Hunger, Eating, and Health Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• digestion : the gastrointestinal process of breaking down food and absorbing its constituents into the body.
• cephalic phase : the preparatory phase, it often begins with the sight, smell, or even just the thought of food.
• insulin : the hormone that promotes the use of glucose and storage of nutrients.
• appetizer effect : the phenomenon where eating small amounts of food before a meal increases hunger.
• hunger : the motivation to eat.
• glucostatic theory : the theory that hunger results from low blood glucose levels.
• satiety : the feeling or motivational state that causes us to stop eating.
• bulimia nervosa : a disorder characterized by periods of not eating, interrupted by bingeing (eating huge amounts of food in short periods of time)
• sham eating : an experimental setup showing that satiety does not depend on food reaching the stomach.
• gastric bypass : a surgical treatment for extreme obesity that involves short-circuiting the normal path of food through the digestive tract so that its absorption is reduced.
• positive incentive theory : the theory that we eat because of the anticipated pleasure of eating.
• premeal hunger : this occurs because the body anticipates food and prepares for digestion