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Calories Food Energy And Energy Balance

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1. Basal metabolsim: some tissue is more _______ active than others (fat versus muscle.)






2. The energy in protein is ____ kcals/g






3. Basal metabolism is especially ___ during the growing years.






4. Chicken Selects Premium Breast Strips






5. Chicken Selects Premium Breast Strips






6. Most foods are a mixture and we call it a carb - protein - or fat food but really it is a mixture of thre almost all cases: ______________________






7. A calorie measures for ______________.






8. Sugar = _____






9. Double Quarter Pounder w/cheese






10. People tend to ______ their activity level: only include the time you actually spend working out. (not talking to your friends between sets)






11. We need energy to maintain _______.






12. The basic caloric need for Women = ______






13. The body is generally _____% efficient - so the numbers are very close to dietary calories.






14. Large Cola






15. A (metric) calorie is the amount of energy (heat) required to raise 1 kilogram of ____ 1 degree centigrade.






16. We call mixture by a ____ or handle in order to make teaching about nutrition easier.






17. The energy in fat is ____ kcals/g






18. Energy makes most ______ reaction happen.






19. What is hunger?






20. Eating leads to ____ (feeling of enough food has been eaten - but not stuffed)






21. Calories are measured by buring food in a sealed container called a ______.






22. We need energy to ______: digest your food






23. Where's the energy in foods?






24. The body's energy nutrients sources are _______.






25. Big Mac






26. The reason why we need energy fits into three categories: _______________.






27. Double Quarter Pounder w/cheese






28. The energy in alcohol is ____ kcals/g






29. One dietary '____' = one kilocalorie (kcal)






30. The basic caloric need for Men =______






31. Calories = ________ - not nutrients.






32. Sugar = _____






33. Chicken Caesar Salad






34. We need energy for ______: throughout the life cycle.






35. Calories are not _____ - they are a measure of energy content.






36. In old days there was not need to regulate ______ because there was no overabundance of food.






37. In the old days in times of a feast we ________.






38. We need energy for _____: pregnancy - lactation - infancy - childhood - to some extent adolescence






39. Most foods are a _____.






40. Most foods contain a mixture of _____.






41. Basal metabolsim: some tissue is more _______ active than others (fat versus muscle.)






42. We ____ weight when caloric intake exceeds the body's need for energy.






43. In the old days in times of famine we_______.






44. Double Stack






45. A (metric) calorie is the amount of energy (heat) required to raise 1 kilogram of ____ 1 degree centigrade.






46. Most foods contain a mixture of _____.






47. Total caloric need =______________________.






48. Physical Activity ( ____- ____% of that needed for basal metabolism from sedentary (light) to heavy; average activity requires 50% x 'basal' calories)






49. Body fats for individual energy around ____% of BMR.






50. The basic caloric need for Men =______







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