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What is a unit of heat used to measure the energy your body uses and the energy your body uses the energy it receives from food?
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What energy can measure how much energy is in food?
Calories are the standard unit.
What form of energy does the body use?
the form of energy the body use is food
What is food an example of what energy?
Animals get energy from the food they eat. Their body transforms chemical energy in the food into kinetic energy, thermal energy, and other chemical energy
When you eat food your body uses energy to turn the food into mechanical energy?
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When you eat food your body uses blank energy to turn the food into mechanical energy?
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A calorie is refers to?
the measure of energy the body is able to produce from food
Are calories essential to your body?
Calories are not a nutrient,they measure the amount of energy the food has. That said, they are in a way essential because no calories means no energy that food gives your body. Your body needs food for life sustainance
What determine how much energy a human receives from food?
A human gets energy from the calories of food. how much energy the food molecules have
Why callories infortant to our body?
It's a way to measure the available energy in the food you eat. All excess food (as measured in calories) is converted into fat.
What represents an indirect measure of the amount of energy released from food?
The amount of oxygen that's consumed when you burn your food is an indirect measure of the amount of energy that's released from the food. Bomb calorimeters are sometimes used to measure the energy content in food.
What is food used as in your body?
food gives out nutrients which inturn produces energy. food is a supplement to the body's energy
How does energy transfer from food to body?
The food is first broken down into its simplest forms. The cellular organelle know as the mitochondria receives it and breaks it down even more producing ATP. ATP is the main energy source for the cell.
What can make your body change into to food into energy?
Food changes into energy when the carbs aare absorbed by the body. for this to happen the body has to digest the food.
How do you get the energy your body needs?
You get the energy you need by eating food. Your body makes energy with the nutritions in the food. It can make kinetic energy or potential energy.
What is a measure of energy that's produced by food called?
Food energy is usually measured in calories.
What the definition of calorie?
the measure of energy from food
What is the measure of the energy value of food?
calories
