They visit a private hunger center monthly for three days' worth of free groceries, to help stretch the $60 a week they spend on food.

The feeding center or hunger center is responsible for the sensations that cause us to seek food.

The leptin breakthrough spurred efforts to manipulate the brain's hunger centers.

It's not clear exactly what stimulates your brain's hunger centers, possibly the lack of insulin or high glucagon levels.

He was founder of the Congressional Friends of Human Rights Monitors and the Congressional Hunger Center.

CB1 activity in the hunger centers in the hypothalamus increases the palatability of food when levels of a hunger hormone ghrelin increase prior to consuming a meal.

Stretch receptors work to inhibit appetite upon distention of the GI tract by sending signals along the vagus nerve afferent pathway and inhibiting the hunger center.

Visiting nursing homes, serving meals at hunger centers, raising money for various organizations in need, and many other activities show only a portion of how loving and giving these girls truly are.

"Based on Klinsky's actions and my sensations, it would seem the scent from the berries stimulates the hunger center of the brain, bringing up the food associations most pleasing to the individual.

They washed the digestive acid off, cut off what was left of my acid-soaked hair, encouraged the skin cells to regenerate in the damaged spots, made sure the hunger center in my brain was back to normal.

He is the past winner of the US Secretary of Agriculture's Honor Award for Superior Service and the Congressional Hunger Center's Mickey Leland National Hunger Fighter Award.