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- 5. may use this link to create a Crossword Puzzle with your terms! www.crosswordlabs.comLinks to an external site.. When completed, email the link to your instructor to print it, then "do" the puzzle in class!
- 8. Meal Sites: Nutritional programs that provide meals to homebound older adults and persons with disabilities.
- 9. Pantry: An organization or group that sorts and packages donated food items for distribution directly to people in need.
- 11. Danger Zone: The temperature range from 35℉ - 135℉ in which food-borne bacteria can multiply to unsafe levels.
- 13. 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.
- 14. Eating Disorder: This is characterized by regular episodes of extreme overeating and feelings of loss of control over eating.
- 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 over eating.
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- 1. 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.
- 3. Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP): A food and nutrition service that works with state agencies nutrition educators, and neighborhood and faith-based
- 4. Bank: A warehouse or storehouse for millions of pounds of food and other products that go out to the community.
- 6. 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.
- 7. 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 a church or community groups.
- 10. Contamination: The process by which bacteria is unintentionally transferred from one food or object to another.
- 12. 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.