Alzheimers and Diabetes - Ways to Fight Them

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Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. Sweet food that grows on plants (plural) (6)
  2. 5. A progressive form of presenile dementia that is similar to senile dementia except that it usually (10)
  3. 6. Any of several elongated, threadlike cells (5)
  4. 10. Physical activity that keeps you fit (8)
  5. 11. Hormone secreted by the isles of Langerhans in the pancreas (7)
  6. 13. A relatively small granular particle of a substance (plural) (6)
  7. 15. A light informal meal (plural) (6)
  8. 16. That part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers (5)

Down

  1. 1. Animal flesh eaten as food (4)
  2. 2. Food and nutrients the body needs to grow (9)
  3. 4. An individual quantity of food or drink taken as part of a meal (plural) (8)
  4. 7. Any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae used for food (plural) (5)
  5. 8. A dish served as the last course of a meal (plural) (6)
  6. 9. Sweet white crystals added to food (5)
  7. 12. Greasy substance in food and body tissue (plural) (4)
  8. 14. White drink that comes from cows (4)