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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. What is a bomb calorimeter?






2. Oil = _____






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






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






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






6. Basal metabolism includes _________.






7. Double Quarter Pounder w/cheese






8. Chicken Selects Premium Breast Strips






9. The energy in alcohol is ____ kcals/g






10. Where's the energy in foods?






11. 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: ______________________






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






13. The greatest energy use is _____.






14. The basic caloric need for Women = ______






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






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






17. A calorie measures for ______________.






18. The basic caloric need for Men =______






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






20. The energy in carbohydrates is ___ kcals/g






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






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






23. What is dietary thermogenesis?






24. What is appetite?






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






26. Measureing _____ in people is much more expensive.






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






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






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






30. The basic caloric need for Women = ______






31. We need energy to maintain _______.






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






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






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






35. We need energy to ______: digest your food






36. Ketchup Packet






37. 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: ______________________






38. Sugar = _____






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






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






41. Chicken Caesar Salad






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






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






44. The energy in fat is ____ kcals/g






45. Most foods are a _____.






46. What is dietary thermogenesis?






47. Steak = ______






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






49. Large Cola






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