It is not one discrete event, but a sequence of events that leads up to and follows a lack of adequate food intake. It is the process in which people become at risk of hunger , attempt to cope with the problem, and suffer a variety of health and social consequences. Food security and hunger policy for the 1990s. Hunger is at once the most common and broadly descriptive term and the most difficult to define specifically. In simplest terms, hunger can be described as inadequate access to food for short or long periods of time.
Hunger is more than a sensation.
Source U.S. House of Representatives, Subcommittee on Domestic Marketing, Consumer Relations, and Nutrition of the Committee on Agriculture. Hunger in the United States and related issues. Testimony by I.H. Rosenberg. U.S. Government Printing Office. Source Governor's Task Force on Hunger .