College Enivornment

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College Enivornment

Table of Contents
Introduction Page 1
The Freshmen Fifteen Page 2
Dining Hall Menus Page 2
Vegetarians Page 3
Eating Disorders Page 3
Causes of Anorexia Nervosa Page 5
Personal Hygiene Page 6
Illnesses Page 6
Mononucleosis Page 7
STDs Page 8
HIV virus Page 9
On Campus Health Services Page 9
Introduction
When one goes away to college, their life changes dramatically. They are forced to make changes in their own lives in order to adapt to college life. When one is in high school and living at home, their eating habits and personal hygiene practices are for the most part controlled by their parents. They are told what to eat and when to eat it. They are told to keep their room clean and to take their vitamins, etc. When one moves away to college, they are on their own. There is no one telling them to clean their room, or to do laundry or what they have to eat. In some colleges and universities, it is required that freshmen live on campus and eat at least two meals a day in the dining hall. This isnt necessarily for the university to monitor a students eating habits but rather to get the student acquainted with the campus and other people living there. Food served in college dining halls has not been known for its nutritional value. However, over the past couple of years college chefs have been working to change that. While a lot of students have committed to eating the healthier foods and trying to stay healthy, the vast majority lives on pizza and taco bell or any other cheap fast food chain that is open until the late hours of the night. College is a fast paced environment and fast food caters to college students. In this fast paced environment, students more often than not neglect their health and personal hygiene and the consequences range from obesity to deadly eating disorders.
The Freshmen fifteen is one of the most dreaded rights of passage into college. It is a well-known fact among college students, that one gains fifteen pounds during the first year of college life. Women are the main targets of this incident but men are also affected. When everything around a person is changing, that person must also change.
Studying hard and writing many papers goes hand in hand with eating pizza, drinking beer and going for days without sleep. A person who has eaten healthy for their entire life can get pulled into this lifestyle very easily. It seems that almost everyone on the campus lives like this and when you look at a students s...

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