Across
- 4. Essential nutrient stripped from fast food to increase shelf-life.
- 5. Single daily can increases a child's obesity risk dramatically.
- 10. Preventable lifestyle diseases now killing more people than malnutrition.
- 11. Energy unit; almond calories act differently than soda calories.
- 14. Simple sugar processed by liver similar to chronic alcohol.
- 15. Internal system overwhelmed by rapid spike in glucose levels.
- 16. Organ forced to process fructose directly into body fat.
Down
- 1. Hidden deep organ fat affecting apparently thin, active people.
- 2. Refined food engineered to bypass natural satiety body signals.
- 3. Thin outside, fat inside; slim people with visceral fat.
- 6. Modern health crisis doubling global rates despite exercise push.
- 7. Lab mice chose sugar over cocaine in brain studies.
- 8. Food industry pressure that altered official government dietary guidelines.
- 9. Disease predicted to strike one in three Americans soon.
- 12. Energy storage hormone that turns excess sugar into fat.
- 13. Substance found in eighty percent of packaged supermarket foods.