1. Health and Nutrition at Worthing High School
Gabrielle Bernard, Kanneiceya Godine, Ashley Irby & Robert Owens
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How did we get here?
At the beginning, we learned about matrices and vectors, linear programming, matlab and health and nutrition.
We spent the last three months conducting surveys & developing a linear program to determine nutritious value of food choices.
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3. How did we get here? (cont.)
The project required a lot of background reading on health and nutrition.
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4. Relevance of Nutrition
Obesity is the #2 leading cause of death in the USA
Interesting Stat about AA
Diabetes Type II is the fastest growing disease among youth
Food options at school are a factor in youth nutrition problems (lookup)
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Topics Covered
Research Methodology
Mathematics
Linear Programming
Matrix and Vector Arithmetic
Statistical Methods
Nutrition
Healthy diets
BMI
Macronutrients
Worthing Health Attitudes
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Background
What is Health?
Health refers to the absence of illness, the ability to cope with everyday activities, physical fitness, and high quality of life.
What is Nutrition?
Nutrition is a science which studies the relationship between diet and states of health and disease.
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7. Health and Nutrition Impacts
NUTRITION FOR HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT
Better nutrition means stronger immune systems, less illness and better health.
Healthy children learn better.
Healthy people are stronger, are more productive and more able to create opportunities.
Better nutrition is a prime entry point to ending poverty and a milestone to achieving better quality of life.
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BMI - Body mass index
A measure of the weight of a person scaled according to height.
It is used as a simple means of classifying sedentary individuals according to their body fat content.
Being overweight means that you have a body mass index that is above the 95th percentile for your age.
A body mass index:
over 30 is considered obese.
between 25 and 29.9 is considered overweight.
between 18.5 and 24.9 is considered a healthy BMI.
under 18.5 is consider underweight.
Risk of Inaccuracy
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9. What is a health promoting school?
Constantly strengthens its capacity as a healthy setting for living, learning and working.
Engages health and education officials, teachers, teachers' unions, students, parents, health providers and community leaders in efforts to make the school a healthy place.
Strives to provide a healthy environment, school health education, and school health services along with school/community projects and outreach, health promotion programs for everyone.
Influences health-related behaviors: knowledge, beliefs, skills, attitudes, values, support.
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Problem
How informed are students on healthy eating?
How nutritious is the food served at WHS?
How healthy is the student body?
What can you eat at WHS and still have a balanced and nutritious meal?
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Methods
We used a survey to determine how informed students are about health and nutrition and their BMI.
Aramark provided the nutritional information about their foods.
We used linprog in matlab to determine optimal healthy and nutritious food choices.
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Methods (cont.)
Extensive background reading was done to determine what research has been done before in this field.
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Results
People feel food appearance is important
People feel food at WHS needs to be Healthier
Results
Insert Nithin’s Graph
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Results (cont.)
Most people at WHS do not know at least one characteristic of healthy foods
Emphasizes fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and fat-free or low-fat milk and milk products;
Includes lean meats, poultry, fish, beans, eggs, and nuts; and
Is low in saturated fats, trans fats, cholesterol, salt (sodium), and added sugars.
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Results (cont.)
Many students eat pizza, candy bars and chips for lunch
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Discussion
Improvements in food taste may possibly lead to healthier eating habits by students at WHS.
In the survey, the level of honesty in the answers was unknown
Lack of people being surveyed may have skewed the results
Nutritional information for foods at lunch is dependent upon information provided by Aramark
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Discussion (cont.)
Improvements in food taste may possibly lead to healthier eating habits by students at WHS.
The linear program shows that when eating snacks, very few additional choices are available that will meet the nutrition requirements.
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Conclusion
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Acknowledgements
Our parents
Ms. Howard
Ms. Webber
Mr. Runnels
Dr. Cox
Rice Mentors
Our Principal, Mr. Robert M. Dean
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Bibliography
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