Balanced Diet - a diet that contains adequate amounts of all the necessary nutrients required for healthy growth and activity
Hunger - A condition in which people do not get enough food to provide the nutrients for fully productive, active, and healthy lives
Malnutrition – A broad term for a range of conditions that hinder good health, caused by inadequate or unbalanced food intake or from poor absorption of food consumed.
Famine - An extreme scarcity or shortage of food. According to the UN, a region is famine-stricken when over 20% of households don’t get the recommended caloric intake.
Farmers Market – A market where consumers can purchase fresh produce and other food items (such as meat, dairy products, and baked goods) directly from small to medium-sized farmers.
Food security - Assured access to enough nutritious food to sustain an active and healthy life, including food availability, food access and appropriate food use.
Food rescue - The practice of obtaining prepared food from restaurants, packaging it according to health codes, and making it available to feeding programs.
Kwashiorkor - A condition caused by Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) that is characterized by bilateral pitting oedema. Micronutrient Deficiency - a lack of vitamins and minerals in the body
Poverty - The lack of basic human needs, such as clean and freshwater, nutrition, health care, education, clothing and shelter, because of the inability to afford them.
Starvation - suffering or death caused by having nothing to eat or not enough to eat. World Hunger - the want or scarcity of food in a country aggregated to the world level
