Small Steps to Health and Wealth™ Game
Food and Health Personal Finance
Small Steps
Changing Behavior Odds and Ends
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The Answer is:
Term given to the food industry
trend of serving large portion
sizes and “meal deals.”
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The Question is:
What is “super-sizing?”
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The Answer is:
Commonly used ratio between a
person’s height and weight that is
used to classify them as healthy,
overweight, or obese.
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The Question is:
What is body mass index (BMI)?
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The Answer is:
Commonly cited indicator
that a person is obese.
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The Question is:
What is having a body mass
index (BMI) of 30 or higher?
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The Answer is:
The difference between the energy
that people consume from food and
the energy that they burn from
physical activity.
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The Question is:
What is energy
balance?
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The Answer is:
Example of an automated health
improvement habit.
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The Question is:
What are routine health screenings,
“points” programs (e.g., Weight
Watchers™), and programmed
exercise routines (e.g., Curves™)?
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The Answer is:
Term given for the measure of
household wealth that is calculated by
subtracting debts from assets.
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The Question is:
What is net worth
(a.k.a., a balance sheet)?
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The Answer is:
Type of tax-deferred employer
retirement savings account.
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The Question is:
What are 401(k),
403(b), and 457 plans?
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The Answer is:
Generally recommended amount
of savings that should be set
aside for household emergencies.
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The Question is:
What is three to six
month’s expenses?
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The Answer is:
A disadvantage of making minimum
payments on a credit card.
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The Question is:
What are high interest costs and a
long repayment period?
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The Answer is:
Example of an automated
financial improvement strategy.
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The Question is:
What are payroll deductions for
retirement savings plans, automatic
deposits for stock and mutual funds, and
checking to savings account transfers?
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The Answer is:
Example of a small step to
improve health.
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The Question is:
What are: using less butter or
salad dressing, cutting portion
sizes, sharing a restaurant entrée’,
baking food instead of frying, and
10 minute units of exercise?
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The Answer is:
Example of a small step to
increase wealth.
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The Question is:
What are: saving loose pocket
change, saving $1 a day, adding
$1 a day to credit card
payments, and reduced
discretionary spending?
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The Answer is:
The process of earning interest on interest
on small dollar amounts of savings to
gradually increase wealth over time.
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The Question is:
What is compound interest
or compounding?
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The Answer is:
Federal government agency that
created the health promotion Web
site www.smallstep.gov.
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The Question is:
What is the U.S.
Department of Health and
Human Services?
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The Answer is:
The process of making regular
investment deposits at regular time
intervals (e.g., $50 a month).
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The Question is:
What is dollar-cost averaging?
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The Answer is:
Description of a person’s intended health
or personal finance behavior change with
a dollar amount and/or deadline date.
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The Question is:
What is a goal?
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The Answer is:
A reason for tracking current
eating and spending habits.
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The Question is:
What are: to understand current
habits, to acknowledge current
problems, and to identify potential
behavior changes ?
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The Answer is:
Making just a small behavior change
to improve health or wealth is a better
alternative than doing this.
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The Question is:
What is doing nothing?
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The Answer is:
Example of a positive environmental
influence to improve health.
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The Question is:
What are healthy cafeteria choices,
walking “buddies,” refrigerator and
microwave at work, buying healthy snacks
instead of “junk food,” employer fitness
program, etc.?
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The Answer is:
Stage of behavior change
where people are “clueless”
and unaware that a change
needs to be made.
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The Question is:
What is pre-contemplation?
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The Answer is:
Device used to measure the amount
of steps that a person walks per day.
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The Question is:
What is a pedometer?
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The Answer is:
Number of steps that the U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services
recommends that people walk per day.
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The Question is:
What is 10,000 steps (about 5 miles)?
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The Answer is:
Example of “small” (on a daily basis)
expenses that add up over a month
and could be decreased to save
money and/or reduce debt.
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The Question is:
What are fast food, lottery tickets,
snacks, lattes, etc.?
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The Answer is:
Number of extra calories per
day that will result in a 10
pound weight gain in a year.
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The Question is:
What is 100 calories per day?
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The Answer is:
An example that illustrates the “Meet
Yourself Halfway” behavior change strategy.
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The Question is:
What are: eating 1 cookie instead
of 2, buying 3 lottery tickets
instead of 6, taking half of a
restaurant meal home (i.e., doing
half of current practices)?
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