1. Simple Short Reports #2 Junk Food Monkeys Dr. Craig Jackson Senior Lecturer in Health Psychology School of Health and Policy Studies Faculty of Health & Community Care University of Central England craig.jackson@uce.ac.uk

2. *Title taken from Robert M Sapolsky Junk Food Monkeys* – a thought experiment Masai Mara National Game Reserve, Serengeti Plain of KENYA SETTING Many game lodges and accommodation facilities for foreign tourists Tourists - 1st world extraction, mostly Western, with accompanying diet Local staff at lodges are expected to eat the same food as the tourists Large areas set aside in the ground as land fill pits for refuse Incidence of obese Olive Baboons reported near game lodges RESULT Incidences of obesity, hypertension, and diabetes in local staff. TASK Develop a research methodology to test if Western diets are to blame for the health patterns of the local workers

3. Junk Food Monkeys – a thought experiment Dependent Variables? General health - BP, weight, diabetes, BMI Independent variables? Diet Levels of IV? Western diet, Local diet Controlled Variables Exercise between the different diet groups, Age, General Health at start Study design Independent design - cross-sectional study at one period in time Within subjects - measure health over time e.g. 1 and 6 months