Survival Skills

1. Survival Skills Kathryn A. Parker, RD., LD/N Summer 2010

2. Experience • Consultant • City of Gainesville www.lifequest.cityofgainesville.org • Reedy Creek Fire Department • UF Diabetes Center of Excellence www.diabetes.ufl.edu • Alachua County School Board www.acsb.org/transportation/nufit • Healthy Communities Initiative www.alachuacounty.us/healthycommunity

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4. 2008 1994 2000 2008 1994 2000 No Data <4.5% 4.5-5.9% 6.0-7.4% 7.5-8.9% >9.0% No Data <14.0% 14.0-17.9% 18.0-21.9% 22.0-25.9% >26.0% Age-adjusted Percentage of U.S. Adults Who Were Obese or Who Had Diagnosed Diabetes Obesity (BMI ≥30 kg/m2) Diabetes CDC’s Division of Diabetes Translation. National Diabetes Surveillance System available at http://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/statistics

8. How Insulin Resistance Leads to Metabolic Syndrome

13. Gainesville Sun, Fall 2000

29. How Restaurants Influence How We Eat • A couple of studies were done in restaurants where 12 menu items we described with either a normal name like Chicken Breast or a name like Tuscan Sun-Kissed Breast of Chicken. • Or, either Chocolate Cake or Belgian Black Forest Double Chocolate Cake. • The foods were exactly the same. • After finishing their meal, they were asked about taste and texture. People who ate the generically named items said, “The taste was OK” and they were “not very likely to order again.” But when they ate the same foods that were descriptively named they said, “Gee that was good. I like the taste.” and “Yes they would order again.”

30. Grocery Stores Influence on Consumers • An experiment was done in Philadelphia where signs were put up that said, “Apples: buy 18 for the weekend” or “Snickers bars: buy 12 for your backpack.” • They weren’t on sale, but when people saw the sign, they typically bought one to two more than people who didn’t see the sign. • This is a ubiquitous phenomenon called anchoring.

31. Variety Makes People Eat More • People were given bowls of jelly beans and other colored candies. • The bowls had either four or six different colors of candies. • If the people were given four different colors, they ate about 40% less than if they were given six different colors. Both bowls had the same number of jelly beans and they all tasted exactly the same!!! Having more colors was more inviting.

32. Shapes of Glasses • Kids at a health and fitness camp were given either a tall, skinny 22-ounce glass or a short, wide, 22-ounce glass. • The kids who were given the short, wide glass estimated that they had poured less than the kids who were given the tall, skinny glass. • In reality, they poured 77% more into the short, wide glasses.

33. Adults were fooled too! • 48 Philadelphia bartenders were asked to pour a gin and tonic into either a highball glass or a short, wide tumbler. • They were supposed to pour a shot-1 ½ ounces without using a shot glass. (They’re professionals, they know pouring) • Although all the bartenders were experienced, they poured an average of 26% more alcohol into the wide tumbler than the highball glass. • So if somebody’s job in pouring the right amount and even they can’t do it, what about the rest of us?

34. Larger Portions • Movie goers in Chicago were randomly given either medium or really large buckets of popcorn. • The people who were given big buckets ate roughly 50% more than the people who were given smaller buckets. • When asked to estimate how many ounces or calories they had eaten, there was no difference between what the two groups reported.

35. Do We Notice? • No. • Philadelphia moviegoers were given medium or large buckets of stale, 14-day-old popcorn that tasted terrible. • The people that got the large buckets ate 31% morn than the people who got the medium buckets. • Both groups again thought they ate the same amount.

36. Are you getting the best nutrition for your dollar? A comparison of foods purchased for $5.00 at Publix grocery store

37. ½ gallon Nesquik Chocolate milk family size mac & cheese Total: $5.08 Box of Lucky Charms Total: $4.99 Single serve pizza 25.4 oz. Foster’s beer Total: $5.28 1 Gallon Hawaiian Punch Box of Pop Tarts Total: $5.38 Junk Foods

38. Pepsi 8 pack Ready Bake cookies Total: $6.08 Dozen Krispy Cream Doughnuts Total: $4.99 Bag of Lay’s Classic potato chips 20 oz. Pepsi Total: $5.38 Junk Foods

39. Bag of Oreo cookies 2 liter coke Total: $5.68 Publix frozen French Toast Mott’s Apple Punch juice Total: $5.78 ½ gallon Publix ice cream King size pack m&m’s Total: $5.38 Junk Foods

40. Bag of Publix salad 16 oz. frozen green beans 14 oz. bag frozen broccoli Total: $5.27 2 quarts fresh strawberries Total: $5.00 12-15 red apples 1 lb. of seedless grapes Total: $5.68 Fruits & Vegetables

41. 16 oz. fresh baby carrots 32 oz. frozen corn Total: $4.38 2 lbs. Fresh cut fruit salad 16 oz. bag of frozen peas 3 lbs. bananas 16 oz. Frozen mixed fruit Total: $5.06 Fruits and Vegetables

42. Are you getting the best nutrition for your dollar? A comparison of foods purchased for $5.00 at Publix grocery store

43. Total: $4.75 1 bag of Fritos 1 container cheese dip Total: $4.90 6 doughnuts ½ gallon chocolate milk Total: $5.05 1 pack slim jims 2 Liter coke 1 bag Onion Ring chips Total: $5.06 1 lb bag M&Ms 1 bag chocolate covered peanuts Junk foods

44. Total: $4.75 Brownies (from Publix Deli) 1 bag Cheetos Total: $5.05 1 bag Ruffles potato chips 2 Reese’s sticks 1 doughnut Junk foods

45. Total: $4.04 16 oz bag green beans (frozen) 16 oz bag okra (frozen) 16 oz bag yellow squash (frozen) 16 oz bag broccoli (frozen) Total: $5.06 12 oz bag blueberries (frozen) 12 oz bag strawberries (frozen) 10 oz box mixed vegetables (frozen) Fruits and Vegetables

46. Total: $4.83 1 head broccoli 1 lb tomatoes 1 lb carrots 1 bag celery Total: $5.01 7 apples 4 lbs bananas Total: $4.43 6 oranges 1 lb grapes Total: $4.43 16 oz bag mixed frozen veges 16 oz bag carrots 16 oz bag peas 10 oz box spinach (frozen) Fruits and Vegetables

47. RESULTS

48. RESULTS