We college students really need to eat more nutritious food to keep up our strength and energy.
As college students, we are very busy doing our assignments for our classes, doing extracurricular activities. Some of us have full or part time jobs, and some of us are living on our own or even living with busy families too.
No wonder we tend to forget to eat right. It’s easier to save time and grab fast food from places like Wawa, Burger King, ad McDonald’s. Or on campus, we use the vending machines and we tend to forget to read the labels.
I wrote an article about how great WaWa is, and they definitely have everything you could want, but eating out can cause problems if we’re not careful.
According to a Journal of the American Medical Association article referenced in an NYU (New York University) webpage on nutrition, “For students in particular, factors influencing dietary habits include time, availability of healthy options, friends’ eating habits, and nutritional knowledge.” It also said “During the first 3-4 months of college students gain an average 1.5-6.8 lbs, with the proportion of overweight or obese students as much doubling by the end of the first semester.”
The website adds that “On average college students eat at fast-food restaurants 1 to 3 times per week.” It says that “A major contributor to the obesity epidemic is the sugar consumed in sweetened beverages.”
When it comes to healthy eating and having a balanced diet we have to focus on what we put in our mouths.
We have to avoid skipping meals and eat the healthy stuff like fruits and veggies, a good variety of healthy dairy, nuts, and meat. We can do it.
