Understand food management principles, issues, and practices that face individuals, families, and communities.

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  1. 3. 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.
  2. 4. Nutritional programs that provide meals to homebound older adults and persons with disabilities.
  3. 7. This is characterized by weight loss often due to excessive dieting and exercise, sometimes to the point of starvation.
  4. 8. An organization or group that sorts and packages donated food items for distribution directly to people in need.
  5. 9. The condition is marked by cycles of extreme overeating, known as bingeing, followed by purging or other behaviors to compensate for the overeating.
  6. 11. The temperature range from 40 to 140 degrees F in which food-borne bacteria can grow.
  7. 12. 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.
  8. 13. 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.
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  1. 1. This is characterized by regular episodes of extreme overeating and feelings of loss of control about eating.
  2. 2. A warehouse or storehouse for millions of pounds of food and other products that go out to the community.
  3. 5. 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.
  4. 6. The process by which bacteria is unintentionally transferred from one food or object to another.
  5. 10. 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.