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Calories Food Energy And Energy Balance

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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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. Eating leads to ____ (feeling of enough food has been eaten - but not stuffed)






2. Dietary thermogenesis (____% of basal and physical activity calories)






3. Triple Whopper






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






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






6. Chicken Selects Premium Breast Strips






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






8. Sugar = _____






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






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






11. Basal metabolism (____-_____%)






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






13. Where's the energy in foods?






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






15. Most foods are a _____.






16. What is hunger?






17. Energy makes most ______ reaction happen.






18. What is dietary thermogenesis?






19. We need energy for ____: exercise - activity of daily living.






20. Ketchup Packet






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






22. We ___ weight when caloric intake is less than the body's need for energy.






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






24. The basic caloric need for Men =______






25. Chicken Caesar Salad






26. Most foods are a mixture and we call it a ______ food.






27. What is dietary thermogenesis?






28. Chicken Caesar Salad






29. We ___ weight when caloric intake is less than the body's need for energy.






30. Chicken Selects Premium Breast Strips






31. A calorie measures for ______________.






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






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






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






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






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






37. Big Mac






38. Chicken McNuggets






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






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






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






42. We need energy for ____: exercise - activity of daily living.






43. We need energy to ______: digest your food






44. What is a bomb calorimeter?






45. Calories = ________ - not nutrients.






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






47. The energy in fat is ____ kcals/g






48. What is hunger?






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






50. People have different ____ for hunger and satiety.