Vocab Choice Board

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  1. 3. Adoption involves adopters from a different ethnic or cultural background from that of the child.
  2. 5. (national) adoption involves adopters who live in the same country as the child.
  3. 7. Desert: These are geographic areas that lack access to affordable fruits, vegetables, whole grains, low fat milk, and other foods that make up the full range of a healthy diet, particularly for those without access to an automobile.
  4. 9. School Lunch Program: Administered at the state-level by the NC Department of Public Instruction to offer free and reduced priced meals to children from families who qualify.
  5. 10. Bank: A warehouse or storehouse for millions of pounds of food and other products that go out to the community.
  6. 12. Adoption is a form of adoption that has the effect of conferring legal rights and duties, but undertaken by a process that is not legal (e.g. by the adopters accepting someone else's child and registering him/her as though he/she were their birth child).
  7. 15. Nervosa: The condition is marked by cycles of extreme overeating, known as bingeing, followed by purging or other behaviors to compensate for the overeating. It is also associated with feelings of loss of control about eating.
  8. 16. legal transfer of parental rights and responsibilities for a child which is permanent.
  9. 17. a child's basic physical, emotional, intellectual and social needs are met by his or her caregivers and the child is developing according to his or her potential.
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  1. 1. or intercountry adoption involves adopters who live in a different country as the child.
  2. 2. Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC): Program that provides federal grants to states for supplemental foods, health care referrals, and nutrition education for low-income pregnant, breastfeeding, and non-breastfeeding postpartum women, and infants and children up to age five who are found to be at nutritional risk Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP): A food and nutrition service that works with state agencies nutrition educators, and neighborhood and faith-based organizations to offer nutrition assistance to millions of eligible, low-income individuals and families and provides economics benefits to communities.
  3. 4. Kitchen: A meal center or food kitchen where food is offered to the hungry for free or at a below market price, frequently located in lower-income neighborhoods and often staffed by volunteer organizations, such as church or community groups.
  4. 6. Contamination: The process by which bacteria is unintentionally transferred from one food or object to another.
  5. 7. Pantry: An organization or group that sorts and packages donated food items for distribution directly to people in need.
  6. 8. Zone: The temperature range from 40 to 140 degrees F in which food-borne bacteria can grow.
  7. 11. Parental Care
  8. 13. Meal Sites: Nutritional programs that provide meals to homebound older adults and persons with disabilities.
  9. 14. Nervosa: This is characterized by weight loss often due to excessive dieting and exercise, sometimes to the point of starvation. People with anorexia can never be thin enough and continue to see themselves as “fat” despite extreme weight loss. Binge Eating Disorder: This is characterized by regular episodes of extreme overeating and feelings of loss of control about eating.