The Freshman 15
-I'll have a double-double with cheese animal style, a large Coke and a side of Animal Fries, dude I'm so drunk!
They're on their own for what is very likely their first time, mommy and daddy aren't there to say no, and lil' Johnny just did his first keg stand last night. The "Freshman 15", the short sentence above is the culprit. With excessive drinking in college a growing trend since Animal House and fast food restaurants staying open for those mid-night "fourth meal" rushes eating healthy in college is an oddity. But, when high schools are now taking soda machines out of their cafeterias and replacing them with low calorie aspartame filled juice drinks and serving pizza that many refer to as cardboard is it truly turning students into health advocates, or just preparing them to be awed by the buffet style of the college cafeteria?
Now I know this must be weird coming from a kid pushing 150 pounds when he's soaking wet, and can eat about 3 Big Macs without gaining a pound, but the whole healthy food binge America is on is total Bologna to name a bad meat. I live in a residence hall on campus, I did a survey, and out of the 100 residents surveyed (capacity 200 residents) over half would rather go to McDonald's than eat in the cafeteria on a given day. Predicting every hall would be around the same number, over 800 students would pick fast food over the “healthy” alternative…the cafeteria. The “Caf” can’t be that bad you ask? Wrong! In a conversation with a female friend, after a doctor appointment of hers, she was told she needed more calcium, she replied that she drinks milk all the time. Her doctor replied if it’s milk from your cafeteria, it doesn’t have the same amount of calcium as the milk you would buy from the store does. Now that isn’t a fact but it’s a doctors suggestion…
I’d hate to say it but maybe we’re jumping the gun by starting these youngsters on what seems to be a healthy food frenzy at the age of 6, let them eat their dyno nuggets and real mac and cheese, and leave weight watchers for when they realize that this world now a days revolves around how you look, and then maybe they’ll wake up and smell the decaf low carb Sam’s Club brand coffee, before rolling out of bed their senior year of college 20 pounds over weight.
