By the Anthropologists

What’s the Story with the American Obesity

Epidemic

2What’s the Story: By the Anthropologists

Anthropologists

• In the real world, anthropologists study _________.• In this activity, as anthropologists, we are interested

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3What’s the Story: By the Anthropologists

• According to _[quote your source here]__ America’s obesity epidemic is ___[summarize your group’s feelings about the problem here]___.

• If we don’t do something about the problem, we will __[make a prediction here about what will happen]__.

Evidence

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4What’s the Story: By the Anthropologists

• We have investigated several resources. We believe the epidemic may be caused by:– [list your group’s conclusions here]– – –

Possible Causes

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5What’s the Story: By the Anthropologists

• To study the environments of our communities, we have selected the __[write the name of your survey here]__ survey.

• In this survey, we __[here, describe what the study will look at or measure]___

Our Survey

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6What’s the Story: By the Anthropologists

• _____[predict how your classmates will answer the surveys here]_____

• For example:– Our communities have too many fast food

restaurants and not enough sidewalks for walking.– Our school environment does not promote a

healthy lifestyle for students.– Students watch commercials with more unhealthy

messages than healthy messages

Our Hypotheses

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7What’s the Story: By the Anthropologists

Effects of Restaurants and Eateries in our Community on our Behavior

Positive NegativeNeutral

Survey 1 - Community Environment (1 of 3)(double click the graph to change it to match your survey results)

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8What’s the Story: By the Anthropologists

Effects of Parks and Recreation in our Community on our Behavior

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Survey 1 - Community Environment (2 of 3)(double click the graph to change it to match your survey results)

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9What’s the Story: By the Anthropologists

Effects of Transportation in our Community on our Behavior

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Survey 1 - Community Environment (3 of 3)(double click the graph to change it to match your survey results)

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10What’s the Story: By the Anthropologists

How we think our school is doing

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School wide healthy eating program

School wide physical activity program

PE required for all

Students involved with health council

Breakfast, lunch & snack programs

Total Score: Higher number is better

Survey 2 - School Environment (double click the graph to change it to match your survey results)

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11What’s the Story: By the Anthropologists

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Number of TV commercials

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Type of health message by day of week and time of day

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Survey 3 – Television Commercials (double click the graph to change it to match your survey results)

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12What’s the Story: By the Anthropologists

• Share important notes or comments that were made on the surveys here.

Important Comments

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13What’s the Story: By the Anthropologists

• [based on your research and survey, list 4-5 things you feel are causes of eating more and moving less.]

Role of our Environment on our Behavior

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14What’s the Story: By the Anthropologists

• [How does your group recommend we change the environment to promote a more healthy lifestyle. Give 4-5 specific examples.

• For example:– Present our findings to the City Council to request

more activities for youth– Make the school environment more healthy by

removing vending machines. – Reduce the number of hours in front of the TV.

Recommendations

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15What’s the Story: By the Anthropologists

• [Propose studies or research that would help your group learn more.]

Future Research–to learn more, we could

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