Blog #25: Helping 2013

Who did you interview: Andy

What day and time: 3/24 12:38p.m.

1. What ideas do you have for your senior project and why? 

• His first choice is something with engineering and his back-ups are computer engineer, piano, and something with fashion (because he might have service learning here)
• I told him he really needs to find service learning for engineering right away because it is hard, especially if he might need more hours for independent component and piano is a really good back up since he is already doing private lessons. I pointed out that it would be better for him to do engineering if he wanted that to be his future career though because he could take advantage of his senior project to see what it is like to be an engineer and possibly form connections. 

2. What do you plan to do to complete the 10 hours of service learning?

• He doesn't have service learning yet, but he is emailing engineers and trying to get someone. If it doesn't work out he is just going to do piano.
• I told him that my mom might know an engineer or a program he may intern with because I think she sent my brother to do something like that in the summer, so I would ask her and I could send him the contact information. I also know a civil engineer who went to Cal Poly so I will ask him to see if I could give Andy his contact information. 

3. What do you hope to see or expect to see when watching the class of 2012 present their two hour presentations?

• He is interested in learning about the different careers and seeing what they do.
• I told him yeah a lot of people chose future careers, but a lot of us also chose hobbies because of many different reasons. I also told him that some who chose future careers realized that they did not want that to be their job anymore.

4. What questions do they have about their senior project?

• He said he didn't have any other questions as of right now
• I gave him my phone number so he could text me if he had anymore question. I told him to try really hard to get engineering because it will be really useful if he wants that to be his future career. I also told him about what the teachers expects and how they grade and what is really important to do in senior project. 

Fourth Interview Questions

1. What is the most important piece of knowledge a person must know to understand what is healthy to eat?
2. What kind of foods should a person with an average BMI stay away from in order to maintain healthy?
3. How do you know how many calories is okay to eat?
4. How many grams of fat is it okay to eat when reading a nutrition label?
5. How many calories is it okay to eat when reading a nutrition label?
6. How does a person become overweight?
7. Is eating right enough to completely healthy?
8. What other factors are necessary to stay healthy?
9. How long does it take for a person to get used to their new diet plan?
10. How do you motivate someone to stick to their diet?
11. What is the most important thing to pay attention to when reading a nutrition label?
12. What kind of drinks are healthy to drink, excluding water?
13. Are there any helpful tips you know to stay on a healthy diet plan?
14. How does your metabolism work?
15. How can you boost your metabolism?
16. How to calories work?
17. Why is it so hard for people to eat healthy?
18. Is it okay to eat unhealthy junk foods in moderation when wanting to lose weight? Why or why not?
19. What changes should a person make if they do decide to make their diets a lifestyle change?
20. How do dietitians organize eating plans for their patients?
21. What are the most essential nutrients for a healthy body?

Blog #11: Third Interview Questions

1. What is the best way to achieve a nutritionally healthy lifestyle?
2. How do you effectively read a nutrition label?
3. How does the food industry effect people's diets?
4. What does the food industry label as unhealthy?
5. What should really be classified as healthy or unhealthy? For example artificial flavors.
6. What is the hardest obsticle when trying to keep a healthy diet?
7.  Do you know any tips on how to keep the drive to stick to a healthy diet?
8. What are some examples of diets people tend to follow because they believe it helps them, but are actually not healthy at all. 
9. When changing to a healthy diet, is it okay to have one cheat day to eat anything you want?
10. What are some common mistakes people make when going on a healthy diet?
11. What should a healthy diet include? Fruits? Vegetabes? Protien?
12. Are organic foods the healthiest to eat?
13. Do you know any other sources where I could learn about what is healthy and what isn't?

Blog #5: Second Interview Questions

• What made you want to become a nutritionist?
• What kind of schooling is required for you to become a nutritionist?
• What school did you go to?
• Is this an ideal career?
• How much information do you need, from each patient, to find out what kind of diet to have?
• When you went to college, did you know you wanted to become a nutritionist?

Blog #2: Interview Check

Q: Who are you interviewing and why?
A: I am going to interview my aunt, Jennifer Tran, who works at Kaiser. Her job is to prepare and serve patients at the hospital. I have chosen her as my first interview because she has to have a lot of knowledge about nutrition to be able to know what patients can eat what. It would be a good start to my topic because I could ask her about the basics in nutrition and find out what foods are good or bad for people.

Q: What additional questions will you ask them?
A: The questions I will ask besides the 5 required are:
What are the bad effects to having an unhealthy diet?
What happens if the patients do not follow their specific diet?
How do you know what a patient should eat?
What should I do first to begin my change to having a healthier diet?