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<div id="siteSub" class="noprint">From Wikiquote</div> </div> <div id="contentSub"><div id="mw-content-subtitle"></div></div> <div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starvation" class="extiw" title="w:Starvation">Starvation</a></b> is a severe deficiency in caloric <a href="/wiki/Energy" title="Energy">energy</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutrient" class="extiw" title="w:Nutrient">nutrient</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin" class="extiw" title="w:Vitamin">vitamin</a> intake. It is the most extreme form of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malnutrition" class="extiw" title="w:Malnutrition">malnutrition</a>. The term inanition refers to the symptoms and effects of starvation. According to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Health_Organization" class="extiw" title="w:World Health Organization">World Health Organization</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunger" class="extiw" title="w:Hunger">hunger</a> is the single gravest threat to the <a href="/wiki/World" title="World">world</a>'s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_health" class="extiw" title="w:Public health">public health</a>. The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Health_Organization" class="extiw" title="w:World Health Organization">WHO</a> also states that malnutrition is by far the biggest contributor to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_mortality" class="extiw" title="w:Child mortality">child mortality</a>, present in half of all cases. </p> <div role="navigation" style="margin-left: 2em;"> <p>Arranged alphabetically by author or source:<br /><a href="#A">A</a> · <a href="#B">B</a> · <a href="#C">C</a> · <a href="#D">D</a> · <a href="#E">E</a> · <a href="#F">F</a> · <a href="#G">G</a> · <a href="#H">H</a> · <a href="#I">I</a> · <a href="#J">J</a> · <a href="#K">K</a> · <a href="#L">L</a> · <a href="#M">M</a> · <a href="#N">N</a> · <a href="#O">O</a> · <a href="#P">P</a> · <a href="#Q">Q</a> · <a href="#R">R</a> · <a href="#S">S</a> · <a href="#T">T</a> · <a href="#U">U</a> · <a href="#V">V</a> · <a href="#W">W</a> · <a href="#X">X</a> · <a href="#Y">Y</a> · <a href="#Z">Z</a> · <a href="#Anonymous">Anonymous</a> · <a href="#See_also">See also</a> · <a href="#External_links">External links</a> </p> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="A">A</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Starvation&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: A"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The mighty <a href="/wiki/Peril" class="mw-redirect" title="Peril">peril</a> is the entire starvation of the country [India] by foreign exploiters and its complete and hopeless dependence on aliens for almost all articles of common use. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sri_Aurobindo" title="Sri Aurobindo">Sri Aurobindo</a>, in <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.co.in/books?id=rXiXje2B46QC&pg=PA263&lpg=PA263">Sri Aurobindo Ghose</a></i> (1 January 1993), p. 263</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>My whole <a href="/wiki/Life" title="Life">life</a> has been a struggle with hard realities, from hardships, starvation in <a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a> and constant and fierce difficulties to the far greater difficulties continually cropping up here in <a href="/wiki/Pondicherry" class="mw-redirect" title="Pondicherry">Pondicherry</a>, external and internal. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sri_Aurobindo" title="Sri Aurobindo">Sri Aurobindo</a>, in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sriaurobindoashram.org/ashram/sriauro/on_himself.php">Sri Aurobindo on Himself</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="B">B</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Starvation&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: B"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Famine_in_India_Natives_Waiting_for_Relief_in_Bangalore.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Famine_in_India_Natives_Waiting_for_Relief_in_Bangalore.jpg/220px-Famine_in_India_Natives_Waiting_for_Relief_in_Bangalore.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="260" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Famine_in_India_Natives_Waiting_for_Relief_in_Bangalore.jpg/330px-Famine_in_India_Natives_Waiting_for_Relief_in_Bangalore.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Famine_in_India_Natives_Waiting_for_Relief_in_Bangalore.jpg/440px-Famine_in_India_Natives_Waiting_for_Relief_in_Bangalore.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2483" data-file-height="2931" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Annie_Besant" title="Annie Besant">Annie Besant</a>: You see somewhere a man who is starving and if you misunderstand <a href="/wiki/Karma" title="Karma">karma</a> — as too many of you do, to the shame of <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a>, in a land where this teaching is of immemorial <a href="/wiki/Antiquity" title="Antiquity">antiquity</a> — you turn aside from that starving man and say that it is his karma to starve and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/perish" class="extiw" title="w:perish">perish</a>; in those hardened <a href="/wiki/Heart" title="Heart">heart</a> of yours you use the will of <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a> as a cover for your lack of <a href="/wiki/Love" title="Love">love</a>.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Alhambra_Decree.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Alhambra_Decree.jpg/220px-Alhambra_Decree.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="307" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Alhambra_Decree.jpg/330px-Alhambra_Decree.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Alhambra_Decree.jpg/440px-Alhambra_Decree.jpg 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="698" /></a><figcaption>Annie Besant: Who can count the hundreds and thousands driven out from home, the broken families, the miseries, the <a href="/wiki/Poverty" title="Poverty">poverty</a>, and starvation intolerable, which marked the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion" class="extiw" title="w:Expulsion">expulsion</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Jews" class="mw-redirect" title="Jews">Jews</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Moors" title="Moors">Moors</a> from <a href="/wiki/Spain" title="Spain">Spain</a>.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:1933_Nobel_Peace_Prize_awarded_to_Norman_Angell.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/1933_Nobel_Peace_Prize_awarded_to_Norman_Angell.JPG/220px-1933_Nobel_Peace_Prize_awarded_to_Norman_Angell.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="219" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/1933_Nobel_Peace_Prize_awarded_to_Norman_Angell.JPG/330px-1933_Nobel_Peace_Prize_awarded_to_Norman_Angell.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/1933_Nobel_Peace_Prize_awarded_to_Norman_Angell.JPG/440px-1933_Nobel_Peace_Prize_awarded_to_Norman_Angell.JPG 2x" data-file-width="845" data-file-height="840" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/David_Beasley" title="David Beasley">David Beasley</a>: I don’t go to bed at night thinking about the children we saved; I go to bed weeping over the children we could not save. And when we don’t have enough money nor the access we need, we have to decide which children eat and which children do not eat, which children live, which children die. How would you like that job? Please, don’t ask us to choose who lives and who dies. In the spirit of Alfred Nobel, as inscribed on this medal, “peace and brotherhood,” let’s feed them all. Food is the pathway to <a href="/wiki/Peace" title="Peace">peace</a>.</figcaption></figure> <ul><li>What tears me up inside is this. This coming year, millions and millions and millions of my equals, my neighbors, your neighbors, are marching to the brink of starvation. We stand at what may be the most ironic moment in modern history. On the one hand, after a century of massive strides in eliminating <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_poverty" class="extiw" title="w:Extreme poverty">extreme poverty</a>, today those 200 million of our neighbors are on the brink of starvation. That’s more than the entire population of <a href="/wiki/Western_Europe" class="mw-redirect" title="Western Europe">Western Europe</a>. On the other hand, there is $400 trillion of wealth in our world today. Even at the height of the <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic" title="COVID-19 pandemic">COVID pandemic</a>, in just 90 days, an additional [$2.7] trillion of wealth was created. And we only need $5 billion to save 30 million lives from <a href="/wiki/Famine" title="Famine">famine</a>. What am I missing here?...<br /> I don’t go to bed at night thinking about the children we saved; I go to bed weeping over the children we could not save. And when we don’t have enough money nor the access we need, we have to decide which children eat and which children do not eat, which children live, which children die. How would you like that job? Please, don’t ask us to choose who lives and who dies. In the spirit of <a href="/wiki/Alfred_Nobel" title="Alfred Nobel">Alfred Nobel</a>, as inscribed on this medal, “peace and brotherhood,” let’s feed them all. <a href="/wiki/Food" title="Food">Food</a> is the pathway to <a href="/wiki/Peace" title="Peace">peace</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/David_Beasley" title="David Beasley">David Beasley</a>, Food Is the Pathway to Peace: World Food Programme Wins Nobel Peace Prize & Warns of Hunger Pandemic, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Now!" class="extiw" title="w:Democracy Now!"><i>Democracy Now!</i></a> (10 December 2020)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Because of so many <a href="/wiki/Wars" class="mw-redirect" title="Wars">wars</a>, <a href="/wiki/Climate_change" class="mw-redirect" title="Climate change">climate change</a>, the widespread use of hunger as a <a href="/wiki/Political" class="mw-redirect" title="Political">political</a> and <a href="/wiki/Military" title="Military">military</a> <a href="/wiki/Weapon" title="Weapon">weapon</a></b>, and a global health <a href="/wiki/Pandemic" title="Pandemic">pandemic</a> that makes all of that exponentially worse, 270 million people are marching toward <a class="mw-selflink selflink">starvation</a>. <a href="/wiki/Failure" title="Failure">Failure</a> to address their needs will cause a hunger pandemic which will dwarf the impact of <a href="/wiki/COVID" class="mw-redirect" title="COVID">COVID</a>. And if that’s not bad enough, out of that 270 million, 30 million depend on us 100% for their survival. How will <a href="/wiki/Humanity" title="Humanity">humanity</a> respond? <ul><li><a href="/wiki/David_Beasley" title="David Beasley">David Beasley</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.democracynow.org/2020/12/10/2020_nobel_prize_world_food_programme">Food Is the Pathway to Peace: World Food Programme Wins Nobel Peace Prize & Warns of Hunger Pandemic</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Now!" class="extiw" title="w:Democracy Now!"><i>Democracy Now!</i></a> (10 December 2020)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>You see somewhere a man who is starving and if you misunderstand <a href="/wiki/Karma" title="Karma">karma</a> — as too many of you do, to the shame of <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a>, in a land where this teaching is of immemorial <a href="/wiki/Antiquity" title="Antiquity">antiquity</a> — you turn aside from that starving man and say that it is his karma to starve and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/perish" class="extiw" title="w:perish">perish</a>; in those hardened <a href="/wiki/Heart" title="Heart">heart</a> of yours you use the will of <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a> as a cover for your lack of <a href="/wiki/Love" title="Love">love</a>. That man’s karma to starve? Aye, and therefore he is starving! But if a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deva" class="extiw" title="w:Deva">Deva</a> guides you to the place where your brother is starving, it is because he would make you the agent of his <a href="/wiki/Beneficence" title="Beneficence">beneficence</a> to that man whose <a href="/wiki/Evil" title="Evil">evil</a> karma of the present moment has been exhausted by his suffering; the Deva thus says to you: “Man your brother man is starving give him the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relief" class="extiw" title="w:Relief">relief</a> it is his karma to receive, and be my agent in carrying out the <a href="/wiki/Law" title="Law">law</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Annie_Besant" title="Annie Besant">Annie Besant</a>, in <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.co.in/books?id=eIrD4GQFCPIC&pg=PT475">The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant</a>,</i> (Google eBook) (2012), p. 475</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Who can count the hundreds and thousands driven out from home, the broken families, the miseries, the <a href="/wiki/Poverty" title="Poverty">poverty</a>, and starvation intolerable, which marked the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion" class="extiw" title="w:Expulsion">expulsion</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Jews" class="mw-redirect" title="Jews">Jews</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Moors" title="Moors">Moors</a> from <a href="/wiki/Spain" title="Spain">Spain</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Annie_Besant" title="Annie Besant">Annie Besant</a>, in <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.co.in/books?id=N5oI1bYzOx8C&pg=PT44">Evolution of Life and Form: Four Lectures Delivered at the Twenty-Third Anniversary Meeting of the Theosophical Society at Adyar, Madras, 1898</a>,</i> (Google eBook), p. 44</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>By showing <a href="/wiki/Hunger" title="Hunger">hunger</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deprivation" class="extiw" title="w:Deprivation">deprivation</a>, starvation and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brutality" class="extiw" title="w:Brutality">brutality</a>, as well as <a href="/wiki/Endurance" title="Endurance">endurance</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nobility" title="Nobility">nobility</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Documentaries" class="extiw" title="w:Documentaries">documentaries</a> inform, prod our <a href="/wiki/Memories" class="mw-redirect" title="Memories">memories</a>, even stir us to action. Such <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film" class="extiw" title="w:Film">films</a> do battle for our very <a href="/wiki/Soul" title="Soul">soul</a>. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Bikel" class="extiw" title="w:Theodore Bikel">Theodore Bikel</a>, in <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.co.in/books?id=NrJS-t2_7qoC&pg=PA48">Citizen-Soldier Handbook: 101 Ways Every American Can Fight Terrorism</a>,</i> (2009), p. 48</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I'm a <a href="/wiki/Singer" class="mw-redirect" title="Singer">singer</a>, not a <a href="/wiki/Politician" class="mw-redirect" title="Politician">politician</a>, and I think you don't want the two to get confused. It's not OK to be on <a href="/wiki/CNN" title="CNN">CNN</a> talking about people starving and then tell the interviewer that your new album is coming out in six months. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bono" title="Bono">Bono</a>, in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://partners.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/20001008mag-qa-bono.html">Relief Pitcher (8 October 2000)</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="C">C</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Starvation&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: C"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:City_of_Westminster_rubbish_truck.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/City_of_Westminster_rubbish_truck.jpg/220px-City_of_Westminster_rubbish_truck.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/City_of_Westminster_rubbish_truck.jpg/330px-City_of_Westminster_rubbish_truck.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/City_of_Westminster_rubbish_truck.jpg/440px-City_of_Westminster_rubbish_truck.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3648" data-file-height="2736" /></a><figcaption>Criss Jami: Feel what it's like to truly starve, and I guarantee that you'll forever think twice before wasting <a href="/wiki/Food" title="Food">food</a>.</figcaption></figure> <ul><li>It is better to <a href="/wiki/Risk" title="Risk">risk</a> starving to <a href="/wiki/Death" title="Death">death</a> than <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrender" class="extiw" title="w:Surrender">surrender</a>. If you give up on your <a href="/wiki/Dreams" title="Dreams">dreams</a>, what's left? <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jim_Carrey" title="Jim Carrey">Jim Carrey</a>, in <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.co.in/books?id=-RVQAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA69">The Authentic You</a>,</i> (26 November 2013), p. 69</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Feel what it's like to truly starve, and I guarantee that you'll forever think twice before wasting <a href="/wiki/Food" title="Food">food</a>. <ul><li>Criss Jami, in <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books/about/Killosophy.html?id=GSkdBgAAQBAJ">Killosophy</a>,</i> (8 January 2015), p. 103</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>In the absence of all food the body's supply of energy is, after the first day or two, derived from its stock of protein and fat-13% being derived from the former and 87% from 'the latter. Thus the fat content may largely measure the days of survival. Even in partial inanition body protein will be used up and the extent to which the different organs will be depleted is almost certainly inversely proportional to their importance in survival. Insufficient information exists for us to know exactly the order of priority of the various organs and tissues but it is obvious that the vital organs must be kept functioning. <ul><li>D. P. Cuthbertson, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2181967/">"The Physiology and Treatment of Starvation"</a>. <i>Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine. US national library of medicine</i>. 38 (7): p.390. 1945. doi:10.1177/003591574503800716.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="D">D</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Starvation&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: D"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Cartoon_of_people_falling_into_a_giant%27s_mouth_(color).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Cartoon_of_people_falling_into_a_giant%27s_mouth_%28color%29.jpg/220px-Cartoon_of_people_falling_into_a_giant%27s_mouth_%28color%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="244" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Cartoon_of_people_falling_into_a_giant%27s_mouth_%28color%29.jpg/330px-Cartoon_of_people_falling_into_a_giant%27s_mouth_%28color%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Cartoon_of_people_falling_into_a_giant%27s_mouth_%28color%29.jpg/440px-Cartoon_of_people_falling_into_a_giant%27s_mouth_%28color%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="993" data-file-height="1100" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Emily_Dickinson" title="Emily Dickinson">Emily Dickinson</a>: <a href="/wiki/Anger" title="Anger">Anger</a> as soon as fed is <a href="/wiki/Dead" class="mw-redirect" title="Dead">dead</a>-<br /> 'Tis starving makes it <a href="/wiki/Fat" title="Fat">fat</a>.</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anger" title="Anger">Anger</a> as soon as fed is <a href="/wiki/Dead" class="mw-redirect" title="Dead">dead</a>-<br /> 'Tis starving makes it <a href="/wiki/Fat" title="Fat">fat</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Emily_Dickinson" title="Emily Dickinson">Emily Dickinson</a>, in <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.co.in/books?id=o0_1-rUEWroC&pg=PA572">The Poems of Emily Dickinson</a>,</i> (1999), p. 572</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="E">E</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Starvation&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: E"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:%22Little_Starving_Child_brought_back_to_life_because_you_went_without_some_luxury._All_of_the_Red_Cross_War_Fund_goes..._-_NARA_-_512660.tif" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/%22Little_Starving_Child_brought_back_to_life_because_you_went_without_some_luxury._All_of_the_Red_Cross_War_Fund_goes..._-_NARA_-_512660.tif/lossy-page1-220px-%22Little_Starving_Child_brought_back_to_life_because_you_went_without_some_luxury._All_of_the_Red_Cross_War_Fund_goes..._-_NARA_-_512660.tif.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="309" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/%22Little_Starving_Child_brought_back_to_life_because_you_went_without_some_luxury._All_of_the_Red_Cross_War_Fund_goes..._-_NARA_-_512660.tif/lossy-page1-330px-%22Little_Starving_Child_brought_back_to_life_because_you_went_without_some_luxury._All_of_the_Red_Cross_War_Fund_goes..._-_NARA_-_512660.tif.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/%22Little_Starving_Child_brought_back_to_life_because_you_went_without_some_luxury._All_of_the_Red_Cross_War_Fund_goes..._-_NARA_-_512660.tif/lossy-page1-440px-%22Little_Starving_Child_brought_back_to_life_because_you_went_without_some_luxury._All_of_the_Red_Cross_War_Fund_goes..._-_NARA_-_512660.tif.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2138" data-file-height="3000" /></a><figcaption><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_B._Eyring" class="extiw" title="w:Henry B. Eyring">Henry B. Eyring</a>:...Since there is enough and to spare, the <a href="/wiki/Enemy" class="mw-redirect" title="Enemy">enemy</a> of <a href="/wiki/Human" title="Human">human</a> <a href="/wiki/Happiness" title="Happiness">happiness</a> as well as the cause of <a href="/wiki/Poverty" title="Poverty">poverty</a> and starvation is not the birth of children.</figcaption></figure> <ul><li>A <a href="/wiki/Child" class="mw-redirect" title="Child">child</a> could see that Heavenly Father would not command men and women to marry and to multiply and replenish the <a href="/wiki/Earth" title="Earth">earth</a> if the children they invited into <a href="/wiki/Mortality" title="Mortality">mortality</a> would deplete the earth. Since there is enough and to spare, the <a href="/wiki/Enemy" class="mw-redirect" title="Enemy">enemy</a> of <a href="/wiki/Human" title="Human">human</a> <a href="/wiki/Happiness" title="Happiness">happiness</a> as well as the cause of <a href="/wiki/Poverty" title="Poverty">poverty</a> and starvation is not the birth of children. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_B._Eyring" class="extiw" title="w:Henry B. Eyring">Henry B. Eyring</a>, in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.gospeldoctrine.com/content/genesis-9.">Genesis 9 Genesis 9</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We can pray for <a href="/wiki/World_peace" title="World peace">world peace</a>; we can <a href="/wiki/Pray" class="mw-redirect" title="Pray">pray</a> to end world <a href="/wiki/Hunger" title="Hunger">hunger</a> and feed the starving <a href="/wiki/Children" title="Children">children</a>; we can pray to end <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide" class="extiw" title="w:Genocide">genocide</a>; we can pray for things to work out or whatever we desperately want or <a href="/wiki/Desire" title="Desire">desire</a>. Unless we take the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initiative" class="extiw" title="w:Initiative">initiative</a> to make it chances are our prayers will not be answered. If we don’t stop the aggressive <a href="/wiki/Nations" title="Nations">nations</a>, <a href="/wiki/Terrorists" class="mw-redirect" title="Terrorists">terrorists</a>, and gangs that attack innocent people, then there won’t be peace in the world. The poor, the weak, and the innocent will go hungry for another decade or longer. If we don’t deliver <a href="/wiki/Food" title="Food">food</a> to the starving children, they will not have anything to eat and they will starve to death. This is <a href="/wiki/Truth" title="Truth">truth</a> and <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">god</a> is truth! Those who create the turbulent <a href="/wiki/Environment" class="mw-redirect" title="Environment">environment</a> are <a href="/wiki/Evil" title="Evil">evil</a>; they must be dealt with before evil deals with us. <ul><li>Emil Ezegner, in <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.co.in/books?id=g7CUwDZunGIC&pg=PT51">Distractive Politics</a>,</i> (1 January 2010), p. 51</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="F">F</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Starvation&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: F"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>I hate <a href="/wiki/War" title="War">war</a> for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses, for the <a href="/wiki/Dictatorship" title="Dictatorship">dictatorships</a> it puts in the place of <a href="/wiki/Democracy" title="Democracy">democracies</a>, and for the starvation that stalks after it. I hate war, and never again will I sanction or support another. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Harry_Emerson_Fosdick" title="Harry Emerson Fosdick">Harry Emerson Fosdick</a>, in <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.co.in/books?id=gUQIWzFO2UEC&pg=PA121">Dumbass</a>,</i> (1 January 2006), p. 121</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="G">G</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Starvation&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: G"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>To deprive a man of his natural <a href="/wiki/Liberty" title="Liberty">liberty</a> and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of <a href="/wiki/Life" title="Life">life</a> is worse than starving the <a href="/wiki/Body" title="Body">body</a>; it is starvation of the <a href="/wiki/Soul" title="Soul">soul</a>, the dweller in the body. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi" title="Mahatma Gandhi">Mahatma Gandhi</a>, in <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.co.in/books?id=xRkIq_oRkWsC&pg=PA51">Mahatma Gandhi: an apostle of applied human ecology</a>,</i> (1 January 2002), p. 51</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Furthermore, they were constantly informed by all the camp authorities that they had been abandoned by the <a href="/wiki/World" title="World">world</a>: they were beggars and lucky to receive the daily soup of starvation. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Martha_Gellhorn" title="Martha Gellhorn">Martha Gellhorn</a>, in <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.co.in/books?id=1BsfAQAAMAAJ">Collier's</a>,</i> Volume 115, p. 156</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The real <a href="/wiki/Scientist" class="mw-redirect" title="Scientist">scientist</a> is ready to bear <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privation" class="extiw" title="w:Privation">privation</a> and, if need be, starvation rather than let anyone dictate to him which direction his work must take. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Albert_Szent-Gyorgyi" class="mw-redirect" title="Albert Szent-Gyorgyi">Albert Szent-Gyorgyi</a>, in <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.co.in/books?id=4sO52fBZ_PcC&pg=PA70">The Doomsday Lobby: Hype and Panic from Sputniks, Martians, and Marauding ...</a>,</i> (11 September 2010), p. 70</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="H">H</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Starvation&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: H"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Partial_Lunar_Eclipse_2019-07-16.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Partial_Lunar_Eclipse_2019-07-16.jpg/220px-Partial_Lunar_Eclipse_2019-07-16.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="99" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Partial_Lunar_Eclipse_2019-07-16.jpg/330px-Partial_Lunar_Eclipse_2019-07-16.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Partial_Lunar_Eclipse_2019-07-16.jpg/440px-Partial_Lunar_Eclipse_2019-07-16.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2286" data-file-height="1024" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/O._Henry" title="O. Henry">O. Henry</a>: <a href="/wiki/Love" title="Love">Love</a> and <a href="/wiki/Business" title="Business">business</a> and <a href="/wiki/Family" title="Family">family</a> and <a href="/wiki/Religion" title="Religion">religion</a> and <a href="/wiki/Art" title="Art">art</a> and <a href="/wiki/Patriotism" title="Patriotism">patriotism</a> are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!</figcaption></figure> <ul><li>It is not surprising that most <a href="/wiki/Pakistan" title="Pakistan">Pakistanis</a> do not support <a href="/wiki/America" class="mw-redirect" title="America">America</a>'s <a href="/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_(2001%E2%80%932021)" title="War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)">bombardment of Afghanistan</a>. The Afghans are neighbours on the brink of starvation and devastated by <a href="/wiki/War" title="War">war</a>. America has shown itself to be untrustworthy, a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superpower" class="extiw" title="w:Superpower">superpower</a> that uses its values as a scabbard for its <a href="/wiki/Sword" title="Sword">sword</a>. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohsin_Hamid" class="extiw" title="w:Mohsin Hamid">Mohsin Hamid</a>, in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/oct/15/pakistan.features11">Pakistan must not be abandoned</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Love" title="Love">Love</a> and <a href="/wiki/Business" title="Business">business</a> and <a href="/wiki/Family" title="Family">family</a> and <a href="/wiki/Religion" title="Religion">religion</a> and <a href="/wiki/Art" title="Art">art</a> and <a href="/wiki/Patriotism" title="Patriotism">patriotism</a> are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving! <ul><li><a href="/wiki/O._Henry" title="O. Henry">O. Henry</a>, in <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.co.in/books?id=0VMbAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT622">Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)</a>,</i> (17 November 2013), p. 622</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="I">I</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Starvation&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: I"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="J">J</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Starvation&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: J"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Brazilian_bouillabaisse.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Brazilian_bouillabaisse.jpg/220px-Brazilian_bouillabaisse.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Brazilian_bouillabaisse.jpg/330px-Brazilian_bouillabaisse.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Brazilian_bouillabaisse.jpg/440px-Brazilian_bouillabaisse.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1760" data-file-height="1168" /></a><figcaption><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._J._Jacobs" class="extiw" title="w:A. J. Jacobs">A. J. Jacobs</a>:I tried the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleolithic_diet" class="extiw" title="w:Paleolithic diet">paleo diet</a>, which is the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caveman" class="extiw" title="w:Caveman">caveman</a> <a href="/wiki/Diet" title="Diet">diet</a> - lots of <a href="/wiki/Meat" title="Meat">meat</a>. And I tried the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calorie_restriction_diet" class="extiw" title="w:Calorie restriction diet">calorie restriction diet</a>: The <a href="/wiki/Idea" class="mw-redirect" title="Idea">idea</a> is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course.</figcaption></figure> <ul><li>I tried the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleolithic_diet" class="extiw" title="w:Paleolithic diet">paleo diet</a>, which is the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Caveman&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Caveman (page does not exist)">caveman</a> <a href="/wiki/Diet" title="Diet">diet</a> - lots of <a href="/wiki/Meat" title="Meat">meat</a>. And I tried the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calorie_restriction_diet" class="extiw" title="w:Calorie restriction diet">calorie restriction diet</a>: The <a href="/wiki/Idea" class="mw-redirect" title="Idea">idea</a> is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._J._Jacobs" class="extiw" title="w:A. J. Jacobs">A. J. Jacobs</a>, in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.npr.org/2012/04/07/150080322/self-improver-a-j-jacobs-takes-on-getting-healthy">Self-Improver A.J. Jacobs Takes On Getting 'Healthy' (5 April 2012)</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>When the average <a href="/wiki/American" class="mw-redirect" title="American">American</a> says, “I’m starving,” it is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prelude" class="extiw" title="w:Prelude">prelude</a> to a midnight raid on a well-stocked <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refrigerator" class="extiw" title="w:Refrigerator">refrigerator</a> or a sudden trip to the nearest <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_food_restaurant" class="extiw" title="w:Fast food restaurant">fast food restaurant</a>. <ul><li>Carolyn Custis James, in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.byronfpc.org/bullitens/031713.pdf">Choir News Byron Presbyterian Church</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="K">K</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Starvation&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: K"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="L">L</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Starvation&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: L"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Starvation results from inadequate intake of macronutrients (proteins, fats and carbohydrates). It may be partial or complete. In fasting, all food energy is excluded, whereas in semi-starvation insufficient energy and protein are ingested. Human starvation and semi-starvation result from deprivation of food, not specific nutrients, so both micronutrient and macronutrient deficiencies result, causing clinical disease. The body defends against these deficiencies by triggering hunger, a cognitive state in which there is motivation to eat food. <br /> Preliminary results of the long-term effects of semi-starvation were presented at the 9th International Congress on Eating Disorders, held in <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> on May 4-7, 2000.1 Elke Eckert and Scott Crow presented details from the landmark study of Ancel Keys, carried out at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Minnesota" class="extiw" title="w:University of Minnesota">University of Minnesota</a> in the 1930s, and a 50-year follow-up of most of the volunteers alive today. Keys wanted to establish the best way of refeeding people who had starved in Europe as a result of <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>. One hundred men volunteered for his study, in which the effects of a 24-week period of semi-starvation were examined. All of the men had been screened for exceptional physical and psychological health. Of the 40 chosen, 4 dropped out because they could not tolerate semi-starvation: 3 developed <a href="/w/index.php?title=Binge-eating&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Binge-eating (page does not exist)">binge-eating</a>, 2 began to <a href="/wiki/Steal" class="mw-redirect" title="Steal">steal</a> food, 1 suffered severe <a href="/wiki/Depression" title="Depression">depression</a>, and 2 were admitted to hospital because of symptoms of <a href="/wiki/Psychosis" title="Psychosis">psychosis</a>. In the 50-year follow-up, abnormal eating behaviours (although less severe than those just described) and ruminations persisted in all of the 25 volunteers who consented to interview. Eckert and Crow concluded that the effects of hunger are powerful and long-lasting. <ul><li>Laird Birmingham, C. (2000). "Child hunger: semi-starvation study repeated in Canada". <i>Canadian Medical Association Journal</i>. 163 (8): 985–986.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Inadequate government assistance to poor people has resulted in what could be thought of as a naturalistic study. This ”study” is too costly and will give no new data. Keys‚ study of malnutrition already showed that people who undergo semi-starvation will experience <a href="/wiki/Hunger" title="Hunger">hunger</a>, <a href="/wiki/Weakness" title="Weakness">weakness</a>, lack of drive, decreased ability to feel happiness, osteoporosis, hypoalbuminemia, dependent edema, decreased muscle mass, alopecia, hypotension, poor wound healing and <a href="/wiki/Depression" title="Depression">depression</a>. ”Children of hunger” will be less productive, will learn more slowly and are more likely to have behavioural problems. <a href="/wiki/Canada" title="Canada">Canadian</a> <a href="/wiki/Health_care" title="Health care">health care</a> costs will also be greatly increased owing to health problems, including complications during pregnancy and birth, in malnourished <a href="/wiki/Mothers" title="Mothers">mothers</a> who attempt to offset the hunger of their children by depriving themselves of food. <ul><li>Laird Birmingham, C. (2000). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC80547/">"Child hunger: semi-starvation study repeated in Canada"</a>. <i>Canadian Medical Association Journal</i>. 163 (8): 985–986.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>—O, tranquil earth and heaven—but their repose,<br />What influence hath it on the mourner there !<br />Her eye is fix’d in terrible despair,<br />Her lip is white with pain, and, spectre-like,<br />Her shape is worn with famine—on her arm<br />Rests a dead child—she does not weep for it.<br />Two more are at her side, she’d weep for them,<br />But that she is too desperate to weep: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Letitia_Elizabeth_Landon" title="Letitia Elizabeth Landon">Letitia Elizabeth Landon</a>, <i>Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1835</i> (1834), 'Scene in Bundelkhund'</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I have been up to see the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Congress" class="extiw" title="w:United States Congress">Congress</a> and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat <a href="/wiki/Peanuts" title="Peanuts">peanuts</a> and chew <a href="/wiki/Tobacco" title="Tobacco">tobacco</a>, while my <a href="/wiki/Army" class="mw-redirect" title="Army">army</a> is starving. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Robert_E._Lee" title="Robert E. Lee">Robert E. Lee</a>, in <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.co.in/books?id=l8Z8e4-XIVEC&pg=PA325">The Perfect Gentleman: The Life and Letters of George Washington ..., Volume 1</a>,</i> (2003), p. 325</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Even a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competence_(law)" class="extiw" title="w:Competence (law)">competent</a> <a href="/wiki/Lawyer" class="mw-redirect" title="Lawyer">lawyer</a> may not be able to mount an adequate defense against the state, with all its resources, if he has next to nothing for investigation and effectively works for starvation wages. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anthony_Lewis" title="Anthony Lewis">Anthony Lewis</a>, in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/node/813">The Silencing of Gideon's Trumpet in New York Times Magazine (20 April 2003)</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="M">M</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Starvation&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: M"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>In the terminal stages of starvation in man, signs and symptoms related to the gastro-intestinal tract are conspicuous features. These are copious and persistent diarrhoea with progressive dehydration and the other effects which follow from the inability to absorb-food and fluid. <br /> Observations made by medical men at an earlier period of the war on people in the extreme stages of starvation indicate that the onset of these symptoms almost invariably presages a fatal end, in spite of treatment. The source of this evidence I cannot reveal at present but' corroboration has come from <a href="/wiki/China" title="China">China</a> (Laycock, 1944) and from <a href="/wiki/Bengal" title="Bengal">Bengal</a> (Cuthbertson, 1944). Subsequent speakers will give their experience of starvation in liberated Europe. I confine myself to the physiological basis of the symptomatology and of the method of treatment by intravenous protein hydrolysates. <br /> Between 1927 and 1933 I had, with several colleagues, been studying in different animals the functions of the alimentary canal and particularly absorption by the small intestine. <br /> Absorption is fundamental to all the other nutritional processes; it is the 'bottle-neck and if it fails then all the other processes fail too. Failure of absorptionseems to me to be the essential lesion in starvation. The experimental evidence I quote points to progressive decline in the efficiency of absorption as the period of fasting is increased; the evidence also suggests that the metabolic processes also suffer. <ul><li>H. E. Magee, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2181967/">"The Physiology and Treatment of Starvation"</a>. <i>Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine. US national library of medicine</i>. 38 (7): p.388. 1945.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>These findings indicate that deprivation of food progressively destroys the digestive, absorptive and protective functions of the alimentary canal and also, it would seem, impairs the metabolic function. The small intestine is the great portal of entry of nutrients into the body and if the essential cells of this viscus are destroved, as they are in extreme starvation, then the administration of food will act merely as an irritant,causing diarrhoea and withdrawal of water from the bodv. Therefore, the aim in such cases should be the restoration of the structure and of the function of the intestinal epithelium. Since this cannot be done by giving food by mouth, suitable "building stones" in appropriate amounts must be given by vein. I would emphasize that amino-acids and not whole proteins, e.g. blood proteins, are required, because we must assume that the ability of the starved organism to break down whole proteins would be seriously impaired. Doubtless blood proteins would help in a general way to maintain the patient's vitality but they could not be expected to provide at the required speed sufficient building stones to effect rapid restoration of the damaged epithelial cells. It follows that sufficient glucose should be given, preferably before the proteins, to cover the body's energy needs so as to prevent the amino-acids administered from being used up for energy purposes. It also follows that sufficient B vitamins should be administered at the same time to cover the oxidation of the glulcose. <ul><li>H. E. Magee, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2181967/">"The Physiology and Treatment of Starvation"</a>. <i>Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine. US national library of medicine</i>. 38 (7): p.389. 1945.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The loss of the protective function of the epithelium lays open the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/intestine" class="extiw" title="w:intestine">intestine</a> to <a href="/wiki/Infections" class="mw-redirect" title="Infections">infection</a> by organisms present in the food and would explain the presence of ulcers so frequently found in persons dying from starvation. The evidence in the confidential report mentioned above dealing with observations on people who had died of starvation during this war cam: into my hands when, early in 1943, Dr. Gaunt drew my attention to the work of Elman and others in <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">U.S.A.</a> The findings of these observers were to the effect that suitable hydrolysates had been used with considerable success in the treatment of starvation arising out of pathological conditions which prevented the consumption, digestion or absorption of food administered in the ordinary way. Dr. Gaunt showed me a review on the subject which he had prepared. At my suggestion, he published it (Gaunt, 1944). I encouraged him, and subsequently the representatives of another firm, to pursue their researches as vigorously as possible, because I was of opinion that the method of treatment, evidently having proved successful in U.S.A., would be of inestimable benefit to people suffering from acute starvation. <ul><li>H. E. Magee, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2181967/">"The Physiology and Treatment of Starvation"</a>. <i>Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine. US national library of medicine</i>. 38 (7): p.389. 1945.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>During prolonged <a href="/wiki/Fasting" title="Fasting">fasting</a>, hormonal and metabolic changes are aimed at preventing protein and muscle breakdown. Muscle and other tissues decrease their use of ketone bodies and use fatty acids as the main energy source. This results in an increase in blood levels of ketone bodies, stimulating the brain to switch from glucose to ketone bodies as its main energy source. The liver decreases its rate of gluconeogenesis, thus preserving muscle protein. During the period of prolonged starvation, several intracellular minerals become severely depleted. However, serum concentrations of these minerals (including phosphate) may remain normal. This is because these minerals are mainly in the intracellular compartment, which contracts during starvation. In addition, there is a reduction in renal excretion. <ul><li>Mehanna HM, Moledina J, Travis J (June 2008). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2440847/">"Refeeding syndrome: what it is, and how to prevent and treat it"</a>. <i>BMJ</i>. 336 (7659): 1495–8.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="N">N</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Starvation&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: N"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="O">O</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Starvation&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: O"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Afghanistan" title="Afghanistan">Afghanistan</a> is becoming the world’s largest humanitarian crisis. The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_and_Agriculture_Organization" class="extiw" title="w:Food and Agriculture Organization">Food and Agricultural Organization</a> said that 18.8 million Afghans are unable to feed themselves every day. This number is set to rise to nearly 23 million by the end of the year. Nearly nine million people are close to <a class="mw-selflink selflink">starvation</a>. At least one million children under five with severe acute malnutrition and 2.2 million children under five with moderate acute malnutrition need malnutrition treatment services. However, starvation is not the only issue faced by children. As <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNICEF" class="extiw" title="w:UNICEF">UNICEF</a> warns “Afghanistan was already one of the toughest places on earth to be a child. Right now, the situation is desperate.” The situation deteriorates quickly as the country is on a brink of <a href="/wiki/Famine" title="Famine">famine</a>.<br />Recent weeks have seen yet another trend: <a href="/wiki/Family" title="Family">families</a> selling their <a href="/wiki/Children" title="Children">children</a>, and mostly <a href="/wiki/Girls" title="Girls">girls</a>, so that families could buy food. In one of reported cases, a six-year-old girl and 18-month-old toddler were sold for $3,350 and $2,800 respectively. In another reporting, a 9-year-old girl was sold for about $2,200 in the form of sheep, land and cash. There are many more such stories. <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/ewelinaochab/2021/11/25/afghan-girls-being-exchanged-for-food-as-famine-nears/?sh=6e788a675e1f">Afghan Girls Being Exchanged For Food As Famine Nears, Ewelina U. Ochab,</a> <i>Forbes</i> November 25, 2021</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I did not feel '<a href="/wiki/Evil" title="Evil">evil</a>' when I wrote <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advertisements" class="extiw" title="w:Advertisements">advertisements</a> for <a href="/wiki/Puerto_Rico" title="Puerto Rico">Puerto Rico</a>. They helped attract <a href="/wiki/Industry" title="Industry">industry</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourists" class="extiw" title="w:Tourists">tourists</a> to a <a href="/wiki/Country" class="mw-disambig" title="Country">country</a> which had been living on the edge of starvation for 400 years. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/David_Ogilvy" title="David Ogilvy">David Ogilvy</a>, in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://59.67.71.237:8080/ad/ziliao/A%20good%20advertisement%20is%20one%20which%20sells%20the%20product%20without%20drawing%20attention%20to%20itself.doc.">A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself.</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Nobody's <a href="/wiki/Life" title="Life">life</a> is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear, and we all just do our best. I would never claim to have the worst situation. There are many widows, and many people dying of <a href="/wiki/AIDS" class="mw-redirect" title="AIDS">AIDS</a>, many people killed in <a href="/wiki/Lebanon" title="Lebanon">Lebanon</a>, people starving all over the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet" class="extiw" title="w:Planet">planet</a>. So we have to count our <a href="/wiki/Lucky" class="mw-redirect" title="Lucky">lucky</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stars" class="extiw" title="w:Stars">stars</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Yoko_Ono" title="Yoko Ono">Yoko Ono</a>, in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://articles.latimes.com/1990-05-06/entertainment/ca-245_1_john-lennon/3">Yoko Ono, a Decade After the 'Horrible Thing' : John Lennon's widow still lives under a shadow, but, she says, 'It's not a bad time' (6 May 1990)</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="P">P</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Starvation&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: P"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Niger_childhood_malnutrition_16oct06.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e1/Niger_childhood_malnutrition_16oct06.jpg" decoding="async" width="165" height="210" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="165" data-file-height="210" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Samantha_Power" title="Samantha Power">Samantha Power</a>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbabwe_people" class="extiw" title="w:Zimbabwe people">Zimbabweans</a> are severely <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malnourished" class="extiw" title="w:Malnourished">malnourished</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Deaths" class="mw-redirect" title="Deaths">deaths</a> from starvation occur even in the cities. The <a href="/wiki/Country" class="mw-disambig" title="Country">country</a> has not yet suffered nationwide <a href="/w/index.php?title=WFamine&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="WFamine (page does not exist)">famine</a> only because <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_aid" class="extiw" title="w:International aid">international donors</a> have stepped in.</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Climate_change" class="mw-redirect" title="Climate change">Climate change</a> could further adversely affect food security and exacerbate malnutrition at low latitudes, especially in seasonally dry and tropical regions, where crop <a href="/wiki/Productivity" title="Productivity">productivity</a> is projected to decrease for even small local temperature increases (1–2 °C). By 2020, in some <a href="/wiki/Africa" title="Africa">African</a> countries, yields from <a href="/wiki/Rain" title="Rain">rain</a>-fed <a href="/wiki/Agriculture" title="Agriculture">agriculture</a> could be reduced by up to 50%. Agricultural production, including access to food, in many African countries is projected to be severely compromised. The health status of millions of people is projected to be affected through, for example, increases in malnutrition; increased <a href="/wiki/Death" title="Death">deaths</a>, <a href="/wiki/Disease" title="Disease">diseases</a>, and injury due to extreme <a href="/wiki/Weather" title="Weather">weather</a> events; increased burden of diarrhoeal diseases; increased frequency of cardio-respiratory diseases due to higher concentrations of ground-level ozone in <a href="/wiki/Cities" title="Cities">urban areas</a> related to climate change; and the altered spatial distribution of some infectious diseases. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rajendra_K._Pachauri" title="Rajendra K. Pachauri">Rajendra K. Pachauri</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2007/ipcc/lecture/">Nobel Peace Prize Lecture of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change</a>, 10 December 2007</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Over the course of nearly three-and-a-half months, the novel <a href="/wiki/Coronavirus" class="mw-redirect" title="Coronavirus">coronavirus</a> outbreak has infected over 127,000 and left over 4,700 dead. While this has sparked global panic and a <a href="/wiki/World_Health_Organization" title="World Health Organization">WHO</a>-declaration of a <a href="/wiki/Pandemic" title="Pandemic">pandemic</a>, then death toll is still a far cry from that of starvation, <a href="/wiki/Malaria" title="Malaria">Malaria</a> and <a href="/wiki/War" title="War">war</a>. This was the point made by BAFTA-award winning journalist and documentary filmmaker <a href="/wiki/John_Pilger" title="John Pilger">John Pilger</a> who took to <a href="/wiki/Facebook" title="Facebook">Facebook</a> on Thursday, to highlight how, <b>despite the fact that 24,600 people died each day from starvation and 3,000 children from preventable <a href="/wiki/Malaria" title="Malaria">Malaria</a>, no pandemic has been declared for them.</b> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theweek.in/news/world/2020/03/12/here-is-what-legendary-journalist-john-pilger-said-about-coronavirus-outbreak.html">Here is what legendary journalist John Pilger said about coronavirus outbreak</a> Pilger decries inattention to hunger, malaria and American wars and blockades, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Week" class="extiw" title="w:The Week"><i>The Week</i></a>, (12 March 2020)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Zimbabwe" title="Zimbabwe">Zimbabweans</a> are severely <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malnourished" class="extiw" title="w:Malnourished">malnourished</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Deaths" class="mw-redirect" title="Deaths">deaths</a> from starvation occur even in the cities. The <a href="/wiki/Country" class="mw-disambig" title="Country">country</a> has not yet suffered nationwide <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famine" class="extiw" title="w:Famine">famine</a> only because <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_aid" class="extiw" title="w:International aid">international donors</a> have stepped in. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Samantha_Power" title="Samantha Power">Samantha Power</a>, in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2003/12/how-to-kill-a-country/302845/">How To Kill A Country (1 December 2003)</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Debout, les damnés de la terre<br />Debout, les forçats de la faim<br />La raison tonne en son cratère<br />C'est l'éruption de la fin <ul><li><b>Stand up, damned of the <a href="/wiki/Earth" title="Earth">Earth</a><br />Stand up, <a href="/wiki/Prisoners" class="mw-redirect" title="Prisoners">prisoners</a> of starvation<br />Reason thunders in its volcano<br />This is the eruption of the <a href="/wiki/End" title="End">end</a>.</b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Edine_Pottier" title="Eugène Edine Pottier">Eugène Edine Pottier</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Internationale" title="The Internationale">The Internationale</a></i> (1864)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Q">Q</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Starvation&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Q"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="R">R</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Starvation&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: R"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Paul_Nicholas_Allan_Warren.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Paul_Nicholas_Allan_Warren.jpg/220px-Paul_Nicholas_Allan_Warren.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="295" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Paul_Nicholas_Allan_Warren.jpg/330px-Paul_Nicholas_Allan_Warren.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Paul_Nicholas_Allan_Warren.jpg/440px-Paul_Nicholas_Allan_Warren.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3585" data-file-height="4800" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Tim_Rice" title="Tim Rice">Tim Rice</a>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Magdeline" class="extiw" title="w:Mary Magdeline">Woman</a>, your fine ointment, brand new and expensive <br /> Could have been saved for the <a href="/wiki/Poor" class="mw-redirect" title="Poor">poor</a> <br /> Why has it been <a href="/wiki/Wasted" class="mw-redirect" title="Wasted">wasted</a>? We could have raised maybe <br /> Three hundred <a href="/wiki/Silver" title="Silver">silver</a> pieces or more <br /> People who are <a href="/wiki/Hungry" class="mw-redirect" title="Hungry">hungry</a>, people who are starving <br /> Matter more than your <a href="/wiki/Feet" title="Feet">feet</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hair" title="Hair">hair</a>.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bengal_famine_1943.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Bengal_famine_1943.png/220px-Bengal_famine_1943.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="199" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Bengal_famine_1943.png/330px-Bengal_famine_1943.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/87/Bengal_famine_1943.png 2x" data-file-width="396" data-file-height="359" /></a><figcaption>Peter Rosett: Too many people are too <a href="/wiki/Poor" class="mw-redirect" title="Poor">poor</a> to buy the <a href="/wiki/Food" title="Food">food</a> that is available or lack land on which to grow it themselves...</figcaption></figure> <ul><li>It's difficult to <a href="/wiki/Believe" class="mw-redirect" title="Believe">believe</a> that <a href="/wiki/People" class="mw-redirect" title="People">people</a> are still starving in this <a href="/wiki/Country" class="mw-disambig" title="Country">country</a> because <a href="/wiki/Food" title="Food">food</a> isn't available. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan">Ronald Reagan</a>, in <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.co.in/books?id=L_s-Xz443YAC&pg=PA3">Quotes by Reagan Ronald</a>,</i> p. 3</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judas" class="extiw" title="w:Judas">Judas</a></b>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Magdeline" class="extiw" title="w:Mary Magdeline">Woman</a>, your fine ointment, brand new and expensive <br /> Could have been saved for the <a href="/wiki/Poor" class="mw-redirect" title="Poor">poor</a> <br /> Why has it been <a href="/wiki/Wasted" class="mw-redirect" title="Wasted">wasted</a>? We could have raised maybe <br /> Three hundred <a href="/wiki/Silver" title="Silver">silver</a> pieces or more <br /> People who are hungry, people who are starving <br /> Matter more than your <a href="/wiki/Feet" title="Feet">feet</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hair" title="Hair">hair</a>. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Rice" class="extiw" title="w:Tim Rice">Tim Rice</a> <a href="/wiki/Jesus_Christ_Superstar" title="Jesus Christ Superstar">Jesus Christ Superstar</a> (1970)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Finally, attention must be drawn to one of the most important consequences of colonialism on <a href="/wiki/Africa" title="Africa">African</a> development, and that is the stunting effect on <a href="/wiki/Black_people" title="Black people">Africans</a> as a physical species. <a href="/wiki/Colonialism" title="Colonialism">Colonialism</a> created conditions which led not just to periodic famine but to chronic undernourishment, malnutrition, and deterioration in the physique of the African people. If such a statement sounds wildly extravagant, it is only because <a href="/wiki/Bourgeoisie" title="Bourgeoisie">bourgeois</a> <a href="/wiki/Propaganda" title="Propaganda">propaganda</a> has conditioned even Africans to believe that malnutrition and starvation were the natural lot of Africans from time immemorial. A black child with a transparent rib cage, huge <a href="/wiki/Head" title="Head">head</a>, bloated <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stomach" class="extiw" title="w:Stomach">stomach</a>, protruding <a href="/wiki/Eyes" title="Eyes">eyes</a>, and twigs as arms and legs was the favorite poster of the large <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">British</a> charitable operation known as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxfam" class="extiw" title="w:Oxfam">Oxfam</a>. The poster represented a case of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwashiorkor" class="extiw" title="w:Kwashiorkor">kwashiorkor</a>—extreme malignant malnutrition. Oxfam called upon the people of <a href="/wiki/Europe" title="Europe">Europe</a> to save starving African and <a href="/wiki/Asia" title="Asia">Asian</a> children from kwashiorkor and such ills. Oxfam never bothered their consciences by telling them that capitalism and colonialism created the starvation, suffering, and misery of the child in the first place. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Walter_Rodney" title="Walter Rodney">Walter Rodney</a>, <i>How Europe Underdeveloped Africa</i> (1972), p. 373</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>There is an excellent study of the phenomenon of hunger on a world scale by a <a href="/wiki/Brazil" title="Brazil">Brazilian</a> <a href="/wiki/Scientists" title="Scientists">scientist</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josue_de_Castro" class="extiw" title="w:Josue de Castro">Josue de Castro</a>. It incorporates considerable data on the food and <a href="/wiki/Health" title="Health">health</a> conditions among Africans in their independent pre-colonial state or in societies untouched by capitalist pressures; and it then makes comparisons with colonial conditions. '''The study convincingly indicates that African diet was previously more varied, being based on a more diversified agriculture than was possible under colonialism. In terms of specific nutritional deficiencies, those Africans who suffered most under colonialism were those who were brought most fully into the colonial economy: namely, the <a href="/wiki/Proletariat" class="mw-redirect" title="Proletariat">urban workers</a>.''' <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Walter_Rodney" title="Walter Rodney">Walter Rodney</a>, <i>How Europe Underdeveloped Africa</i> (1972), p. 373</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalists" class="extiw" title="w:Naturalists">Naturalists</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egalitarian" class="extiw" title="w:Egalitarian">egalitarians</a> don’t believe the rosy predictions about how <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetically_modified_food" class="extiw" title="w:Genetically modified food">genetically enhanced food</a> will end <a href="/wiki/Famine" title="Famine">famine</a>. Starving people are <a href="/wiki/Hungry" class="mw-redirect" title="Hungry">hungry</a> not because of high <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_density" class="extiw" title="w:Population density">population density</a> but inequality in food distribution… Similarly geni-modified food is neither the best nor the only way to feed starving people. <ul><li>Peter Rosett, in “World Hunger:Tweleve Myths” in <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.co.in/books?id=QsTsXW9vJKEC&pg=PA149">Designer Food: Mutant Harvest Or Breadbasket of the World?</a>,</i> (2002), quoted by Gregory E. Pence, p. 149</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Too many people are too <a href="/wiki/Poor" class="mw-redirect" title="Poor">poor</a> to buy the <a href="/wiki/Food" title="Food">food</a> that is available or lack land on which to grow it themselves. The real <a href="/wiki/Enemy" class="mw-redirect" title="Enemy">enemy</a> is the international conglomerates that want to <a href="/wiki/Profit" title="Profit">profit</a> by feeding the hungry and selling them <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetically_modified_food" class="extiw" title="w:Genetically modified food">genetically modified (GM) food</a>. <ul><li>Peter Rosett, in “Designer Food: Mutant Harvest Or Breadbasket of the World? (2002), quoted by Gregory E. Pence”, p. 149</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>But while they prate of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_law" class="extiw" title="w:Economic law">economic laws</a>, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt" title="Franklin D. Roosevelt">Franklin D. Roosevelt</a>, in <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.co.in/books?id=2U8qIfxY9RwC&pg=PA71">Risk: Decision Matrix - Strategies That Win</a>,</i> (6 January 2009), p. 71</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>All who are not <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunatics" class="extiw" title="w:Lunatics">lunatics</a> are agreed about certain things. That it is better to be <a href="/wiki/Alive" class="mw-redirect" title="Alive">alive</a> than <a href="/wiki/Dead" class="mw-redirect" title="Dead">dead</a>, better to be adequately fed than starved, better to be free than a <a href="/wiki/Slave" class="mw-redirect" title="Slave">slave</a>. Many people <a href="/wiki/Desire" title="Desire">desire</a> those things only for themselves and their friends; they are quite content that their <a href="/wiki/Enemies" title="Enemies">enemies</a> should <a href="/wiki/Suffer" class="mw-redirect" title="Suffer">suffer</a>. These people can be refuted by <a href="/wiki/Science" title="Science">science</a>: <a href="/wiki/Mankind" class="mw-redirect" title="Mankind">Mankind</a> has become so much one <a href="/wiki/Family" title="Family">family</a> that we cannot <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insure" class="extiw" title="w:Insure">insure</a> our own <a href="/wiki/Prosperity" title="Prosperity">prosperity</a> except by insuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be <a href="/wiki/Happy" class="mw-redirect" title="Happy">happy</a> yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bertrand_Russell" title="Bertrand Russell">Bertrand Russell</a>, in <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.co.in/books?id=Zc4p7vUXZyEC&pg=PA43&lpg=PA43">Parecon: Life After Capitalism</a>,</i> (2004), p. 43</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="S">S</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Starvation&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: S"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Glyptodon_old_drawing.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Glyptodon_old_drawing.jpg/220px-Glyptodon_old_drawing.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="139" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Glyptodon_old_drawing.jpg/330px-Glyptodon_old_drawing.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Glyptodon_old_drawing.jpg/440px-Glyptodon_old_drawing.jpg 2x" data-file-width="653" data-file-height="412" /></a><figcaption><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Sahlins" class="extiw" title="w:Marshall Sahlins">Marshall Sahlins</a>:One-third to one-half of <a href="/wiki/Humanity" title="Humanity">humanity</a> are said to go to bed <a href="/wiki/Hungry" class="mw-redirect" title="Hungry">hungry</a> every <a href="/wiki/Night" title="Night">night</a>. In the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleolithic" class="extiw" title="w:Paleolithic">Old Stone Age</a> the fraction must have been much smaller. This is the era of hunger unprecedented. Now, in the time of the greatest technical <a href="/wiki/Power" title="Power">power</a>, is starvation an <a href="/wiki/Institution" class="mw-redirect" title="Institution">institution</a>. Reverse another venerable formula: the amount of hunger increases relatively and absolutely with the evolution of <a href="/wiki/Culture" title="Culture">culture</a>.</figcaption></figure> <ul><li>One-third to one-half of <a href="/wiki/Humanity" title="Humanity">humanity</a> are said to go to bed <a href="/wiki/Hungry" class="mw-redirect" title="Hungry">hungry</a> every <a href="/wiki/Night" title="Night">night</a>. In the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleolithic" class="extiw" title="w:Paleolithic">Old Stone Age</a> the fraction must have been much smaller. This is the era of hunger unprecedented. Now, in the time of the greatest technical <a href="/wiki/Power" title="Power">power</a>, is starvation an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institution" class="extiw" title="w:Institution">institution</a>. Reverse another venerable formula: the amount of hunger increases relatively and absolutely with the evolution of <a href="/wiki/Culture" title="Culture">culture</a>. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Sahlins" class="extiw" title="w:Marshall Sahlins">Marshall Sahlins</a>, in <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.co.in/books?id=85MvxEK8FI8C&pg=PT38&lpg=PT38">Stone Age Economics</a>,</i> (03 April 2013), p. 38</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It may not be possible to give a very precise and detailed account of the bodily changes in starvation, but it is known that, associated with the extreme emaciation, there is a marked loss of protein in the tissues-and that to save life the first essential in treatment is to restore protein. The exhibition of protein hydrolysates is only one among other methods which might be employed to attain this object. <ul><li>Hugh Stannus, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2181967/">"The Physiology and Treatment of Starvation"</a>. <i>Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine. US national library of medicine</i>. 38 (7): 388–398. 1945. doi:10.1177/003591574503800716. PMC 2181967. <a class="external mw-magiclink-pmid" rel="nofollow" href="//www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19993083?dopt=Abstract">PMID 19993083</a>, p.393</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>When intake is poor or absent for a long time (weeks), weight loss is associated with organ failure and death. A weight loss of about 18% during complete starvation has been suggested to be the point at which major physiological disturbances can be expected (Peel, 1997). Studies reviewed by Elia (2000a, 2001a) suggest that, in lean individuals, the lethal leval of weight loss is about 40% during acute starvation and 50%during semi-starvation. For example, nine lean Irish hunger strikers survived for between 57 and 73 days without any food, with a mean weight loss of 38% of initial body weight (Elia, 2001a). Autopsy studies in subjects who died of starvation have shown that there is a virtual total depletion of body fat (Elis, 2001a), particularly in women (Henry, 2001), while there is a loss of only 25-50% of most other tissues and organs. The brain and skeleton were relatively well preserved (Elia, 2001a). <br /> There have been a few case reports of obese persons undergoing a successful ‘total’ fast (no energy) with much longer survival times (even over a year in one case) and much larger weight loss (65-80% or more of initial body weight in severely obese individuals) (Elia, 1992a, 2000a, 2001a; Henry, 2001). Obesity can thus be of benefit for survival in situations of severe food shortage (Elia, 2000a). <ul><li>R.J. Stratton, C.J. Green, M. Elia; <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Ro8IaMhVvtAC&pg=PA115">"Disease-Related Malnutrition: An Evidence-Based Approach to Treatment"</a>, 2003, CABI Publishing, p.115</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="T">T</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Starvation&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: T"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nature" title="Nature">Nature</a> builds things that are antifragile. In the case of <a href="/wiki/Evolution" title="Evolution">evolution</a>, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nassim_Nicholas_Taleb" title="Nassim Nicholas Taleb">Nassim Nicholas Taleb</a>, in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/new_scientist/2012/12/antifragile_book_interview_nassim_nicholas_taleb_on_how_chaos_and_disaster.html">Chaos Is Good for You</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The king looked sternly upon Thorin, when he was brought before him, and asked him many questions. But Thorin would only say that he was starving.<br />Why did you and your <a href="/wiki/Folk" class="mw-redirect" title="Folk">folk</a> three times try to attack my people at their merrymaking? asked the king.<br />"We did not attack them," answered Thorin, "we came to <a href="/wiki/Beg" class="mw-redirect" title="Beg">beg</a> because we were starving."<br />"Where are your <a href="/wiki/Friends" class="mw-redirect" title="Friends">friends</a> now, and what are they doing?"<br />"I don't know, but I expect that they're all starving in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest" class="extiw" title="w:Forest">forest</a>."<br />"What were you doing in the forest?"<br />"Looking for <a href="/wiki/Food" title="Food">food</a> and <a href="/wiki/Drink" title="Drink">drink</a>, because we were starving."<br />"And what brought you into the forest at all?" asked the king angrily.<br /> At that Thorin shut his mouth and would not say another word.”<br /> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/J.R.R._Tolkien" class="mw-redirect" title="J.R.R. Tolkien">J.R.R. Tolkien</a>, in <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.co.in/books?id=qUNjAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT77">The Hobbit</a>,</i> (19 April 2014), p. 77</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Starvation usually produces a mild metabolic acidosis, but when combined with physiologic stress, starvation may cause a severe metabolic acidosis. <ul><li>Toth, HL; Greenbaum, LA (November 2003). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ajkd.org/article/S0272-6386(03)01023-0/fulltext">"Severe acidosis caused by starvation and stress"</a>. <i>American Journal of Kidney Diseases</i>. 42 (5): E16-9. doi:10.1016/j.ajkd.2003.07.012. <a class="external mw-magiclink-pmid" rel="nofollow" href="//www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14582074?dopt=Abstract">PMID 14582074</a>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Over the twenty-one-day duration of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasting" class="extiw" title="w:Fasting">fast</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gandhi" class="mw-redirect" title="Gandhi">Gandhi</a> dropped from 109 pounds to 91 pounds – a 16.5 percent <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/weight_loss" class="extiw" title="w:weight loss">weight loss</a> - or slightly smaller percentage than the men of the starvation experiment would lose in their first three months. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Tucker" class="extiw" title="w:Todd Tucker">Todd Tucker</a>, when <a href="/wiki/Gandhi" class="mw-redirect" title="Gandhi">Gandhi</a> went on fast from 10 February to 3 March 1943, while he was incarcerated for political activism for liberation of India from British rule, in, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.co.in/books?id=eS-cdiJcnZgC&pg=PA118">The Great Starvation Experiment: Ancel Keys and the Men Who Starved for Science</a>,<i> (2007), pp.117-18</i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>With <a href="/wiki/Gandhi" class="mw-redirect" title="Gandhi">Gandhi</a> starving in <a href="/wiki/Jail" class="mw-redirect" title="Jail">jail</a>, legions of <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">Indians</a> fighting for <a href="/wiki/Hitler" class="mw-redirect" title="Hitler">Hitler</a>, and rampant starvation in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal" class="extiw" title="w:Bengal">Bengal</a>, it was near <a href="/wiki/Anarchy" class="mw-redirect" title="Anarchy">anarchy</a> in <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a>, and no one knew what would happen next. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Tucker" class="extiw" title="w:Todd Tucker">Todd Tucker</a>, in "The Great Starvation Experiment: Ancel Keys and the Men Who Starved for Science (2007)", p. 118</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The volunteers of the starvation experiment would have been familiar with <a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christianity</a>’s extensive ties to <a href="/wiki/Fasting" title="Fasting">fasting</a>. Fasting in the <a href="/wiki/Old_Testament" class="mw-redirect" title="Old Testament">Old Testament</a> occurred frequently, and for a variety of reasons. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Tucker" class="extiw" title="w:Todd Tucker">Todd Tucker</a>, in "The Great Starvation Experiment: Ancel Keys and the Men Who Starved for Science (2007)", p. 120</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="U">U</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Starvation&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: U"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Logo_of_UNICEF.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Logo_of_UNICEF.svg/220px-Logo_of_UNICEF.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="53" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Logo_of_UNICEF.svg/330px-Logo_of_UNICEF.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Logo_of_UNICEF.svg/440px-Logo_of_UNICEF.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="123" /></a><figcaption><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNICEF" class="extiw" title="w:UNICEF">Unicef</a>, the United Nations' children's agency, said this week that fewer than 10m children died before their fifth birthday in 2006—probably the lowest rate ever, and certainly the smallest number since records began in 1960, when twice as many under-fives died, out of a world population half today's level.</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNICEF" class="extiw" title="w:UNICEF">Unicef</a>, the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations" title="United Nations">United Nations</a>' children's agency, said this week that fewer than 10m children died before their fifth birthday in 2006—probably the lowest rate ever, and certainly the smallest number since records began in 1960, when twice as many under-fives died, out of a world population half today's level. <ul><li>UNICEF as quoted by <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.economist.com/international/2008/01/24/the-starvelings">“The Starvelings”</a>, <i>The Economist</i>, (January 26th, 2008)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="V">V</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Starvation&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: V"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-2004-0052,_Hungernde_Mutter,_Hungersnot_in_Th%C3%BCringen.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-2004-0052%2C_Hungernde_Mutter%2C_Hungersnot_in_Th%C3%BCringen.jpg/220px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-2004-0052%2C_Hungernde_Mutter%2C_Hungersnot_in_Th%C3%BCringen.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="308" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-2004-0052%2C_Hungernde_Mutter%2C_Hungersnot_in_Th%C3%BCringen.jpg/330px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-2004-0052%2C_Hungernde_Mutter%2C_Hungersnot_in_Th%C3%BCringen.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-2004-0052%2C_Hungernde_Mutter%2C_Hungersnot_in_Th%C3%BCringen.jpg/440px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-2004-0052%2C_Hungernde_Mutter%2C_Hungersnot_in_Th%C3%BCringen.jpg 2x" data-file-width="572" data-file-height="800" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Swami_Vivekananda" title="Swami Vivekananda">Swami Vivekananda</a>: As a matter of fact <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiritualism" class="extiw" title="w:Spiritualism">spiritualism</a> cannot progress amidst <a href="/wiki/Poverty" title="Poverty">poverty</a> and starvation. <a href="/wiki/Religion" title="Religion">Religion</a> and spiritualism are meaningless to a man who cries out for a piece of <a href="/wiki/Bread" title="Bread">bread</a> with a parched throat. It is an <a href="/wiki/Insult" class="mw-redirect" title="Insult">insult</a> to a starving man to teach him <a href="/wiki/Metaphysics" title="Metaphysics">metaphysics</a>.</figcaption></figure> <ul><li>Who wants a <a href="/wiki/World" title="World">world</a> in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the <a href="/wiki/Risk" title="Risk">risk</a> of <a href="/wiki/Dying" class="mw-redirect" title="Dying">dying</a> of <a href="/wiki/Boredom" title="Boredom">boredom</a>? <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raoul_Vaneigem" class="extiw" title="w:Raoul Vaneigem">Raoul Vaneigem</a>, in <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.co.in/books?id=B6AbDgAIABEC&pg=PA8">Heraclitus in Sacramento</a>,</i> (1 May 2006), p. 8</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>As a matter of fact <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiritualism" class="extiw" title="w:Spiritualism">spiritualism</a> cannot progress amidst <a href="/wiki/Poverty" title="Poverty">poverty</a> and starvation. <a href="/wiki/Religion" title="Religion">Religion</a> and spiritualism are meaningless to a man who cries out for a piece of <a href="/wiki/Bread" title="Bread">bread</a> with a parched throat. It is an <a href="/wiki/Insult" class="mw-redirect" title="Insult">insult</a> to a starving man to teach him <a href="/wiki/Metaphysics" title="Metaphysics">metaphysics</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Swami_Vivekananda" title="Swami Vivekananda">Swami Vivekananda</a>, in <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.co.in/books?id=ZLmFDRortS0C&pg=PA69">Swami Vivekananda: Messiah of Resurgent India</a>,</i> (1 January 2003), p. 69</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>With the <a href="/wiki/Sense" class="mw-redirect" title="Sense">sense</a> of possession comes <a href="/wiki/Selfishness" title="Selfishness">selfishness</a> and under its <a href="/wiki/Influence" class="mw-redirect" title="Influence">influence</a> man never thinks for common good, that clears the path for starvation of others. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Swami_Vivekananda" title="Swami Vivekananda">Swami Vivekananda</a>, in "Swami Vivekananda: Messiah of Resurgent India (1 January 2003)", p. 69</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>...in the name of civilizing our country [India] they exploited our country making us poorer day by day. There were perpetual <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famine" class="extiw" title="w:Famine">famine</a> and starvation in India. But the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_raj" class="extiw" title="w:British raj">British</a> had always been callous to it. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Swami_Vivekananda" title="Swami Vivekananda">Swami Vivekananda</a>, in "Swami Vivekananda: Messiah of Resurgent India (1 January 2003)", p. 185</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cultural" class="mw-redirect" title="Cultural">Culturally</a> it was a time of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_stagnation" class="extiw" title="w:Economic stagnation">stagnation</a>. <a href="/wiki/Poverty" title="Poverty">Poverty</a> and starvation were the common <a href="/wiki/Phenomenon" title="Phenomenon">phenomenon</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Society" title="Society">society</a>. The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Government" class="extiw" title="w:British Government">imperial power</a> invested huge capital in India and made enormous profit. The British looked upon India as a place where capital could hope to maintain a <a href="/wiki/Heaven" title="Heaven">heaven</a>. But <a href="/wiki/Paradoxical" class="mw-redirect" title="Paradoxical">paradoxically</a> enough, the Indian masses were rotting in poverty and starvation. Thus a great <a href="/w/index.php?title=Predicament&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Predicament (page does not exist)">predicament</a>, surrounded India in the 18th and 19th centuries. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Swami_Vivekananda" title="Swami Vivekananda">Swami Vivekananda</a>, in "Swami Vivekananda: Messiah of Resurgent India (1 January 2003)", pp. 205-06</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>They have sucked out <a href="/wiki/Blood" title="Blood">blood</a>, they have carried away with them millions of our money, while our people have starved. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Swami_Vivekananda" title="Swami Vivekananda">Swami Vivekananda</a>, in "Swami Vivekananda: Messiah of Resurgent India (1 January 2003)", p. 291</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Twenty years from 1860-1908 were the years of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famine" class="extiw" title="w:Famine">famine</a>. Nearly 29 million people died during famines from 1854-1901. These famines revealed that <a href="/wiki/Poverty" title="Poverty">poverty</a> and chronic starvation had taken firm roots in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial_India" class="extiw" title="w:Colonial India">colonial India</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Swami_Vivekananda" title="Swami Vivekananda">Swami Vivekananda</a>, in "Swami Vivekananda: Messiah of Resurgent India (1 January 2003)", p. 291</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>...amidst wretchedness, <a href="/wiki/Poverty" title="Poverty">poverty</a> and starvation it is too difficult to <a href="/wiki/Preach" class="mw-redirect" title="Preach">preach</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advaita" class="extiw" title="w:Advaita">Advaitism</a> and realize the grand <a href="/wiki/Dream" class="mw-redirect" title="Dream">dream</a> of Universal Unity...poor must be given <a href="/wiki/Bread" title="Bread">bread</a> first and then <a href="/wiki/Religion" title="Religion">religion</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Swami_Vivekananda" title="Swami Vivekananda">Swami Vivekananda</a>, in "Swami Vivekananda: Messiah of Resurgent India (1 January 2003)", p. 353</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>...the imperialistic drain of <a href="/wiki/Wealth" title="Wealth">wealth</a> from the backward parts of the <a href="/wiki/Globe" class="mw-redirect" title="Globe">globe</a> and its piling up in capitalistic areas of the <a href="/wiki/West" class="mw-redirect" title="West">West</a> that causes poverty and starvation in one part and plentitude in another part of the <a href="/wiki/World" title="World">world</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Swami_Vivekananda" title="Swami Vivekananda">Swami Vivekananda</a>, in "Swami Vivekananda: Messiah of Resurgent India (1 January 2003)", p. 353</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I was <a href="/wiki/Dying" class="mw-redirect" title="Dying">dying</a> of starvation, barefooted I went from office to office and was refused everywhere. I learnt by <a href="/wiki/Experience" title="Experience">experience</a> what <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compassion" class="extiw" title="w:Compassion">human compassion</a> is. This was my first contact with realities of <a href="/wiki/Life" title="Life">life</a>; and I discovered it...had no room for the weak, the poor, the deserted. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Swami_Vivekananda" title="Swami Vivekananda">Swami Vivekananda</a>, in "Swami Vivekananda: Messiah of Resurgent India (1 January 2003)", p. 7</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="W">W</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Starvation&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: W"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>It has to be admitted that starving <a href="/wiki/Nations" title="Nations">nations</a> never seem to be quite so starving that they cannot afford to have far more expensive <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/armaments" class="extiw" title="w:armaments">armaments</a> than anybody else. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/T.H._White" class="mw-redirect" title="T.H. White">T.H. White</a>, in <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.co.in/books?id=Fp1gAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT84">The Once and Future King</a>,</i> (17 April 2014), p. 84</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="X">X</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Starvation&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: X"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Y">Y</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Starvation&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Y"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/People" class="mw-redirect" title="People">People</a> who lean on <a href="/wiki/Logic" title="Logic">logic</a> and <a href="/wiki/Philosophy" title="Philosophy">philosophy</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational" class="extiw" title="w:Rational">rational</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exposition" class="extiw" title="w:Exposition">exposition</a> end by starving the best part of the <a href="/wiki/Mind" title="Mind">mind</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Butler_Yeats" title="William Butler Yeats">William Butler Yeats</a>, in <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.co.in/books?id=-T3QhPjIxhIC&pg=PA417">Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing</a>,</i> (2006), p. 417</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>In some parts of the <a href="/wiki/World" title="World">world</a>, students are going to <a href="/wiki/School" class="mw-redirect" title="School">school</a> every day. It's their normal <a href="/wiki/Life" title="Life">life</a>. But in other parts of the world, we are starving for <a href="/wiki/Education" title="Education">education</a>... it's like a precious <a href="/wiki/Gift" class="mw-redirect" title="Gift">gift</a>. It's like a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond" class="extiw" title="w:Diamond">diamond</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Malala_Yousafzai" title="Malala Yousafzai">Malala Yousafzai</a>, in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://abcnews.go.com/International/malala-yousafzai-death-kill/story?id=20489800">Malala Yousafzai: 'Death Did Not Want to Kill Me' (6 October 2013)</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Z">Z</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Starvation&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Z"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Paris" title="Paris">Paris</a> is the only city in the <a href="/wiki/World" title="World">world</a> where starving to <a href="/wiki/Death" title="Death">death</a> is still considered an <a href="/wiki/Art" title="Art">art</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Carlos_Ruiz_Zaf%C3%B3n" title="Carlos Ruiz Zafón">Carlos Ruiz Zafón</a>, in <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.co.in/books?id=ggvVsFqeCqYC&pg=PA68">The Shadow of the Wind</a>,</i> (25 January 2005), p. 68</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Anonymous">Anonymous</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Starvation&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Anonymous"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="See_also">See also</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Starvation&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Famine" title="Famine">Famine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hunger" title="Hunger">Hunger</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Starvation&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="noprint" style="clear: right; 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