BIOLOGICAL: What is a calorie?

What is a calorie?

• How we measure the energy in a food

• Unhealthy Food

• How much water we drink

• A sport

calorie

• the rate at which the body uses energy

• a unit of measurement for energy provided by food

• a relatively low-calorie food that provides vitamins, minerals, and other healthful substances

• a condition in which the body takes in too much of some nutrient or too many calories

• a condition in which the body takes in too few nutrients for health and growth

metabolism

• the rate at which the body uses energy

• a unit of measurement for energy provided by food

• a relatively low-calorie food that provides vitamins, minerals, and other healthful substances

• a condition in which the body takes in too much of some nutrient or too many calories

• a condition in which the body takes in too few nutrients for health and growth

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A calorie is the _____ needed to raise the temperature of a kilogram of water one degree _______

• fire, fairenheit

• vitamin,higher

• heat, Celsius

• food, lower

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A kilocalorie (kcal) is the same as:

• a gram of fat

• kilojoule

• a food calorie

• the calories found in a head of lettuce

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Calorie is a measure of

• Energy

• Weight

• Distance

• Volume

Conversion Factor 1kcal = ___ cal

• 10
• 100
• 1000
• 1/1000

Conversion Factor 1 cal = ____J

• 10

  1000

• 1

• 4.186

• 4186

Nutritionists know that a gram of protein contains ____ Calories, a gram of fat has _____ Calories, and a gram of

carbohydrate has _____ Calories.

• 4 / 9 / 4

• 9 / 4 / 9

• 5 / 8 / 6

• 5 / 8 / 6