Hunger

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Hunger is a physical sensation experienced when the glycogen level of the liver falls below a threshold, usually followed by a desire to eat.

Hunger may also refer to:

• Malnutrition, a general term for the medical condition caused by an improper or insufficient diet
• Air hunger, the sensation of the urge to breathe
• The Great Hunger, the famine in Ireland between 1845 and 1849

Film and television

• Hunger (1966 film), a Norwegian film based on Knut Hamsun's novel (see below)
• Hunger (2001 film), an American film based on Hamsun's novel
• Hunger (2008 film), a film about Irish hunger striker Bobby Sands
• The Hunger (1983 film), a horror film starting Catherine Deneuve and David Bowie based on Whitley Strieber's novel (see below)
• The Hunger (TV series), an English horror television show
• "Hunger" (Dilbert episode)

Literature

• Hunger (novel), a novel by Knut Hamsun
• The Hunger (novel), a novel by Whitley Strieber
• Hunger (Gone series), the second novel in the Gone series by Michael Grant

Music

• The Hunger (band), an American alternative rock band
• The Hunger (album), an album by Michael Bolton
• The Hunger (Seven Day Jesus album)
• "The Hunger" (The Distillers song)
• "The Hunger", a song by Steve Holy from Blue Moon

People

• Herbert Hunger, Austrian Byzantine scholar
• Saint Hunger, Bishop of Utrecht 854 - 866

See also

• All pages beginning with Hunger
• Unger
• Ungar
• Hungry (disambiguation)

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