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Calories Food Energy And Energy Balance

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Double Quarter Pounder w/cheese






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






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






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






5. Large Cola






6. Sugar = _____






7. Ketchup Packet






8. Steak = ______






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






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






11. Triple Whopper






12. Oil = _____






13. Where's the energy in foods?






14. Activity level affects the total ______ and accounts for second highest number of calories expended.






15. A calorie measures for ______________.






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






17. Measureing _____ in people is much more expensive.






18. The basic caloric need for Men =______






19. The basic caloric need for Women = ______






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






21. A calorie measures for ______________.






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






23. The greatest energy use is _____.






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






25. ______ provide over twice the calories per unit weiht than carbohydrates and protein do.






26. 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: ______________________






27. Most foods contain a mixture of _____.






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






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






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






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






32. The energy in fat is ____ kcals/g






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






34. The energy in carbohydrates is ___ kcals/g






35. Body has several mechanisms designed to ____ caloric value and has fewer ways available to discourage caloric intake






36. Steak = ______






37. Activity level affects the total ______ and accounts for second highest number of calories expended.






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






39. Oil = _____






40. Basal metabolism includes _________.






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






42. Chicken McNuggets






43. A diet with no _____ would waste out body away.






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






45. Body has several mechanisms designed to ____ caloric value and has fewer ways available to discourage caloric intake






46. Most foods contain a mixture of _____.






47. Most foods are a _____.






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






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






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