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Calories Food Energy And Energy Balance

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  • 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. Ketchup Packet






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






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






4. What is hunger?






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






6. The basic caloric need for Women = ______






7. Big Mac






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






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






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






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






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






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






14. A calorie measures for ______________.






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






16. The energy in fat is ____ kcals/g






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






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






19. Triple Whopper






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






21. Sugar = _____






22. What is a bomb calorimeter?






23. The energy in carbohydrates is ___ kcals/g






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






25. Chicken Selects Premium Breast Strips






26. The energy in protein is ____ kcals/g






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






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






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






30. Basal metabolism includes _________.






31. Most foods contain a mixture of _____.






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






33. What is dietary thermogenesis?






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






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






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






37. Calories = ________ - not nutrients.






38. A calorie measures for ______________.






39. 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: ______________________






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






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






42. Most foods are a _____.






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






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






45. Basal metabolism includes _________.






46. Large Cola






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






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






49. The energy in carbohydrates is ___ kcals/g






50. Steak = ______