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Hunger may be good for you

Last updated Wednesday, June 19, 2013 - 4:57pm

Many experiments have demonstrated that eating about 30 percent less than needed to keep up with the body’s energy needs extends longevity and improves health in animals ranging from the humble earthworm to rhesus monkeys. Humans who try calorie restriction appear to reduce their risk of heart disease and diabetes, and improve their immune function. There’s even some evidence that calorie restriction reduces the risk of Alzheimer’s disease -- in mice and monkeys, at least.

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This undated photo provided by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) shows a plate with insects during an insect cuisine competition at an unknown location in Laos. The U.N. has new weapons to fight hunger, boost nutrition and reduce pollution, and they might be crawling or flying near you right now: edible insects. The Food and Agriculture Organization on Monday, May 13, 2013, hailed the likes of grasshoppers, ants and other members of the insect world as an underutilized food for people, livestock and pets. A 200-page report, released at a news conference at the U.N. agency's Rome headquarters, says 2 billion people worldwide already supplement their diets with insects, which are high in protein and minerals, and have environmental benefits. (AP Photo/Thomas Calame, FAO, ho)

UN wants people to eat more bugs

Frances D'Emilio The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, May 13, 2013 - 9:25am

ROME -- The U.N. has new weapons to fight hunger, boost nutrition and reduce pollution, and they might be crawling or flying near you right now: edible insects.

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Ten-year-old Taylor Mantz helps her dad, Ryan Mantz, fill food bags last Saturday for Alpine Church’s Feed My Starving Children project. (Rachel Trotter/Standard-Examiner correspondent)

Alpine Church members prepare nutritious meals for starving people the world over

Rachel J. Trotter Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, January 4, 2013 - 2:40pm

RIVERDALE — Congregations of the Alpine Church in Riverdale and Layton didn’t spend a lot of time relaxing between Christmas and New Year’s — they spent their time serving.

Members of the church completed three big projects in the few days following Christmas, and finished off their holiday celebrations by filling more than 200,000 food packets worth $44,000 for the Feed My Starving Children nonprofit organization.

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A bowl of soup sits on the floor where guests chosen to represent the low-income bracket sat during the Hunger Banquet in 2011 at Weber State University. (NICK SHORT/Standard-Examiner)

Banquet highlights horror of world hunger

Jamie Lampros Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, November 16, 2012 - 8:53pm

OGDEN — It was a little disheartening for Dylan Hansel when he was served bread and water for dinner Thursday night, especially when there were others around him eating pizza and dining on rosemary chicken.

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Taira McMurray,left, and two of her neighbors Kali Hamel, right, and Angeleigh Koford get a box of free food from a group of volunteers organized by Weber State University Student Patricia Erdman who delivered food, donated by Smiths supermarket, to people in need in Clearfield Friday.
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Weber State student leads group that helps feed the hungry

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, May 21, 2012 - 9:38pm

CLEARFIELD -- Patricia Erdman helps feed strangers, and they, in turn, feed her spirit.

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Utah Stamp Out Hunger food drive Saturday

Contributed Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, May 11, 2012 - 11:33am

OGDEN -- Letter carriers and hunger have one thing in common: neither is impacted by the season. On Saturday the two will merge as letter carriers collect food during the annual Stamp Out Hunger! food drive, sponsored nationally by the National Association of Letter Carriers.

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The summer to-do list that, this year, really will get done

Charles F. Trentelman Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, April 2, 2012 - 5:58pm

OK, gang, this is it: The summer I do everything I am supposed to do. Yeah, I know. I said that last year. And the year before. And the year before.

Didn’t happen.

But it will this year. What will I do?

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(Photo by Mary-Ann Muffoletto, USU College of Natural Resources) From left, Utah State graduate students Joshua Kuensting of the USU Ceramics Guild, and Megan Schwender and Alicia Langton of the Natural Resources Graduate Student Council, gather bowls for Utah State’s first Empty Bowls Luncheon on Thursday.

USU students sell bowls of soup to feed the needy

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, March 27, 2012 - 7:02pm

LOGAN — A group of Utah State University graduate students is asking you to fill your soup bowl to support those who can’t.

The students will sponsor an Empty Bowls lunch Thursday in Logan. The premise: Organizers sell soup donated by local restaurants and serve it in handmade bowls that the diners take home. Money raised is donated to a food-related charity — in this case, Cache Community Food Pantry — and participants get a reminder to support hunger charities every time they open their kitchen cabinet and see their homemade bowl.

“It’s a national movement that began in North Carolina,” said USU grad student Megan Schwender. “As an undergraduate in Maine, I participated in an Empty Bowl event, and when I came here for school, I realized we could fill a niche.”

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Church needs help for food bank

JaNae Francis Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, February 17, 2012 - 3:31pm

OGDEN -- A leader at a church with a mission to feed the hungry is hoping that some area businesses and individuals will step up and help.

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Sheri Stalworth eats a nice meal of lasagna and salad at an elevated table, as others have soup on the floor during the hunger banquet on Monday at Weber State University in Ogden.

Hunger dinner raises awareness of poverty in Ogden

JaNae Francis Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, November 22, 2011 - 10:01pm

OGDEN -- At a dinner Monday night at Weber State University, nearly half of those in attendance were seated on the bare floor and received soup, bread and water for their meal.

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Food donations due for banquet tickets

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Sunday, November 13, 2011 - 11:46pm

OGDEN — Drop your donation of canned foods off today to get an invitation to Weber State University Community Involvement Center’s first Hunger Banquet.

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Dinner at Marshall White Center to help fight hunger

Staff Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, October 28, 2011 - 4:24pm

OGDEN -- A free community dinner will be the main highlight of the Congregational United Church of Christ's 11-day campaign to address food injustice in the community and around the world.

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Marcie Valdez, director of Catholic Community Services, holds an old can of peanut butter Tuesday that was donated to the Joyce Hansen Hall Food Bank in Ogden.

Inedible but intriguing: Old peanut butter can donated to food bank

Jamie Lampros Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, September 17, 2011 - 11:34pm

OGDEN -- An old can of peanut butter discovered at Catholic Community Services just might be worth something to the world of collectors.

During the Boy Scout food drive in March, a can of Peter Pan Peanut Butter made by Derby was found among the donations, said Catholic Community Services Director Marcie Valdez.

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Summit: Weber agencies' problems growing along with clients' woes

Charles F. Trentelman Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, September 16, 2011 - 11:51pm

OGDEN -- Federal money to help the Top of Utah's poor is drying up as the number of people looking for help is rising, putting agencies that work with the poor in a financial bind.

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Volunteers unload bottled water to hand out to 400 families in need at Your Community Connection in Ogden on Friday. YCC teamed up with Feed the Children, an international Christian group.

Feed the Children, YCC help 400 Top of Utah families

Jamie Lampros Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, September 2, 2011 - 11:23pm

OGDEN -- Four hundred families got a week's worth of food on Friday.

Your Community Connection and Feed the Children, an international Christian group, distributed food boxes to some of the most needy families in the community.

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