. Conversely, if a man sits at a desk all day, he may stay hungry. One possible reason: messages to the satiety center do not get through. This phenomenon has long been exploited by farmers who keep animals cooped up to fatten them...
...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...
...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...