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1 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 Changing BehaviorOdds and EndsFood and Health Personal FinanceSmall Steps Small Steps to Health and Wealth™ Game
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2 The Answer is: Term given to the food industry trend of serving large portion sizes and “meal deals.”
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3 The Question is: What is “super-sizing?”
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4 The Answer is: Commonly used ratio between a person’s height and weight that is used to classify them as healthy, overweight, or obese.
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5 The Question is: What is body mass index (BMI)?
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6 The Answer is: Commonly cited indicator that a person is obese.
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7 The Question is: What is having a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or higher?
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8 The Answer is: The difference between the energy that people consume from food and the energy that they burn from physical activity.
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9 The Question is: What is energy balance?
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10 The Answer is: Example of an automated health improvement habit.
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11 The Question is: What are routine health screenings, “points” programs (e.g., Weight Watchers™), and programmed exercise routines (e.g., Curves™)?
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12 The Answer is: Term given for the measure of household wealth that is calculated by subtracting debts from assets.
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13 The Question is: What is net worth (a.k.a., a balance sheet)?
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14 The Answer is: Type of tax-deferred employer retirement savings account.
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15 The Question is: What are 401(k), 403(b), and 457 plans?
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16 The Answer is: Generally recommended amount of savings that should be set aside for household emergencies.
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17 The Question is: What is three to six month’s expenses?
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18 The Answer is: A disadvantage of making minimum payments on a credit card.
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19 The Question is: What are high interest costs and a long repayment period?
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20 The Answer is: Example of an automated financial improvement strategy.
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21 The Question is: What are payroll deductions for retirement savings plans, automatic deposits for stock and mutual funds, and checking to savings account transfers?
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22 The Answer is: Example of a small step to improve health.
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23 The Question is: What are: using less butter or salad dressing, cutting portion sizes, sharing a restaurant entrée’, baking food instead of frying, and 10 minute units of exercise?
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24 The Answer is: Example of a small step to increase wealth.
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25 The Question is: What are: saving loose pocket change, saving $1 a day, adding $1 a day to credit card payments, and reduced discretionary spending?
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26 The Answer is: The process of earning interest on interest on small dollar amounts of savings to gradually increase wealth over time.
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27 The Question is: What is compound interest or compounding?
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28 The Answer is: Federal government agency that created the health promotion Web site www.smallstep.gov.
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29 The Question is: What is the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services?
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30 The Answer is: The process of making regular investment deposits at regular time intervals (e.g., $50 a month).
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31 The Question is: What is dollar-cost averaging?
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32 The Answer is: Description of a person’s intended health or personal finance behavior change with a dollar amount and/or deadline date.
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33 The Question is: What is a goal?
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34 The Answer is: A reason for tracking current eating and spending habits.
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35 The Question is: What are: to understand current habits, to acknowledge current problems, and to identify potential behavior changes ?
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36 The Answer is: Making just a small behavior change to improve health or wealth is a better alternative than doing this.
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37 The Question is: What is doing nothing?
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38 The Answer is: Example of a positive environmental influence to improve health.
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39 The Question is: What are healthy cafeteria choices, walking “buddies,” refrigerator and microwave at work, buying healthy snacks instead of “junk food,” employer fitness program, etc.?
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40 The Answer is: Stage of behavior change where people are “clueless” and unaware that a change needs to be made.
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41 The Question is: What is pre-contemplation?
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42 The Answer is: Device used to measure the amount of steps that a person walks per day.
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43 The Question is: What is a pedometer?
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44 The Answer is: Number of steps that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recommends that people walk per day.
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45 The Question is: What is 10,000 steps (about 5 miles)?
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46 The Answer is: Example of “small” (on a daily basis) expenses that add up over a month and could be decreased to save money and/or reduce debt.
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47 The Question is: What are fast food, lottery tickets, snacks, lattes, etc.?
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48 The Answer is: Number of extra calories per day that will result in a 10 pound weight gain in a year.
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49 The Question is: What is 100 calories per day?
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50 The Answer is: An example that illustrates the “Meet Yourself Halfway” behavior change strategy.
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51 The Question is: What are: eating 1 cookie instead of 2, buying 3 lottery tickets instead of 6, taking half of a restaurant meal home (i.e., doing half of current practices)?
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