Concepts of Nutrition

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Across
  1. 2. intakes: How much of certain things a person should be eating during the day.
  2. 4. Nourishment or energy obtained from food consumed.
  3. 5. food intakes: What it is a person actually eats during the course of a day.
  4. 6. nutrient intakes: the amount of a nutrient that is enough to ensure that the needs of nearly all the population are met.
  5. 8. A persons regularly consumed food and drink.
  6. 9. Inadequate nutrition resulting from lack of food or failure of the body to absorb nutrients.
  7. 11. Being grossly overweight
  8. 13. Being above weight considered normal.
Down
  1. 1. and energy balance: The amount of calories taken in and how much is burned by the body.
  2. 3. A lack of proper nutrition, caused by not having enough to eat, not eating enough of the right things, or being unable to use the food that we do eat.
  3. 7. reference values: A set of nutrient recommendations.
  4. 10. A lack or shortage of something.
  5. 12. mass index: An approximate measure of whether someone is over or underweight, calculated by dividing their weight by their height.
  6. 14. charts: A chart followed by health care providers that follow growth over time.