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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 French Fries






2. What is a bomb calorimeter?






3. Oil = _____






4. A calorie measures for ______________.






5. What is appetite?






6. Ketchup Packet






7. Double Quarter Pounder w/cheese






8. Chicken Caesar Salad






9. Most foods are a _____.






10. Chicken McNuggets






11. Most foods are a _____.






12. What is a bomb calorimeter?






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






14. Chicken Selects Premium Breast Strips






15. Triple Whopper






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






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






18. Measureing _____ in people is much more expensive.






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






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






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






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






23. Steak = ______






24. We need energy to maintain _______.






25. The greatest energy use is _____.






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






27. The energy in fat is ____ kcals/g






28. Chicken Caesar Salad






29. What is dietary thermogenesis?






30. The basic caloric need for Men =______






31. Large Cola






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






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






34. Basal metabolism (____-_____%)






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






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






37. Steak = ______






38. The energy in protein is ____ kcals/g






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






40. Large French Fries






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






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






43. Double Stack






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






45. The energy in carbohydrates is ___ kcals/g






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






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






48. Double Stack






49. The energy in alcohol is ____ kcals/g






50. Where's the energy in foods?