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What Nutrition Means to You!By Alia Holyfield
MethodOver a 5-day period I offered a survey through Survey Monkey using email to friends,
family and coworkers as well as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn. 70 responses were
collected in total. They Survey looks at common misconceptions around nutrition,
where people go to get their nutrition information, and physical activity. Multiple
choice questions and Likert scale were used as well. For
demographics the age of
participants was
collected.
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Age Range of Participants
n-70
Results
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I dont pay too much attention to my dietwhen it comes to disease prevention,
genetics really play the biggest role inoverall health and how long I will live, so
what is the point?
StronglyDisagree
Disagree NeitherDisagreeor Agree
Agree StronglyAgree
26.1% 55.1% 11.6% 4.3% 2.9%
Results
Common Perceptions of
Nutrition and Health
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When food shopping, if I see a label thatstates a certain food has been found to be
beneficial based off a single study I am morelikely to purchase that product over a
comparable product without the study.
StronglyDisagree
DisagreeNeither
Disagreeor Agree
AgreeStronglyAgree
17.1% 25.7% 31.4% 22.9% 2.9%
Eating healthy is more expensive thaneating unhealthy.
StronglyDisagree
DisagreeNeither
Disagree
or Agree
AgreeStronglyAgree
11.4% 10.0% 11.4% 47.1% 20.0%
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Eating healthy or making more nutritioushealth choices requires me to give up my
favorite foods for unappealing or weirdfood.
StronglyDisagree
DisagreeNeither
Disagreeor Agree
AgreeStronglyAgree
22.9% 47.1% 15.7% 12.9% 1.4%
Carbohydrates are bad. They are one of thelargest reasons obesity is such an epidemic
here in the United States.
StronglyDisagree
DisagreeNeither
Disagreeor Agree
AgreeStronglyAgree
11.4% 41.4% 21.4% 21.4% 4.3%
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Supplements and enriched/fortified foods*are just as good as foods that contain
vitamins and minerals naturally. As long as Iam getting them from somewhere.
(*Enriched/fortified food- Foods that have
nutrients added back in after the refiningprocess.
Supplements- Vitamin or mineral tablets.)
StronglyDisagree
DisagreeNeither
Disagreeor Agree
AgreeStronglyAgree
21.4% 48.6% 18.6% 10.0% 1.4%
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I trust what manufactures put on foodpackaging and labels because the USDA(United States Department of Agriculture)
regulates that information.
StronglyDisagree Disagree
Neither
Disagreeor Agree
Agree StronglyAgree
27.1% 28.6% 15.7% 25.7% 2.9%
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Breakfast Option A
BreakfastOption B
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When looking for information about nutritionand health the FIRST place I typically go is
The internet- government sites or researchconducted through Universities and peer
reviewed journals etc.
30%
The internet- WedMD,Wikipdedia or Wikihow, blogs
etc.
41.4%
My Physician or otherHealth Professional(Nurse, Registered
Dietitian)
15.7
My trainer at the
gym0%
Friends orfamily
10%
Other2.9%
All of theabove
depending
Read the
labels on theproducts
Natural Food
Store
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I attempt to get in at least 2 hours of moderate(brisk walking of about 100 steps per minute)exercise a week.
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ConclusionOverall this survey showed that those who tool it had a decent grasp on certainpitfalls and misconceptions around Nutrition.
Most people generally disagreedwith statements about diet not having a
significant impact on disease prevention, that eating healthy meant givingup favorite foods for less appealing foods, and that whole foods withoriginal nutrients are better than fortified food or supplements.
It was interesting to find:
52% disagreed with the statement Carbohydrates are bad. They are one ofthe largest reasons obesity is such an epidemic here in the United States.But
the other half was almost evenly split between (21.4%) not knowing andagreeing (25.7%). This was surprising to me. I think that I may havereceived different results (more agreement) had I simply put the statementCarbs are bad and not linked them to obesity specifically.
Over half of those surveyed (67.1%) agreed that eating healthy is more
expensive than eating unhealthy.
57.1% were eitherunsure or agreed that they would purchase a foodproduct that has been found to be beneficial based off a single study over acomparable product without the study. This fell in line with what Iexpected and something actually I have done myself.
55.7%disagreed stating that they trust what manufacturers put on
packaging and labels and the USDAs regulations of this. I was slightly
surprised at how strongly people disagreed because before going through aNutrition Course I was more trusting of food labels.
Nutrient Density:
57 % of those survey recognized that Breakfast option A and B had the
SAME amount of calories the rest (34.%)selected Breakfast A as higher
is calories. When choosing to do this question I was sure that more
people were going to pick Breakfast A as having more calories. I wassurprised that most people recognized that they had the same.
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ConclusionI believe just by providing option 3 of Same amount of calories mayhave partly given the answer.
Sources for Health and Nutrition information:
A surprisingly low amount of people stated that they got their Nutrition
or Health information from Health Professionals (15.7%). I was expecting
higher since I stated HEALTH and Nutrition information.
This survey showed the preferred method of finding Health and Nutritioninformation is through internet based resources (71%).
o With 41.4% preferring websites like WebMD, Blogs and Wikipedia
government, university and peer-reviewed journals. I found this
concerning, especially if almost a third of the respondents were mostlikely in the health care field.
0% of people get their health information from the gym trainer.
Physical Activity:
87.1% stated that they were had some chance of getting the
recommended physical activity per week.
46% stated that they were somewhat likely to get the recommended
level of physical activity per week.
Limitations:
I was limited on the amount of demographic questions I was able to ask.There is a 10 question limit in Survey Monkeys free version and I focusedon the statements on certain nutrition assumptions. However, it is a goodsample size (n=70) and most of the people surveyed consisted of adults
between 18 and 40 years of age. I also blasted the survey out through emailto family, friends, coworkers, on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter. OnTwitter I focused on nursing group accounts and I did that 2 days afterFacebook, LinkedIn and emailing the survey out. I received a good 20
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ConclusionFrom Twitter there is a very good possibility that of those 20 people many werenurses. I do not believe that that skewed the results because I used Facebook
first and got about 50 responses and the overall percentages did not change.
All in all this was a very basic survey that had many limitations that kept it farfrom being scientifically sound but it definitely gave me a good view of whatmy friends, coworkers and family think when it comes to nutrition assumptionsand where they get their information.