Across
- 5. offers little nutrition and lots of sugar calories; overall beverages provide 22 percent of calories and 50 percent of added sugar in the American diet, this contributes to it
- 7. hormone that stimulates appetite, increases food intake, and promotes fat storage
- 8. a serious illness of deliberate self-starvation with profound psychiatric and physical components
- 10. surgery to reduce weight
- 11. for many foods what is considered this today is 63 percent larger than the same food of yesteryear,
- 13. a condition characterized by disordered eating, lack of menstrual periods, and low age-adjusted bone density
- 15. state which has obesity rate of 28.4 percent
- 17. an eating disorder characterized by episodes of secretive binge eating and purging
- 19. a body shape characterized by a muscular, athletic body build
- 21. the body shape characterized by rounded physical features and large body frame
Down
- 1. a protein made in fat cells that controls weight gain and loss
- 2. highest ranking states in regards to obesity rate at 37 and 38 percent
- 3. the practice of eating large amounts of food in a short period of time
- 4. the theory that the body has a preference for maintaining a certain amount of weight and defends that weight quite vigorously
- 6. substance that increases water output and the body's need for water
- 9. the number of calories needed to sustain life
- 12. bypassing the stomach by rerouting the small intestines to a portion of the stomach about the size of an egg
- 14. state that has the lowest obesity rate in the United States at just under 23 percent
- 16. represents about 3500 calories
- 18. the body shape characterized by a thin body frame
- 20. gene linked to obesity and metabolic syndrome