: intended or serving to prevent or alleviate hunger
anti-hunger programs
an anti-hunger organization
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Key Takeaways Levels of Lac-Phe, an anti-hunger molecule, increase after taking the diabetes drug metformin.
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Stephanie Brown, Verywell Health, 4 Apr. 2024
Perhaps most important, anti-hunger programs need to be sustained, even when the need to address hunger appears less urgent.
—Homi Kharas, Foreign Affairs, 16 June 2015
Democrats requested additional funding for the federal anti-hunger program for low-income women, infants and children, known as WIC.
—Marianna Sotomayor, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2024
Metro Caring, an anti-hunger organization featuring a fresh food market downtown, saw nearly 5,000 visits in January 2024, almost double the number recorded in the same month a year prior, said the organization’s Communications & Marketing Specialist Brandon McKinley.
—Michael Braithwaite, The Denver Post, 23 Feb. 2024
According to the Food and Research Action Center, an anti-hunger nonprofit, food insecurity is most pervasive and deepest in rural areas, and is highest in the South and Midwestern states.
—Patricia Lopez, The Mercury News, 9 Feb. 2024
Hunger could be worsened further if the government shutdown narrowly avoided in September comes to pass in November, anti-hunger groups warn.
—Elizabeth Chuck, NBC News, 25 Oct. 2023
The United Nations World Food Programme is the world's largest and most important anti-hunger agency providing meals to millions of hungry and starving people every day.
—ABC News, 17 Sep. 2023
The number of children who received free summer lunches in 2022 dropped dramatically compared to the year prior, according to a new report from anti-hunger advocacy organization Food Research & Action Center.
—Elizabeth Chuck, NBC News, 25 July 2023
Stephanie Brown, Verywell Health, 4 Apr. 2024
Perhaps most important, anti-hunger programs need to be sustained, even when the need to address hunger appears less urgent.
—Homi Kharas, Foreign Affairs, 16 June 2015
Democrats requested additional funding for the federal anti-hunger program for low-income women, infants and children, known as WIC.
—Marianna Sotomayor, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2024
Metro Caring, an anti-hunger organization featuring a fresh food market downtown, saw nearly 5,000 visits in January 2024, almost double the number recorded in the same month a year prior, said the organization’s Communications & Marketing Specialist Brandon McKinley.
—Michael Braithwaite, The Denver Post, 23 Feb. 2024
According to the Food and Research Action Center, an anti-hunger nonprofit, food insecurity is most pervasive and deepest in rural areas, and is highest in the South and Midwestern states.
—Patricia Lopez, The Mercury News, 9 Feb. 2024
Hunger could be worsened further if the government shutdown narrowly avoided in September comes to pass in November, anti-hunger groups warn.
—Elizabeth Chuck, NBC News, 25 Oct. 2023
The United Nations World Food Programme is the world's largest and most important anti-hunger agency providing meals to millions of hungry and starving people every day.
—ABC News, 17 Sep. 2023
The number of children who received free summer lunches in 2022 dropped dramatically compared to the year prior, according to a new report from anti-hunger advocacy organization Food Research & Action Center.
—Elizabeth Chuck, NBC News, 25 July 2023
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