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Calories Food Energy And Energy Balance

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1. Most foods are a _____.






2. What is dietary thermogenesis?






3. Most foods contain a mixture of _____.






4. Large French Fries






5. What is appetite?






6. Chicken Caesar Salad






7. Basal metabolism (____-_____%)






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






9. Chicken McNuggets






10. Large Cola






11. Oil = _____






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






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






14. What is hunger?






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






16. Sugar = _____






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






18. The energy in protein is ____ kcals/g






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






20. The greatest energy use is _____.






21. Oil = _____






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






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






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






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






26. A calorie measures for ______________.






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






28. Large French Fries






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






30. Big Mac






31. Double Stack






32. Where's the energy in foods?






33. We need energy to maintain _______.






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






35. Triple Whopper






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






37. What is dietary thermogenesis?






38. Measureing _____ in people is much more expensive.






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






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






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






42. The energy in fat is ____ kcals/g






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






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






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






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






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






48. The energy in alcohol is ____ kcals/g






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






50. The energy in fat is ____ kcals/g







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