Using Interactive Technology to Promote Healthier Eating in Restaurants

描述（由申请人提供）：肥胖和其他与饮食相关的风险因素一直与在餐馆和快餐店用餐有关。这项SBIR提案提供了一种新的、潜在的强大策略，可以积极影响外出就餐时更健康的点餐行为。这项建议的长期目标是减少与离家吃饭有关的营养相关的健康风险，包括低水果和蔬菜摄入量以及高饱和脂肪、总脂肪、钠和卡路里摄入量。这个项目（第一阶段和第二阶段）的目的是开发一个商业上可行的技术平台，使餐馆能够在客人点餐时为他们提供：1)准确的营养信息；2)符合营养标准的经营养学家批准的菜单选择；3)减少卡路里水平的额外建议；脂肪和钠含量在大多数标准菜单上，而且根据餐厅客人的健康和营养目标提供个性化推荐。据推测，订购行为可以通过采用一种创新的新技术在销售点（决策时刻）受到影响：类似于“智能菜单”的iPad，通过一个诱人且易于使用的平台识别并推广营养师认可的健康餐饮菜单选择。所有菜单项都可以通过智能菜单订购。然而，特色部分将包括目前在HealthyDiningFinder.com上列出的项目，这是一个由疾病预防控制中心的SBIR项目资助的电子健康工具。所有经批准的健康饮食菜单选项都符合由健康饮食注册营养师团队根据美国农业部和其他主要健康组织的建议制定的营养标准。在第一阶段，健康餐饮将与可用健康（智能菜单系统的开发商）合作，进行形成性研究，以衡量消费者在使用智能菜单和传统点餐场景时健康餐饮选择（点餐行为）的数量差异。我们将在三家快餐连锁店（每家三家，共九家）实施以健康餐饮选择和相应营养信息为特色的智能菜单。这个项目建立在四个基础之上

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Obesity and other diet-related risk factors are consistently linked to dining at restaurants and fast-food eateries. This SBIR proposal provides a new and potentially powerful strategy to positively influence healthier ordering behavior when dining out at restaurants. The long-term goal of this proposal is to reduce the nutrition-related health risks associated with eating away from home, including low fruit and vegetable intake and high saturated fat, total fat, sodium and calorie intake. The aim of this project (Phases I and II)is to develop a commercially viable technology platform that will enable restaurants to provide their guests, at the time of ordering, with 1) accurate nutrition information, 2) a selection of dietitia-approved menu choices that meet qualifying nutrition criteria, 3) additional recommendations to reduce the levels of calories, fat and sodium in a majority of standard menu items and 4) personalized recommendations based on restaurant guests' health and nutrition goals. It is hypothesized that ordering behavior can be influenced at the point of sale (in the moment of decision-making) by employing an innovative new technology: an iPad like 'Smart menu' that identifies and promotes dietitian- approved Healthy Dining menu choices through an enticing and easy-to-use platform. All menu items are available for ordering through the Smart menu. Featured sections, however, will include items currently listed on HealthyDiningFinder.com, an eHealth tool funded through CDC's SBIR program. All of the Healthy Dining approved menu options meet nutrition criteria developed by Healthy Dining's team of registered-dietitians, in conjunction with the recommendations of the USDA and other leading health organizations. During Phase I, Healthy Dining will collaborate with Usable Health (developer of the Smart menu system) to will conduct formative research to measure the quantitative differences in consumer selection (ordering behavior) of the Healthy Dining choices while using the Smart menu versus traditional ordering scenarios. We will be implementing the Smart menus featuring the Healthy Dining choices and corresponding nutrition information at three quick-serve restaurant chains (three locations each for a total of nine locations). This project builds on four other SBIRs awarded to Healthy Dining by NCI and CDC.