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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. Measureing _____ in people is much more expensive.






2. What is dietary thermogenesis?






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






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






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






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






7. 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: ______________________






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






9. Chicken Caesar Salad






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






11. Measureing _____ in people is much more expensive.






12. Calories = ________ - not nutrients.






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






14. The basic caloric need for Women = ______






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






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






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






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






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






20. What is appetite?






21. Double Stack






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






23. What is a bomb calorimeter?






24. The energy in carbohydrates is ___ kcals/g






25. We need energy to ______: digest your food






26. Basal metabolism includes _________.






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






28. Steak = ______






29. Chicken Caesar Salad






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






31. Double Quarter Pounder w/cheese






32. Large Cola






33. Chicken Selects Premium Breast Strips






34. What is appetite?






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






36. Chicken McNuggets






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






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






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






40. Big Mac






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






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






43. Big Mac






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






45. Most foods contain a mixture of _____.






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






47. Calories = ________ - not nutrients.






48. Basal metabolism (____-_____%)






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






50. Total caloric need =______________________.