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






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






3. Double Stack






4. 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: ______________________






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






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






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






8. Steak = ______






9. What is appetite?






10. Sugar = _____






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






12. Energy makes most ______ reaction happen.






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






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






15. Chicken Caesar Salad






16. Total caloric need =______________________.






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






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






19. The energy in carbohydrates is ___ kcals/g






20. What is appetite?






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






22. Chicken McNuggets






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






24. What is hunger?






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






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






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






28. Big Mac






29. Ketchup Packet






30. The greatest energy use is _____.






31. Chicken Caesar Salad






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






33. Oil = _____






34. Large Cola






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






36. Triple Whopper






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






38. Double Quarter Pounder w/cheese






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






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






41. The energy in protein is ____ kcals/g






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






43. Large Cola






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






45. We need energy to maintain _______.






46. Basal metabolism (____-_____%)






47. People have different ____ for hunger and satiety.






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






49. Oil = _____






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