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






2. A calorie measures for ______________.






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






4. Calories = ________ - not nutrients.






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






6. Total caloric need =______________________.






7. Triple Whopper






8. Calories = ________ - not nutrients.






9. What is hunger?






10. What is dietary thermogenesis?






11. Energy makes most ______ reaction happen.






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






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






14. The energy in protein is ____ kcals/g






15. Oil = _____






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






17. Chicken Selects Premium Breast Strips






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






19. The energy in alcohol is ____ kcals/g






20. Chicken McNuggets






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






22. The greatest energy use is _____.






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






24. What is hunger?






25. The energy in protein is ____ kcals/g






26. Total caloric need =______________________.






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






28. Large Cola






29. Double Stack






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






31. 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: ______________________






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






33. Basal metabolism includes _________.






34. Most foods contain a mixture of _____.






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






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






37. We need energy to maintain _______.






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






39. People have different ____ for hunger and satiety.






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






41. The energy in alcohol is ____ kcals/g






42. Chicken Selects Premium Breast Strips






43. We need energy to maintain _______.






44. Steak = ______






45. The energy in fat is ____ kcals/g






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






47. What is appetite?






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






49. Large French Fries






50. The greatest energy use is _____.