The Carolinian [February 24, 2009]

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Thin for Life author speaks to students about healthy Weight
Lauren Robison
Staff Writer
Last Thursday nationally rec­ognized
dietician and author,
Anne Fletcher, spoke about ways
college students can lose weight
and keep it off. Fletcher's speech
in the Sullivan Science Building's
Jaylee M. Mead Auditorium was
through a partnership with Ara­mark
and was co-sponsored by
Student Health Services.
Fletcher is well known for her
knowledge on weight manage­ment
and has appeared on many
popular television shows includ­ing
"The View," "Good Morn­ing
America", and "CBS This
Morning." Her writing has also
appeared in many publications
including Yogue, Redbook, and
Better Homes & Gardens. Fletcher
has also written many books in­cluding
best-sellers: Thin for Life;
Eating Thin for Life; and Sober for
Good.
weight in a college environment.
Fletcher walked the audience
through ways that all students
could be successful with just a
few lifestyle changes.
Fletcher said that one of the .
main reasons students gain
weight in college is the unlimited
access to food that students are
given through the cafeteria buf­fets
and easy-to-spend declin­ing
balance. However, she als.o
said that the "Freshman Fifteen"
is a bit of an exaggeration. The
weight gain upon coming to col­lege
usually averages between five
and 10 pounds. Other reasons
why students tend to gain' weight
in college are:
Cooking for yourself: usu­ally
unhealthy frozen or simple
recipes.
Lack of money: fruits and
vegetables cosf more than chips
and Easy Mac.
Less physical activity
Stress eating: cramming candy
common myths ·about weight
loss.
One such myth was that if
you have been over-weight for a
long time, it is impossible to lose
weight and keep it off. Fletcher
proved this wrong with exam­ples
of success stories that she's
researched where the subject
had been overweight through­out
most of their childhood, but
were able get down to a comfort­able
weight and stay there.
Another myth was that obesity
was genetic and therefore impos­sible
to fight. Fletcher once again
· used successful people as wit­nesses
saying that 3.4 of the people
she researched had at least one
overweight family member, but
when they found a weight loss
plan that worked for them, they
too were able to reach a comfort­able
weight.
Fletcher's speech focused on
reasons why college students
gain weight, success stories of
young people who have lost and
kept weight off-:-who Fletcher
called "Masters of their weight
problems"-and keys to losing
before a big exam. · . Anne Fletcher signing her book Thin for Life after her speech on Thursday.
Next Fletcher introduced the
audience to her idea of"l2 Keys
to Success." The first of these keys
is to "Do it your own way."
Partying calories: "If you have
six beers, two nights a week for
40 weeks a year, that equals a
22-pound weight gain just from
booze," said Fletcher.
Lack of sleep
Unhealthy dieting: this can
mean anorexia or other disor­ders.
"These often backfire and
cause weight gain," says Fletcher.
Failure talk: the media con-
Sorority helps make a wish come true
Audrie Webster
Staff Writer
It is safe to say that many
people have heard of the Make
a Wish Foundation. However,
not many people can say that
they have witnessed a wish being
granted.
This was reality for all who
were present at the halftime show
of the UNCG Men's Basketball
game against Western Carolina
on Saturday as the sorority Chi
Omega made a wish come true.
Jason Bray is a 14-year-old
boy who attends Western Rock-
- ingham Middle School who is
suffering from muscular dystro­phy.
Little did he know what was
about to happen when he and
his family attended the basket-
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The members of Chi Omega waiting durng the game to present Jason Bray
with his wish.
ball game on Saturday.
At the halftime show, incred­ibly
surprised and excited, Ja­son
was informed of his grant­ed
wish~ to meet the NASCAR
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driver Jimmie Johnson. Not only
does Jason get to meet him, his
family is going with him to Las
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stantly tells people to lose weight,
and then says very few people can
actually lose it and keep it off.
To counter this last point,
Fletcher went on to invalidate
"Just because something
worked for a celebrity, or your
sister, or your friend, doesn't
mean it will work for you," said
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Topic: Undecided is not a .major
By Melanie Buchanan Mays
and Leslie Nguyen of Career Services
Not sure what you
should major in? Well,
you are not alone. Here
at Career Services, we
see students every day
who are undecided about
their mqjor.We use many
different avenues to help
students identify which
major is the best fit for
them.
For some ~dents, it
is just a simple matter of
talking to someone, be­sides
a parent or friend,
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about what he ur she is
interested in and what
they are good at.
For example, last week
a sophomore student
came to the office be­cause
he wanted to major
in M.arketing, but his
parents encouraged him
to major in Finance.
A good portion of the
session was spent with
me asking the student
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