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Meredith I Icrald October 2.1996 Campus Extra Where’s your milk mustache? ADVANTAGE: CoUege^ College students who drink milk tend to le who don't drink milk; > Exercise College milk drinkers say they exercise regulariy compared to students wrtio drink milk less than enee a week. >tudent Milk Drinkers ad a healthier lifestyle than college shidents > Calcium watcii Milk drinkers are ttiree times more likely to watch the smount of calcium they get in Iheir diets than non^llk drinkers. > Fast food Milk drinkws eat fast food less frequently than norHnltk drinkers. Soum: Co9*ga Etlng hao aunny, conaici»a Ropi > Eating vegetables Milk drinkers versus non-milk drinkers ere more likely to eat iheIr vegetables. H Slarefi WorW»nk «nd magaUnt, I9M. By Kristin Davis You’re on your own tiow, you've ditched the 11:30 curfew, aiid you rarely get to sleep before two in tlie morning. So what now...you have everytliing togeilier, right? Remember those midnight plione calls to Papa Jolm’s and tliai Mountain Dew you guzzled instead of eating breakfast? Believe it or not, what you art eating during yourcollcge years is important and like your education, is crucial to your future. A new survey by Roper Starch Research, in combination magazine, points 10 tlie maturing attitude of college students toward nutrition and health. More college stu dents have a desire to lead a hcaltlty lifestyle. According to the College Eating Index, where more than 500 American college students were surveyed, 98% are concerned with their health and 80% presume they are eating a well-bal- aiKed diet. However, tliese good intentions for their health are hidden by the overuse of crash diets, skipped meals, and nutrient-lacking foods and drinks. What college students don't realize is tliat tliey can obtain most of the nutrients they need to remain healthy the right way in just one location—their milk glass! Experts believe now that there is a type of “calcium crisis” terrorizing college campuses across the country. Three out of four students (74%) are drinking a glass or less of milk aday, while tlie National Institutes for Health recom mends for college students 1,200-1,500 mg of calcium daily—a total of three 8-ounce glasses of milk. “While college students say they are con cerned about health, they still havca lot to learn about nutrition,” says Susan Barr, Ph.D„ pro fessor of nutrition at the University of British Columbia, “The current obsession with fat and calories has college students cutting out meals and certain foods tlieir bodies need. The cal cium crisis is frightening because college-age students are unaware of the effects that a cal cium deficient diet can have on their bodies in tite future.” Most college students are more aware of the benefits of eating more healthy foods like chicken and pasta, ratlier than the traditional pizza and junk food. Also, most are intensely interested in figlitiug the freshman fifteen. Ac cording to the survey, more than three in ten college students say they ’ ve gained weight since they’ve left home. Those extra calories and pounds sneak upon you while you’re snacking during those late-night study sessions. Instead of snackingon thenot-so-light cookies and pop- tarts, drink a glass of skim milk—80 calories per cup and zero, yes zero, fat grams. The stjrvey also revealed several other un healthy eating trends among college students. Eighty percent of students skip a meal or two during the week, and 79% say tliat breakfast is the meal most often skipped. Half usually grab something fast to eat, and 49% often eat late- night snacks. By performing these unhealthy eating habits, skipping meals, and eating on the run, you can begin to feel like you're running on empty. Witliout tlie energy that proper nutrition can supply, you rarely have the potential to meet tlie physical and mental demands of a college hfestyle. Unhealthy eating wiil not only affect you while you are in college bui in tJie years to come as well. Take your bones, for example. The college years represent a lime period of building bone mass and density. Bones continue to grow until your mid-30's. Although you don't grow any taller, you bones continually gnow denser. Drinking milk and having the proper amount of calcium now at diese influential years can make all thedifferencewithmaintiiirangbonedeiisity and slowing bone loss during aging, For women especially, it is never ton early to start thinlting about osteoporosis—a bone crippling disease thatcauses bonesto fracture ea.sily.foundlargely in elderly people. But why don’t students drink milk? Forty- four percent of college students say they don’t drink milk because it is notreadily available and convenient. However, most college cafeterias have milk dispensers or cartons of milk avail able at every meat. Also 14% say they don’t drink asmuch milk because mom and dad aren’t tliere to make them drink it anymore. Why should students drink milk? Although milk drinking is on the decline on college cam puses, those who do drink milk tend to lead more healthier lifestyles than non-milk drink ers. College students who drink milk are more likely to eat healthful foods—64%of milk drink ers vs. 56% of non-milk drinkers eat breads and grains, and 58% of milk drinkers vs. 49% of non-milk drinkers eat vegetables. Also. 31% of milk drinkers say they exercise on a regular basis compared to only 6% of student who drink milk less than once a week. Moreover, female college students tend to be more conscious about what they are eating than male students. Seventy percent of females watch tbeir fat intake compared to only 39% of males. On the flip side, 65% of men eat late- night snacks while only 35% of women admit to having the late-night munchies. Also. 52% of men don’t spend time thinking about what they eat, and 37% of women seriously consider it. To help spread tlie word to college students about the importance of milk everyday, the “Milk, Where’s Your Mustache?” education campaign is featuring new celebrities with col lege-age appeal to motivate students about the benefits of milk and the many other nutrients you can receive from milk. Celebrities included in this campaign for milk are Neve Campbell, Spike Lee, and Tyra Banks. This educational campaign is sponsored by the National Fluid Milk Processor Promotion Board, in associa tion with Sports lUusiraled and Cosmopoliian. The milk college tour begins in September and will stop at more tlian 100 colleges from Cali fornia to Florida. The college outreach program also includes a national college tour, the 1-800-WHY-MILK hotline, and the whymilk.com Web site. Those visiting the Web site will be able to receive a customized diet and nutrition analysis based on the student's age, sex, and health goals. They also can download tlie famous milk-mustache celebrities to use as screen savers. So.thecardshave been laidonthe table, and the point of tlie game is to see who is t'', healthiest—milk drinkers or those who prefer something else. Milk just isn't for kids any more, and in the long run you’ll be glad you spent those dollars at thegrocCTy to havemilk in your fridge. By Danielle L. Mir. co-founder of Angels for tl»e Environment As autumn approaches the days become shoner, there are long, cold nights and the soil become nitfogen deficient, which is a strong clue for the perennial and biennial plants to go into donnaiicy. Gradually the jwocess of pho- tosyntliesis slows down untilit eventually stops, and the leaves no longer produce food. The leaf sends nutrients to the branches and twigs to store during the winter. As the leaf starts todie. it loses it green pigment and starts to reflect the Angels for the odier colors that it uses to absorb light energy, which causes us w see a variety of colors. Other changes (chemically) also occur in the leaf tliat produce tlie array of colors. The tree allows tlie leaves to die and break otT at the ba-ie of the leaf, no die dry winter air will not dry out the tfee since leaves lose a great deal of water. What I just described is an over- suiiplified definition of tlie processes that trees go tlirough in the autumn season. As you walk Environment around the campus, look and see if you can find the bright yellow leaves on the gingko uees or thebrightred leaves on the Chineseiiiapleu’ees. The leaves will not be as bright this year due to the extremely wet summer. Angels for the Environment will be having their next meeting at 10a.m. on October 11 in 107 Joyner. We wiil be planting tlowers around campus on October 26. there will be a t-shirt sale towards the end of O;(ober and we will be making sashes on October 19 from 7-9p.m. in 315 Heihnan. Come join us anytime. If you have any questions feel free to call Katie Robinson or Mary Sharpe at x7976 or Dan ielle Mir at x7778. AFE has helped at the Triangle Land Conservancy and volunteered at the Umstead Festival.
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