{"id":6671,"date":"2015-10-30T09:35:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T16:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/tricky-treating-on-halloween\/"},"modified":"2023-10-03T10:20:46","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T17:20:46","slug":"tricky-treating-on-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/tricky-treating-on-halloween\/","title":{"rendered":"Tricky Treating on Halloween"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n    \n                                \n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--article-hero \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--article-hero\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n<div class=\"inner-wrapper\">\n  \n  \n  <div class=\"text-wrapper\">\n          <nav aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\" class=\"breadcrumbs\">\n        <ul>\n                      <li><a href=\"\/news\/stories\/\">News<\/a><\/li>\n                      <li><a 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trick-or-treating on Halloween and help her sort her candy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had a joke about how she loved the mini-Hershey bars, so she would negotiate with me for them,\u201d recalled Spruijt-Metz, professor of psychology (research) and director of the <a href=\"http:\/\/mhealth.usc.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mobile Health (mHealth) Collaboratory<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/static.usc.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">USC Dornsife\u2019s Center for Social and Economic Research.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe would bargain with me and always say that she wanted to keep those chocolates for herself,\u201d Spruijt-Metz said. \u201cNow that I\u2019m older, I know that she didn\u2019t eat them all, but it turned into a conversation in which she made me think about what I really liked and what I liked less \u2014 and then convinced me to give up the ones I didn\u2019t truly enjoy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Spruijt-Metz believes her mother\u2019s method of helping her evaluate the annual sugar haul set the stage for the thoughtful approach to eating she employs as an adult. She now encourages minority youth in Los Angeles to do the same through her programs to combat childhood obesity.<\/p>\n<h2>Children of the corn (and other vegetables)<\/h2>\n<p>Spruijt-Metz is the principal investigator on an initiative called <a href=\"http:\/\/virtualsprouts.com\/what-is-virtual-sprouts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virtual Sprouts<\/a>, a digital gardening game designed to change kids\u2019 dietary knowledge and behavior. \u201cI think it\u2019s more effective to help children plan what they <em>should<\/em> be eating to stay healthy \u2014 rather than telling them what they shouldn\u2019t have,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The program allows children in grades three through five to design virtual gardens, planting the computerized crops and watching them grow. It\u2019s already active in a few clinics in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/migration-uploads\/Candy2-2180.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"225\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Donna Spruijt-Metz, professor of psychology (research).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Spruijt-Metz also has a new program in the works, researching how families interact around food and how that affects overall health.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe program, through the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health, is called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/awardsearch\/showAward?AWD_ID=1521722&amp;HistoricalAwards=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">M2Fed<\/a>, which is short for Monitoring and Modeling Family-eating Dynamics,\u201d she explained. \u201cWe are using in-home wireless sensors to study families\u2019 interactions around food in real time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of how accurately people think they are reporting their eating behaviors to researchers and nutritionists, Spruijt-Metz believes it\u2019s impossible to know for sure what they actually consume.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd even if we did know exactly what people ate, how well are we doing as a society with messages like, \u2018Eat less sugar?\u2019\u201d she continued. \u201cNot well. But we do know that interactions around food significantly influence the way people eat \u2014 and that those behaviors and dynamics can be changed.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Maintaining <s>para<\/s>normal activity<\/h2>\n<p>Being a childhood obesity researcher, Spruijt-Metz fields questions every year about Halloween and how to handle the anomalous amounts of sugar entering households in one night. Ultimately, though, she says Halloween is something parents can use as a teachable experience \u2014 rather than a horror story.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf parents have already put in the work teaching their kids about healthful eating, it will be easier to keep them from gorging on Halloween candy,\u201d she said. \u201cBut it\u2019s never too late to start the conversation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter Halloween, I always ended up with a reasonable amount of candy, and my mom and I would agree on how much I could eat per day,\u201d Spruijt-Metz said. \u201cBut eventually I lost interest in it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And, philosophically, Spruijt-Metz thinks that as long as you eat your <em>real<\/em> sprouts and other healthful foods, treating yourself to sweets now and then is a part of a healthful lifestyle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI always keep a bowl of dark chocolate on my desk,\u201d she said. \u201cI love chocolate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  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