Food. What can I best say about food? Well for starters, I do love food. Simply put, I'm a foodie. When it comes to exploring, traveling, on-the-go, or just needing a simple night in, I love concocting and trying out all sorts of different recipes and dishes. With a variety of cultures (Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Ethiopian, Italian, French, etc.), heritages, and backgrounds meshing together as one, food best serves as the glue which brings and holds people together. Food has become such a prevalent part of today's westernizing society when it comes to social occasions, holidays, family gatherings, cooking shows (hello Food Network), or just needing to be on-the-go 24/7. Most of all, food is a necessity for all sources of life. We need food to survive healthily, mentally, physically, emotionally, and naturally. That is a fact. The side effects of food-that is a whole other story.

You ever heard the term what you eat is what you are? That term is more coined towards disgusting and trashy over-the-counter junk food and fast-food joints suited for those late-night drunchies (cough cough, McDonald's and Taco Bell).

Ever experience moments of light-headedness, weakness, crankiness, and anxiousness when you don't eat for a certain period of time? Does it cause you to go crazy-in addition to affecting your blood sugar or mind? Do you sometimes feel that you want to kill someone or just hide out from the world? You, my friend, have experienced the side-effects of hangriness.

A combination of hunger and anger, hanger/hangry/hangriness has become a popular term coined in today's modern vocabulary. Especially when describing one's lack of food state. Most think that hanger is resulted based on a state of mind. Bullshit. Hanger is best described as an indiscriminate illness that affects all.

It's a known fact that as the older you get, your body changes. Hormonally, physically, naturally, basically the whole 360. As humans, we are constantly evolving in all aspects of life.This includes changes in dietary needs, shifts in metabolism, and sources of appetite. Most of all, the devil of hunger pangs.

Any current and former college student can relate to hunger pangs and late-night cravings. They can happen at the most unexpected times in the day. The worst is at night (especially finals week) when working on assignments or pulling all-nighters for projects, tests, exams, and papers. It doesn't matter the complete meals one can eat in a day (or even at night), cravings for certain foods are to be expected (usually fatty and fried foods and the ridiculously tempting sweets). Speaking from a last semester college senior perspective, i can relate 100% to hunger pangs and late-night cravings since I am a sucker for that yummy Chik-Fil-A sandwich and sweet tea, pizza, and styrofoam cup of ramen noodles (stereotypical college kid right here).

Food. We all need food to survive this (hopefully) everlasting life. Whether it's for social occasions, get-togethers, or just needing to be on-the-go, food is there to help guide and satiate us for a good portion of the day. How we balance and figure out what we put in our bodies is another story. Let's cherish the food and drink we have on this earth and be mindful of our daily sources to this everlasting and blissful life, regardless of how hangry we can be at times.

"For he satisfies the thirsty and fills the hungry with good things" -Psalm 107:9