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






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






3. Ketchup Packet






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






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






6. The energy in alcohol is ____ kcals/g






7. Where's the energy in foods?






8. 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: ______________________






9. Big Mac






10. What is appetite?






11. Calories = ________ - not nutrients.






12. The basic caloric need for Women = ______






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






14. Chicken Selects Premium Breast Strips






15. Large French Fries






16. Basal metabolism includes _________.






17. What is dietary thermogenesis?






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






25. The energy in carbohydrates is ___ kcals/g






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






27. Double Quarter Pounder w/cheese






28. Most foods contain a mixture of _____.






29. Chicken McNuggets






30. We need energy to maintain _______.






31. Most foods contain a mixture of _____.






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






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






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






35. Energy makes most ______ reaction happen.






36. Most foods are a _____.






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






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






39. Big Mac






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






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






42. Basal metabolism includes _________.






43. Total caloric need =______________________.






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






45. Measureing _____ in people is much more expensive.






46. Chicken Caesar Salad






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






48. Large French Fries






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.