Community Survey

Dietary Habits Survey

The UCLA Longevity Center and the UCLA Teaching Kitchen are collaborating on a project to produce webinars to help adults over 50 years learn about preparing convenient, quick, healthy meals. The goal of the webinars will be to provide practical information on reducing the risk of chronic age-related disease (e.g. diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, heart disease) associated with cognitive decline. The survey takes about 12 minutes to complete. We are asking you to please complete this anonymous survey to help us better understand the needs and desires of people in the Los Angeles community.

Definitions

We use the word “healthy” in this survey.

A healthy diet is one that is full of varied and diverse nutrients for the body. These include:

Poultry or fish, lean red meats (bison, lean meat cuts like sirloin).
Whole grains (e.g. “good” carbohydrates such as wheat or whole grain bread).
Fresh vegetables or plain frozen vegetables (e.g. without sauces), fresh fruit.
Other healthy proteins: Tofu, beans, nuts, eggs and (low fat) milk and dairy products.

“Unhealthy” foods are:

Highly processed foods, canned foods, frozen meals and pre-prepared foods. Unhealthy foods are high in preservatives, sugar, unhealthy fat, and salt. Examples include:

Frozen dinners: such as Marie Callender’s, Lean Cuisine; frozen pizza.
Cold cuts, cakes, donuts, chips, crackers, boxed cereal (including corn flakes), boxed instant food like mac-n-cheese and Rice-a-Roni; canned soups, canned fruits in syrup, canned veggies that are NOT advertised as low sodium; white bread, bagels.
Unhealthy fats: ribs, ribeye, pork roast, bacon, sausage, chorizo, whole milk, fried food, margarine, lard, Crisco oil