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Health & Wellness News tagged with hunger

Sticker Shock at the Supermarket: Food Prices Poised to Rise
Health & Wellness  (tags: nutrition, food prices, society, hunger, health )

Lone
- 47 days ago - dailyfinance.com
If there's any silver lining to a recession -- albeit a thin one -- it's that consumer prices typically go down. Make no mistake, deflation is a sign of a sick economy, but at least the net effect of cheaper prices for the basic necessities -- food,
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'Superfood' Promoted on Oprah's Site Robs Amazon Poor of Staple
Health & Wellness  (tags: food, environment, nutrition, hunger, fad )

Elainna
- 197 days ago - bloomberg.com
Rising U.S. sales of acai, a purple Amazon berry promoted as a "superfood" on Oprah Winfrey's Web site, are depriving Brazilian jungle dwellers of a protein-rich nutrient they've relied on for generations.
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Petition 'FOOD Vs FEED' to the UN (EVANA)
Health & Wellness  (tags: nutritious food, hunger, vegetarianism )

Cristina
- 469 days ago - evana.org
An appeal to the United Nations and its agencies to channel available food resources to needy people and not to farm animals
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Behind the Scenes at a Food Riot
Health & Wellness  (tags: Raj Patel, starvation, surfism, capitalism, food crisis, Food Safety, family, health, wealthy, modern problem, hunger, G8, warning, society, prevention, nutrition, illness, food, diet )

Gregory
- 499 days ago - stuffedandstarved.org
VIDEO:The Take -- is well worth watching, has turned his attention to the struggles around rice in Haiti. Here, in seventeen minutes, is one of the best treatments of the recent food riots in Haiti, and their long history.
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Take Action to Give People Food
Health & Wellness  (tags: eat, hunger )


- 709 days ago - friendsofwfp.org
At this site you can call senators and tell them to expand the McGovern Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program. Watch the public service announcements on the site about feeding the hungry. Take the banner codes to advertise.
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Cholera-Hit Indians 'Face Hunger'
Health & Wellness  (tags: India, Orissa, cholera, diarrhoea, outbreak, hunger, starvation )

Ingeborg
- 816 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Villagers are facing starvation in a tribal area of eastern India where an outbreak of cholera has killed scores of people in recent weeks. The BBC visited affected districts in Orissa state and found people with no food, surviving on leaves.
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