IDEA FIT TIPS – College Students are AT RISK.

Posted by Maria Kang on July 5, 2007

I wish I was in San Diego right now!!! I usually go to the IDEA convention EVERY SINGLE YEAR, but wasn’t able to because of a multitude of reasons:

- I’m not a working personal trainer, so I don’t need additional CEC’s
- The classes have become redundant and more tailored to people who are ‘beginners’ in the fitness industry
- I’ve been busy!

However! I do subscribe to IDEA’s Fit Tips and here’s some awesome information I found on College students and their increasing health risks!

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College Students Face Obesity, High Blood Pressure, Metabolic Syndrome
By April Durret

New data from the University of New Hampshire (UNH) finds that college students are in trouble. This widely unstudied demographic of college students indicates that this group of 18- to 24-year-olds is on the path toward chronic health diseases.

The UNH data, collected from more than 800 undergraduates enrolled in a general-education nutrition course, find that at least one-third of UNH students are overweight or obese, 8 percent of men had metabolic syndrome, 60 percent of men had high blood pressure, and more than two-thirds of women are not meeting their nutritional needs for iron, calcium or folate.

“They’re not as healthy as they think they are,” says UNH lecturer Ingrid Lofgren, who is collecting and analyzing the data with her Nutrition in Health & Well Being co-teachers Joanne Burke and Ruth Reilly, both clinical assistant professors, and lecturer Jesse Morrell.

The researchers, who presented their findings at the recent Experimental Biology Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, realized, however, that the size of the class (525 students per semester enroll in the course) gave them a gold mine of health information on a group about which little is known.

Read the rest of the article here.

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Have you ever seen a college cafeteria?! It’s a circus for bad foods!

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