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Eating is Beyond a Matter of Nutrition | Angela Lu | TEDxYouth@IBSH


afternoon it’s an honor to be here

thanks a lot ah ok I heard that some of

you applied to cornell ok if I were to

ask each of you to give me a piece of

nutrition advice about how to be party

to you healthfully what would you tell

me all right you might tell me one of

these things some people might tell me

more fruits and vegetables whole grains

and water that’s usually what to tell

people but some there is might start

telling me all yet any more fiber

fineness very specifically a less

saturated fat trans gothic is really

close up through our arteries maybe

something less person eating whatever

but today’s talk is really not about

nutrition and if I ask you a cool new to

you like that raise your hands it’s a

little game this Ranger and if you knew

that you had to eat some fruits

vegetables whole water see all you guys

know that keep your hands raised who

actually eats like that fifty percent of

the time at least seventy-five percent

of the time all of the time in a way I

think I do eighty percent of time but I

do need my crap consciously trying to do

that today that’s knowing so in research

there really is a clear of disconnect

between what we know what to eat how do

you healthy and what we actually do to

eat healthy and the reason might be that

you know some people just didn’t know

to eat more fruits and vegetables in

order to be healthy or less sad and

sugar right but sometimes it might be a

lack of skills not knowing how to cook

my vegetables properly in order for it

to taste good or sometimes people laugh

the confidence to choose the correct

food dining out whatever the reasons are

this researcher has a different idea dr.

Brian Wansink is a researcher from

Cornell and he had this book out there

and I called my voice leading he has a

really interesting research on the

bottomless bowl where the bowl sitting

in front of the person taking the test

in this study continuously keeps to be

filled endlessly and when they learn

from the study with that people kept

eating as much food as it was provided

so you can see what the huge implication

this has on the number of calories

grading and his idea in mindless eating

is that in order for us to eat fully

mindfully is nearly impossible because

we can’t make each and every single

eating decision on a daily basis three

times at least a day that would be

really tired so you know why because of

all these different triggers surrounding

us while we take while we go through our

day so in terms of for example in terms

of portion size that just means like

when I just told you with that funny the

more I give you the more you’re going to

eat in terms of any partner that means

if we’re eating together I took a bite

you’re likely to take a bite with me and

if I eat fast you’re likely to eat fast

with me and the rest of my slides that

you’re going to see throughout this

presentation I will give you mostly

example

from my work at the John Tom foundation

and especially with myself reduction

project that I was involved with I will

give you some examples about food

placement marketing advertisement how

price of whose influence where we eat

the convenience and location of foods

and food policies and here’s one that

okay this is the most research II slide

you’re gonna see so let’s it take take a

little bit of time this study involves

the cafeteria so imagine yourself going

into the cafe went through lines in one

blind one what like one is the healthy

one in the healthy life you see fruit

yogurt and granola first but if you are

allocated to the unhealthy line your

other seen cheesy eggs potatoes bacon

first and these unhealthy foods later so

what they found in his study with that

those people placed in the healthy line

they were a higher percentage of them

jokes the healthy food so this is about

food place but for those people who I

through the unhealthy line they chose

the bad news first so you can sort of

imagine how this could have implications

unlike your school cafeteria maybe here

what do you see can you see a bad word

sort of when I saw this ad I was really

pissed off I was so pissed off that I

called coca-cola oh and I said lady you

guys are selling that and i think it was

sovereign fun and do do you know if

that’s if you’re going to be selling

that for the rest from this day on or is

that just going to be a holiday special

thing because i saw this when people

were outside by I’m you know with the

large number of packaged junk foods

anyway she said I said well this has

really bad implications for public

health because you know coke is not

healthy for your body she say so how’s

coked-out healthy for you dad really

Art’s me but she actually said that I

said well you know me like the smell

coloring as sort of a carcinogen and you

know there’s a lot of sugar in that but

my point with that instead of instead of

the regular 330 milk cans we see they

started making it in 500 mil containers

so with the implication for that every

time I open this can of soda one purple

a person probably has to drink it in and

sitting right I’ll like the plastic

bottle so that means more calories

consumed you’re like I’ll add some like

70 calories more but then to calories a

dub on the daily basis here I like to

talk about policy video national policy

this is a photo taken at one of our

press conferences is the foundation

talking about sodium reduction here you

see different brands of corn chowder and

these numbers indicate the number of

milligrams of sodium per serving of soup

so you see 250 all the way into society

so if Taiwan want to implement a food

policy indicating the maximum level of

sodium that we could have in each of our

food groups that say for the soups maybe

if it’s setting up 400 so that that

means we can lower our sodium in our

daily diets sorry what do you see here

it’s a bunch of Chinese I tell her that

you don’t really retains I didn’t when I

first came back to Taiwan even but this

was a menu I took

restaurants of all these different

dishes fish names are confused downtown

grill time you know some eggs and

vegetables meat blah blah blah my point

is of the 68 68 dishes you see here only

13 were a vegetable based so that’s

about twenty percent what is this taught

telling us maybe you are Chinese culture

I don’t know maybe I’m certainly

American culture we’re very inclined to

use more meats and vegetables by the

dietitians promote eating more fruits

vegetables whole grains and water so

this is just telling us that our food

environment surrounding us really makes

it more difficult for us to choose the

vegetables they’re hiding in there so

what’s a better way of doing this this

is actually one thing I did with one of

the restaurants we were working with

through my salt reduction project what I

did was put all the vegetable base

dishes together and you put up up front

they’ll think with that cafeteria line

study if you put it up front people are

likely to see it first and they’re

likely to choose effort so that’s how we

manipulate the environment if this is

another example from a hot pot

restaurant Tony Navy ship so for option

one your meat plate it’s the same your

vegetable plate is the same it’s the

regular original version but with

version be with your meat plate you

actually get sixty sixty percent more

meat but your vegetables is cut down so

we’re meatless veggies and they call it

as smart that is the off to all right

with this one

actually took this walking down the

street you know with Family Mart it’s an

onion dis special but it’s telling you

is that if you pick if you buy an entree

for ten dollars and worried you get to

the web you get junk food ok one of

these sugar beverages or if I’m putting

in two thousand two thousand and one

teeny tiny dollars yeah you get a coffee

a suit and really phytochemicals build

fresh apple that’s great for thirty

dollars morning dear one another more

for the chemicals in your dry foods in

this colorful salad so what’s wrong with

this so for dietitians it’s annoying to

you because it’s making the food

environment less healthy and it actually

makes eating healthy more expensive I

guess what about eight months later I

found it online for this it’s about the

same idea you know you buy an entree if

you tip pay ten dollars more you

actually get one serving of vegetables

about 65 frames whoo that was my idea no

I didn’t anyone tell him to do that it

was my kind of idea that i’d love to see

but later we had a meeting with family

mars heard that it actually sell well so

that’s too bad and it’s sort of a cost

and demand idea if more people were

wanted to eat healthy and Ashley

supported this idea and got as excited

as me about it but I’m shop in the

comedian stores so I defy this you know

probably they would want to continue

this morning what about this now walking

down the street to give these um lunch

menus handed to you and here it really

interested me because here it says on a

bowl of white rice or multigrain rice it

guess we’ll head for the same amount of

money if you keep snug places where they

make you pay more for the multi

brown rice yeah this one time the

self-serve on different enemies so this

was really good but one time when i went

there and asked for the multigrain rice

they ran out with sad story telling me

the food service industry would probably

tell you that we don’t do the brown rice

it’s more expensive and also people

don’t like to give you but my experience

told me that people eat them and people

you think that people don’t eat them is

probably because you sell at a higher

price another example for my work in

this little eatery there’s a self-serve

area for all the green onions and

peppers and vinegars and all the condo

fees located in one central place

instead of on every table prize you

probably know what I’m going to talk

about so for some people they’re

probably too lazy to walk the distance I

don’t know two tables down you’re like

oh I’m in a hurry i’m not going to go

get the economist where has for some

people without seeing these triggers on

their table they’ve i didn’t think about

getting using the comments so you can

see that has implications for us

reducing our sodium levels in our diets

and sympathy here ok this was a picture

taken by a my colleague and it was

during time when i was working on this

all reduction project here it reads when

don’t you broth is a high sodium food

for your health sake we will not be

providing it anymore from now on I was

added my colleague was happy about it

she’s a bad titian too but then I’m not

sure if the students were held up happy

about it and just curious as to who won

in the end you know like if you if they

put it back because people were

revolting or something

oh this one you can see that it’s from

the subway what does that mean the

national trend change restaurant and if

they did one thing like this it could

affect the diets of many many people

what they did was that in order to do

they said they would increase sodium in

our sandwiches so they’re not going to

provide a faulty olives in people with

anyone young sure they’re saving money

to do this you can still ask for it I

just don’t automatically put in there

but then you know for self shy people

they probably weird asking for people

after asking for things or you know for

a lot of people you probably didn’t even

realize that it’s gone from their

sandwich really cool all right this is

one of my last slide and again from salt

reduction project and it’s about one of

the marketing you know or their own

management strategy for my vegetarian

shelving I wanted less salt we went to

these restaurants three during the

project so we were really focused on

this one of my vegetarian chow mein less

salt and my colleague she wanted her

phone blender flavored and in so I was

such a huge surprise to as I actually

went to the back of the restaurant asked

them if I could have my receipt back

because I wanted to take this picture

showing join me but the point is if they

have this built into their posts in a

point-of-sale system at the time of

ordering the only case these are the

little buttons so that tells us said the

food is industry food service industry

they’re totally ready to take our to

take their customers customize the

requests only if you knew that you

wanted to reduce some of these sodium

content or if you wanted more vegetables

or however way you like your kneels to

be healthier so let’s have to the

original question how do you healthy

keep in mind their fruits vegetables

whole grains and water as simple as that

I don’t count calories I don’t

sodium content all right but then

hopefully from my presentation you know

from point from this point on you need

to be a little bit mindful of your food

environments because there’s so many

triggers that sort of attack your subconscious somehow thank you

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