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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. Most foods are a _____.






2. What is a bomb calorimeter?






3. Chicken Selects Premium Breast Strips






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






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






6. Energy makes most ______ reaction happen.






7. A (metric) calorie is the amount of energy (heat) required to raise 1 kilogram of ____ 1 degree centigrade.






8. Basal metabolism includes _________.






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






10. We need energy to ______: digest your food






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






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






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






14. Chicken McNuggets






15. Chicken Caesar Salad






16. The greatest energy use is _____.






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






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






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






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






21. Double Quarter Pounder w/cheese






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






23. Calories = ________ - not nutrients.






24. What is a bomb calorimeter?






25. Chicken Selects Premium Breast Strips






26. Measureing _____ in people is much more expensive.






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






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






29. Big Mac






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






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






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






33. Where's the energy in foods?






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






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






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






37. Measureing _____ in people is much more expensive.






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






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






40. The basic caloric need for Women = ______






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






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






43. Oil = _____






44. 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: ______________________






45. Most foods contain a mixture of _____.






46. The energy in protein is ____ kcals/g






47. Oil = _____






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






49. Steak = ______






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