The term Freshman 15 is slang that is used to refer to the weight gain in students who enter colleges and universities. Studies have proven that a student is likely to gain approximately 15 pounds in weight within the first year that they join the institution. Weight gain is a problem that widely affects a significant proportion of the society owing to the diseases that may result because of unusual weight gain. Gaining weight may lead to one increasing his or her body mass index leading to one being overweight or suffering cardiac diseases. This paper is a proposal to the solutions that colleges and college students may put in place to solve the problems that result from freshman 15.
First, there is a need to understand the reason why students are likely to gain more weight within their first year in college. To begin with, …show more content…
The management needs to emphasize on the need of making healthy foods available such as whole grains, proteins from natural sources such as eggs and poultry and fruits to enable the students to make the right choice on the foods that they ought to undertake. Additionally, the management of the institutions needs to contract suppliers of the healthy foods to enable them to supply the institutions at a relatively lower price. Buying the foods cheaper would result in relatively more reasonable costs to the students when they buy the healthy foods. According to research, the preference of many youth and millennial on the fast moving consumer goods and binge foods is based on the relatively low costs and the affordability of the said products (Johnson 21). Therefore, making the healthy foods exclusively available and the relatively low prices would lead to a change in food preferences by the student and facilitate them in making decisions to have the healthy
First, there is a need to understand the reason why students are likely to gain more weight within their first year in college. To begin with, …show more content…
The management needs to emphasize on the need of making healthy foods available such as whole grains, proteins from natural sources such as eggs and poultry and fruits to enable the students to make the right choice on the foods that they ought to undertake. Additionally, the management of the institutions needs to contract suppliers of the healthy foods to enable them to supply the institutions at a relatively lower price. Buying the foods cheaper would result in relatively more reasonable costs to the students when they buy the healthy foods. According to research, the preference of many youth and millennial on the fast moving consumer goods and binge foods is based on the relatively low costs and the affordability of the said products (Johnson 21). Therefore, making the healthy foods exclusively available and the relatively low prices would lead to a change in food preferences by the student and facilitate them in making decisions to have the healthy