Blogpost 1: Hunger in different meanings

Everyone experiences hunger, of course. I for one always experience this. Not just me. If you're hungry what's your first move? Of course you would eat. what else will you do?

Food plays an important role in our life, this also gives us energy that we need to do all sorts of things. Without food we experience hunger. What is hunger? It is an uncomfortable feeling and is either caused by lack of food or skipping a meal, in other words, the human body is just like a car, it needs to be fueled every time you run out of gas. For me Hunger is normal for every human being living on this planet, i mean if you don't even get hungry you might not consider yourself a human being.  

But eating is not enough to satisfy hunger.We need to feed our body with all the nutrients we need. Remember,we are what we eat. I remembered reading in an article that says" if you eat instant food, your life will be instant too, if you eat junk  food your life will be junked too. So we should be aware of what we put in our stomach. So we should eat healthy and live a healthy life. There are also other meaning of hunger besides food. Some times we also hunger for success, fame , and fortune. There are also times that we hunger for love and attention and affection. In those cases, we don't need food. We need to nourish our mind with beautiful thoughts. We should give our precious time if we hunger for fame and fortune. We should work very hard if we hunger  for success. We need to show our love one how much they mean to us if we hunger for their love and affection.

Do you imagine yourself being deprived of food for a long period of time? If you were deprived of food for a long period of time your mind will be cloudy. You will not think straight and you will have a hard time making decisions. I for one experienced this kind of things that's why I don't want to experience it again. According to research There are 870 million people who are undernourished and probably hungry right now ( Link ) So how lucky are you? Lets talk about  Hunger here in the Philippines. Hunger here is just one of many problems in this Country. Many street children or even grown ups who experience poverty also experiences hunger, what do you think is the out come of that? Of course malnutrition or even worse death. In Other Countries hunger is also a burden to them specifically Africa. Hunger in the Philippines and Hunger in Africa are two different things, I guess its pretty much more complicated for Africa. Africa is considered one of the most poorest country in the world therefore being poor means no money, no money = no food, no food = Hunger.We can rate a country if it is a developing country by the number of people who are suffering hunger.The more people suffering from hunger the worst it can get.I remember my father telling me that during their time most artist in America like Madonna, Michael
Jackson, and most of the popular singer then took part by singing and doing an album for free just raise money so that they can help the people in  Africa. That's the famous USA for Africa. I can't think of a better solution to stop hunger. But I can suggest a thing or two to stop hunger in my own way. I will study hard and I will find a good job someday and I will help the less fortunate ones by saving a part of my salary and I will buy food and I give It to the street children.

 I found this one article in which it stated different types of hunger. It is entitled "The meaning of hunger" by Mary Desaulniers and the website is "ezinearticles" and it stated there, she explained and enumerated 3 types of hunger. The first one is real hunger:

"...There is the real hunger for sustenance that comes after a hard day's work. This hunger is necessary for our survival as it tells our body that it needs to replace the energy that has been expended."

Meaning when we are tired after a hard day's work or after going home from school, work, studying etc. we are technically hungry when tired. The energy in our body is very low. Energy is like the fuel to our bodies. When energy is low it means tat all the nutrients stored in our bodies are mostly gone due to working all day. The next one is:

"...Then there is the hunger we feel when we are bored-the Sunday afternoon variety that creeps into our bones like a bout of flu. You feel hungry even after a meal and you can't see to shake it off."

This one is pretty much experienced by everyone. That feeling when you're bored and there is nothing to do but eat and your body seems to go with it even if you're full and once you've eaten you would still crave for food. I don't know why but i think it's like a habit for us to eat even if we've already eaten lunch/breakfast/dinner when we have nothing to do. The last one is:

"...A more insidious form is the hunger we feel at the end of the day, a hunger that is ravenous, partly because we are hungry, but mostly because we are carrying ravages of the working world home and we have no other avenue to tame the beast."

Like the first definition of hunger, this is also related to after working. This meaning states that at the en o the day we are seriously hungry and it's correct. I experience this all the time. I get hungry when the day is about to end and i don't know why i don't get full. This type of hunger has bad effects:

"...This is the form of hunger that leads to unbridled bingeing and weight gain, and as long as the issues remain unsolved, the body will deposit layers of subcutaneous fat much like an armor to shield itself against what it feels to be an unjust grievance"

This is true in terms of the " WEIGHT GAIN" part. when we eat too much the result is getting fat. It also stated there that the fats in our body create layers and layers of fat like an armor. It stores the fats so that when we get hungry, the fats replace hunger as a substitute of food and boom,we get less hungry.