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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. Large Cola






2. What is a bomb calorimeter?






3. Total caloric need =______________________.






4. What is a bomb calorimeter?






5. Calories = ________ - not nutrients.






6. People have different ____ for hunger and satiety.






7. 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: ______________________






8. The energy in protein is ____ kcals/g






9. Sugar = _____






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






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






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






13. Basal metabolism (____-_____%)






14. Large French Fries






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






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






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






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






19. What is dietary thermogenesis?






20. Large Cola






21. What is hunger?






22. The basic caloric need for Men =______






23. Energy makes most ______ reaction happen.






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






25. Chicken McNuggets






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






27. Double Stack






28. Sugar = _____






29. Chicken McNuggets






30. Where's the energy in foods?






31. The energy in carbohydrates is ___ kcals/g






32. Measureing _____ in people is much more expensive.






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






34. Double Quarter Pounder w/cheese






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






36. Triple Whopper






37. Big Mac






38. Big Mac






39. The basic caloric need for Men =______






40. Where's the energy in foods?






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






42. A calorie measures for ______________.






43. The energy in fat is ____ kcals/g






44. Measureing _____ in people is much more expensive.






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






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






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






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






49. Steak = ______






50. We need energy to maintain _______.