2. Questionnaire for grand parents
and parents
1)Was 'Healthy Eating' considered important then?
2) Name 3 essential things that define your health and
well being?
3) Do you think diets are useful or not?
Have you ever tried to go on a diet?
What kind of diet was it?
Did it work?
4) Do you think it is more important to eat tasty or
healthy food?
5) Do you agree with the saying: "Eat your breakfast,
share your lunch with a friend and give your dinner
to your enemy"?Why do people say so?
3. 6)What according to you defines a 'Healthy Life'.
7)Was the food served at that time of your teenage life in the family
healthy?
8).Where did your family buy their usual food? Did they produce
food themselves?
9) Did your family members practice some exercise to stay fit?What
did you practice as a teenager to stay fit?
10)Were there any nice facilities for you to practice sports/exercise?
11) Did you school do something to make the students stay fit?What
were the practices?
12) What do you think about the life of us teenagers regarding
healthy life? Do you think children have a healthier life today
than in your time?
13)What would you do to have a healthier life?
4. People interviewed
Mr G. S.
Venkatachalam
Mrs Philomeina
Iyer
Mrs Smita Sharma
Mr S. Irani
Mrs Poonam
Khanna
7. Interview
Interviews were conducted of people from each of the
three generations.
Few were ready to give an interview which was
recorded and uploaded on youtube
The links are as follows:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wePF-N-tjIA&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZvnwPDggyg&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDB75Bogk0M&feature=youtu.be
8. Those who were not ready to give an
interview were given the questionnaire
which they filled and submitted us.
Here is the representation of data
collected along with the comparison and
analysis of all the interviews.
9. 1) Was healthy eating
considered important during
your teenage years?
0
0.5
1
1.5
2
2.5
3
3.5
4
YES NO
Teenager
Parent
Grandparent
10. Analysis
From the above data it can be analyzed that
the parents were more considered and
focused on their healthy life than the
grandparents.
But teenagers seem to think that healthy
eating is very important even more than
parents and grandparents. But following it is
a big task.
11. 2) Was the food served in your
family healthy when you were a
teenager?
0 1 2 3 4
YES
BALANCED
NO
Grandparent
Parent
Teenager
12. Analysis
The data shows that grandparents during
their teenage years were the healthiest of all
as most of their food served at home was
healthy.
When our grandparents were teenagers,
there was very little availability of unhealthy
food. So they had no other alternative and
had to have only healthy food. Nowadays
unhealthy food has become a part of
everybody’s diet.
13. 3) Were there enough exercise
facilities in your area when you were
young?
Exercise
Teenager
Parent
Grandparent
14. Analysis
There were plenty of outdoor activities like
hockey, football, etc during the time when
grandparents were teenagers but hardly any
gyms so they had fewer facilities but they
utilized them very efficiently to remain fit.
Parents, when they were teenagers had the
facilities of gyms and other sports but did not
use it to the fullest just like us teenagers who
now have so many choices but no desire to
work out and stay fit.
15. 4) What according to you defines ‘Healthy Life’?
Name three such essential things that define your
healthy life.
Both grandparents and parents believe that
eating healthy, sleeping well and drinking
adequate amount of water is the key to
healthy life.
Grandparents emphasize on walking and
being hygienic for a balance healthy life.
Whereas, Parents focus on consumption of a
balanced diet.
16. •Diets- Do they Work? Have you tried
one?
5) Have you ever gone on a
diet?
6) Do you think diets are
useful?
Diet
Teenager
Parent
Grandpare
nt
Diet
Teenager
Parent
Grandpare
nt
17. Analysis
Grandparents, when they were teenagers, did
not go on diets because they never felt the
need to as they used to eat healthier food
than the parents as teenagers.
Therefore, parents felt that diets are useful
and grandparents did not.
Nowadays, mostly all teenagers go on a diet.
But their main motive is to look thin as they
think that being thin is being healthy.
18. Conclusion-
No, these days, the food that we teenagers
eat is mostly unhealthy. We also plan diets to
become thin, not stay healthy.When we
teenagers make our diets, it moslty includes
not eating some meals.That is a very wrong
practice as it does not help us to stay healthy,
it actually deteriorates our health.
19. Food Activity at the school
We conducted food activity at our school with
our class mates. We had food counters with
healthy food. We informed our guests about
the nutritional element in the food we
prepared, also the importance and benefits of
having food.
