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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. Big Mac






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






3. Chicken Caesar Salad






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






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






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






7. Basal metabolism (____-_____%)






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






9. 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: ______________________






10. Calories = ________ - not nutrients.






11. Most foods contain a mixture of _____.






12. The greatest energy use is _____.






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






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






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






16. A calorie measures for ______________.






17. What is appetite?






18. What is dietary thermogenesis?






19. Chicken McNuggets






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






21. Triple Whopper






22. Ketchup Packet






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






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






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






26. Oil = _____






27. Most foods contain a mixture of _____.






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






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






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






31. Where's the energy in foods?






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






33. Energy makes most ______ reaction happen.






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






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






36. Total caloric need =______________________.






37. People have different ____ for hunger and satiety.






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






39. The energy in fat is ____ kcals/g






40. People have different ____ for hunger and satiety.






41. Oil = _____






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






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






44. The basic caloric need for Men =______






45. The basic caloric need for Women = ______






46. 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: ______________________






47. The energy in protein is ____ kcals/g






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






49. What is dietary thermogenesis?






50. The energy in carbohydrates is ___ kcals/g