Avoiding the Freshman Fifteen: How To Keep The Pounds Off

by Shereen Jegtvig

We’re still in the first weeks of fall semester at most colleges, which is an interesting, exciting and possibly bewildering time for a lot of college freshmen.  For most, it’s their first home away from home, there’s classes, homework, new social groups – it’s really a stressful time of adjustment.  And along that stress and excitement can be accompanied by the dreaded “freshman fifteen” which is  the extra pounds that young people often gain when they go off to college for the first time.

Why does it happen?  Maybe there are more choices and less supervision.  Without Mom or Dad to provide the healthy snacks, college kids may succumb to the temptation of a junk food diet.  Now it’s easy to keep junk foods in the dorm room as snacks.  Or maybe some students use comfort foods to cope with the added stress of school and living away from home for the first time. Read more

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