6: Nutrition Video
Transcript:
Chapter 6 Video
INTERVIEWER 1: Everybody knows that the key to eating healthy is making good choices. And you can’t make good choices if you aren’t informed.
INTERVIEWER 2: So, we went out to see just how well informed our fellow students are about what they eat.
INTERVIEWER 1: What would you consider a healthy diet?
RESPONDENT: You know, eating a lot of fruits and vegetables. Drinking milk. Not so much with the chips and cookies. Water instead of soda. That kind of thing.
INTERVIEWER 1: So, does that describe what you eat pretty much?
RESPONSE: You’re kidding, right?
INTERVIEWER 2: They say that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. What do you usually have for breakfast?
RESPONSE: The usual. Cereal. Frozen waffles. Whatever I can find that’s fast.
INTERVIEWER 2: And do you look at the ingredients of the things you eat?
RESPONSE (Shakes head)
INTERVIEWER 2 (Hands over a box of toaster pastries): Here. Can you read the ingredients out loud for us?
RESPONSE: Enriched flour, sugar, corn syrup, dextrose, high fructose corn syrup, bleached wheat flour. Contains two percent or less of molasses, salt, caramel color, wheat starch, leavening, cinnamon, gelatin, natural and artificial flavors, soy lecithin, niacinamide, yellow 5 lake, and some other stuff I can’t pronounce.
INTERVIEWER 2: But they taste good.
RESPONSE: Well yeah.
INTERVIEWER 2: Could be all the dextrose.
RESPONSE: What’s dextrose?
INTERVIEWER 2: It’s a fancy name for sugar. So is high fructose corn syrup.
RESPONSE: So these things have three different kinds of sugar?
INTERVIEWER 2: It’s got four actually. Most important meal of the day.
Respondents looking at food packages.
INTERVIEWER 1: Do you even know what they put in those?
RESPONSE: No.
INTERVIEWER 1: Do you want to know?
RESPONSE: Not really.
RESPONSE: What the heck is monosodium glutamate?
RESPONSE: Why do they put gelatin in peanuts?
RESPONSE: Phosphoric acid? Wait. Isn’t that the same kind of stuff that eats through metal?
INTERVIEWER 2 (handing RESPONDENT a banana): Can you read me the ingredients on the back of this?
RESPONSE: You’re kidding right? This is a banana.
INTERVIEWER 2: Just read it please.
RESPONDENT: Contains one banana.
INTERVIEWER 1: Name the five food groups that make up your diet.
RESPONSE: Like my diet? Because I pretty much only eat tacos and ice cream.
INTERVIEWER 2: Name the five food groups that make up your diet.
RESPONSE 1: All right. So there’s meat and bread and fruits and veggies.
RESPONSE 2: And dairy, right?
RESPONSE 1: Right and dairy.
INTERVIEWER: So, then where does chocolate go?
RESPONSE 1: I didn’t think about chocolate.
RESPONSE 2: If it’s milk chocolate, it goes in dairy.
INTERVIEWER 1: About how many servings of vegetables are you supposed to eat each day?
RESPONSE: Three-ish? Four-ish?
INTERVIEWER 1: And do you eat that many?
RESPONSE: Do french fries count as a vegetable?
INTERVIEWER 2: Have you ever seen this before?
RESPONSE: Yeah. I think so. In the cafeteria maybe.
INTERVIEWER 2 (voice-over): This is MyPlate. It’s the government’s recommendation for what you should eat. The idea is to eat a balanced diet with all of those things.
RESPONSE (voice-over): Hold up. So, if I was to eat a pizza with ham, green peppers, and pineapple on it, I would pretty much have this whole thing covered?
INTERVIEWER 2 (voice-over): Proof, once again, that pizza might just be the perfect food.
INTERVIEWER 1: The average person should take in about two thousand calories a day.
RESPONSE: You know, I think I knew that.
INTERVIEWER 1: But do you know how many calories are in a large popcorn you get at the movies?
RESPONSE: Uh, let me guess. About two thousand?
INTERVIEWER 1: You might think twice about adding extra butter.
INTERVIEWER 2: Americans sort of have a reputation for being unhealthy eaters. Why do you think that is?
RESPONSE: Too much fast food?
RESPONSE: Not enough exercise?
RESPONSE: We don’t have the time to cook fresh stuff?
RESPONSE: Giant buckets of popcorn?
INTERVIEWER 1 (voice-over): Why do you think we struggle to eat right?
INTERVIEWER 2 (voice-over): And, what could you do to start eating better?