The impact of bias on developing healthy lifestyles, understanding if personal perspectives impact modeling and recommendations of diet and exercise by educators to their students.

Findings indicate (1) portrayal of healthy behaviors to students exist but expressed opinion that families have a greater influence than educators on healthy lifestyles, (2) there appears to be an unawareness of personal bias or expression of implicit bias toward behaviors projected to students, and (3) health/physical education and life science teachers may be able to act as a source of unbiased information to provide resources to a school site to aid in developing healthy lifestyles.