Posted on February 2, 2012

This is the final article out of series about weight problems that a lot of students face. Excessive weight is harmful for a young organism: it affects a lot of major internal organs, thus making the long term effects of education and the life style, maintained during the years of studying, risky.
 
Check out the previous “freshman 15” articles on our blog. Be sure to follow the advise that we give and stay healthy! But lets cut to the chase.
 
If you do find yourself in the local artery clogger, order a salad to start with. Send the breadbasket back, and ask for everything with its sauce, butter, or dressing on the side. Drink water before you eat in order to fill yourself up a bit, Cut your portion in half to begin with and request a ‘doggy bag’ or clam shell container to take the remainder home. This will fit in a dormitory sized fridge, and can serve as a lunch or dinner the following day.
 
Problem: Change of foods
 
Many international students find cafeteria choices downright alien, or at best, exotic. At the least, the traditional, familiar, healthy foodways will be less available than they were at home. These are often millennia-tested, waist-friendly combinations of foods. Rice and legumes, as just one example, have healthily fed much of the world. Each culture adds its own wonderful unique spices and flavors that taste like home. Although since the 1970s, college cafeterias have tried to offer specialties such as vegetarian entrees, they tend not to get the ethnic tastes very well.
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Posted on February 1, 2012

Over the last months and years, we’ve reviewed pages and pages of different educational websites for students. However, we realize that there is still stuff that we are missing.
 
If you are studying in the US/UK, you probably spend more than you would like to (or than your parents would prefer) on education-related, or personal, software. This can be costly. For example, if you are a design student, you will quite likely need Adobe PhotoShop.
 
This carries a price tag of over 500 dollars! For a student, this is way too much. Even for those who are long past their student years, this is a large sum for an independent designer or hobbyist to invest in a piece of software that might or might not pay for itself in new business! Read more

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Posted on January 31, 2012

Wait! First, check out the previous “freshman 15” articles to find even more great weight loss tips!
 
Apart from requiring an inconvenient mid-year new clothing investment, weight gain can be a health burden. Earlier, we talked about ways to add physical activity to your day, and avoid emotional and situational factors that tend towards calorie imbalance. Here we’ll discuss some more factors to avoid and some actions to take.
 
College offers opportunities for great achievement and great failure, both academically and socially, with concomitant stress. Numerous temptations to relieve the tension of studying and dating with snacks, high calorie drinks, and late-night pizza runs spell disaster for the waistline.
 
Problem: The choices of eateries
 
College towns seem to attract the best and the worst of fooderies, and manifold food pitfalls for the unwary freshman. The corporate greaseburgers places are often the best-financed and closest to prime campus real estate. These places issue a siren song for weary students.
 
As an example, take Penn State in the center of Pennsylvania. This enormous campus IS the community, which had virtually no identity before the college was established.
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Posted on January 26, 2012

That first batch of extra poundage is devilishly difficult to shed, and may accompany you the rest of your life. Check out the first article on the topic and read on for more wight control tips.
 
Since obesity is such a health hazard, how can you avoid this unwelcome addition to your body? Moreover, why does it happen? Knowing why something occurs is a major accomplishment, and forewarned is forearmed.
 
Problem: Isolation from home
 
College takes kids away from home in ways that they have not usually experienced before. Even commuter students are likely to be gone from home more than in secondary school. This causes all sorts of potential problems, and being aware of them may help you to prevent negative results.
 
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To counteract this unaccustomed disconnection from one’s usual routine, make active attempts to keep a regular schedule for meals, and try to include familiar homemade foods whenever you can. If you are a commuter student, try packing at least a partial lunch from home or your dormitory refrigerator. This way you are not completely dependent on truck eateries (mobile food vendors), fast food places, and the college cafeteria.
 
It is certainly true that you can make friends during mealtimes in all these common eating spaces. You don’t want to miss such opportunities. Therefore, you want to retain a reason and excuse to socialize with your schoolmates. Many cafeterias will allow diners to eat some of their own food as long as they have made a token purchase. If your chums are getting their lunch from the food trucks, you can all sit together to eat whatever you have bought or brought.
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Posted on January 25, 2012

Have you ever had a situation when you are preparing to travel abroad, or for an important meeting with a business client from another country? I’m sure you have encountered at least one of the two. You are planning your trip, and realize that the language barrier might be a real problem. What should you do? Where should you go? Time is scarce and you don’t actually need to learn that much stuff, just some of the basics to help you manage daily life.
 
There is a solution for your problem. It’s called Imendi.com – it’s an online set of flash cards and tests, which offer you the basic foreign language learning experience. The service is pretty simple and at the same time helpful. For it to work, however, you have to be determined, and possess a great desire to learn the language. Read more

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