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






2. Chicken Selects Premium Breast Strips






3. Double Stack






4. Chicken Selects Premium Breast Strips






5. 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: ______________________






6. What is appetite?






7. We need energy to ______: digest your food






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






9. Double Stack






10. A calorie measures for ______________.






11. Basal metabolism includes _________.






12. Triple Whopper






13. The energy in alcohol is ____ kcals/g






14. Large French Fries






15. Calories = ________ - not nutrients.






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






17. Large Cola






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






19. We call mixture by a ____ or handle in order to make teaching about nutrition easier.






20. The energy in fat is ____ kcals/g






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






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






23. Oil = _____






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






25. Large French Fries






26. Oil = _____






27. Calories = ________ - not nutrients.






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






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






30. Total caloric need =______________________.






31. A calorie measures for ______________.






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






33. Basal metabolism (____-_____%)






34. The basic caloric need for Women = ______






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






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






37. Energy makes most ______ reaction happen.






38. The basic caloric need for Men =______






39. We call mixture by a ____ or handle in order to make teaching about nutrition easier.






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






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






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






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






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






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






46. What is a bomb calorimeter?






47. Big Mac






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






49. Where's the energy in foods?






50. Chicken McNuggets