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Calories Food Energy And Energy Balance

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. People tend to ______ their activity level: only include the time you actually spend working out. (not talking to your friends between sets)






2. Chicken McNuggets






3. Out bodies would find ways of getting calories from stored _____ - followed by fats and body proteins.






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






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






6. Calories = ________ - not nutrients.






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






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






9. What is dietary thermogenesis?






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






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






12. Where's the energy in foods?






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






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






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






16. The energy in alcohol is ____ kcals/g






17. A calorie measures for ______________.






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






19. The brain - liver - kidneys - and muscle account for ____% of BMR






20. What is hunger?






21. The energy in carbohydrates is ___ kcals/g






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






23. Energy makes most ______ reaction happen.






24. What is a bomb calorimeter?






25. Basal metabolism includes _________.






26. Sugar = _____






27. We need energy to ______: digest your food






28. Big Mac






29. The energy in fat is ____ kcals/g






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






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






32. Thermogenesis is about ____% of the sum BMR plus physical activity calories






33. Double Quarter Pounder w/cheese






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






35. Total caloric need =______________________.






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






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






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






39. We need energy to ______: digest your food






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






41. The energy in alcohol is ____ kcals/g






42. Chicken Caesar Salad






43. The energy in fat is ____ kcals/g






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






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






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






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






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






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






50. Double Stack