Interview #3- Melanie

Melanie: age-27, from Cinncinati, OH; currently a doctoral candidate for the OSU School of Communication 

Do you use the internet? What do you use the internet for?

Yup; everything; I do my work on there for school; check my email; keep in touch with family and friends; read magazines and news; go shopping

On a daily basis, what is your internet use like?

Check my email everyday; read my e-newletters; do research for work; watch hulu videos maybe

What are your favorite websites?

Hulu; foodnetwork; zappos

Have you ever heard of green tea? Have you ever tried it? Do you like it?

Yea, yeah, yeah it’s pretty good

Do you know the nutritional benefits of green tea?

Yeah it’s like supposed to be really good for you, right? Cleansing and all that

Do you drink green tea? How often?

Yeah when I can but I usually go with coffee

To what extent would you consider yourself focused on healthy eating/drinking or a healthy lifestyle?

I try hard but work gets in the way; I try to keep myself in good shape; it’s really important to me to at least try because I know I’m not at my best when I don’t eat right; get the right nutrients and workout

What are a few of the things you try to do as a part of your regular routine to stay healthy?

I try to workout a few times a week and try to eat vegetables; get enough calcium; I try to spend a lot of time outside since I’m inside most of the time for work

Does anything ever get in the way of you doing those healthy things? What are the barriers to your healthy lifestyle goals?

Grad school; deadlines coming up ; papers due; convenience of food being nearby

Have you ever heard of eating the green tea leaves?

No…

Did you know the nutritional benefits of drinking green tea?

No.. what are they?

What would I need to do to get you to eat green tea leaves once or regularly?

Taste- does it taste good? And maybe telling me exactly what are the specific benefits

How much more than drinking green tea is it better?

Are there flavors of green tea leaves? Like not just the tea leaf flavor

Already know green tea is good for me; no pre-existing fears…. Its ok… but I’m not a completely natural organic person

Tell me how I can eat it.

What do you think about the site?

Recipes are a good idea- I like to see that you can do so much with it

Is this website giving you enough information?

Yeah it seems to have a lot of stuff and I’m already convinced; I’d just need to know where I could get it and how I could use it