Joon,+Phivos,+Katalina

** Big Picture Question: **
Do Americans or Koreans eat more healthily? ** Specific Question: ** How do certain students define "healthy" in Korean and American society?

** Hypothesis: **
We think that Americans are less healthy than Koreans although most Americans think they are more healthy. We think this because of the varied options each country has. The Korean culture was based more so on vegetable and other health foods then America. Also America has a multicultural society, that values competition and so restaurants generally try to make their food taste good rather then focusing on health to attract costumers.

** Procedures: **
1. create specific survey questions 2.reach a teacher that 50 students of one grade level meet with and have them hand out survey 3. give survey over time period of one day 4. analyze survey with graphs and charts and video

**Method (Survey):**
[|Our Survey Monkey] age:  <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">gender:  <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">how many servings of fruit/vegtables do you eat a day:  <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">how many servings of carbohydrates (breads, rice, noodles) do you eat a day:  <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">how many servings of protein (meat) do you eat a day:  <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">how many sweets or sugars do you eat a day:  <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Name 3 drinks you drink regularly (Coke, water, tea): <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Do you consider yourself healthy compared to the mainstream culture in your region? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Are you an international student?

===<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Potential Flaws and Obstacles:** === <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Students may not be entirely truthful when it comes to a survey. Nobody likes to admit that they are unhealthy.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; vertical-align: baseline;">Katalina:
===<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Back to School Nutrition] === ===<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Kid's Health] ===

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; vertical-align: baseline;">Joon:
===<span class="s1" style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Health and Health Care for Korean-American Elders] === ===<span class="s1" style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; vertical-align: baseline;">[|USA Could Learn from Korean Schools] === ===<span class="s2" style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; vertical-align: baseline;">The USA today article talks about South Korean school systems that impact Korean culture. This article actually praises the school system primarily on results of tests and other academic circles. Yet the way students intake their daily nutrients are worse then in America because Korean students have less time. Since school is so important and dropping out is considered as a huge disaster. This mindset may make productivity higher and a higher amount of college graduates, but when it comes to health, Korean students do not get home made dinners or full lunches. For example this rush to educate oneself has created a blind race and the students don’t have enough time to eat full meals and they just quickly go to the convenient store after hagwon and pig out there. Further evidence can be found by the official reports of the demographics of Korea. For Koreans just generally have ranged eating habits. Adults for example have a tendency to drink a lot of alcohol and children find solace in foods filled with fat, salt, sugar, etc. According to the Standford study, Koreans generally have a more varied, healthy diet and that is true except when it comes to students. What they haven’t noted is that because of the Confucius influence, receiving education is more important than physical health which means overall that parents care more about paying for school related activities rather than spending time making home meals, feeding them fruits, etc. Conclusively, American students seem to have a larger varieties of unhealthy students and more obesity though. ===

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 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">[|Final Research Paper:] **