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August 23, 2005
Stations, the students are back at many of Virginia's colleges, and many first-year students will face the prospect of weight gain during the school year. It's called the "Freshman 15" the 15 or so pounds that first-year students can gain now that Mom's not around to tell them to eat their veggies.
Virginia Tech Human Nutrition, Foods, and Exercise Professor Kathy Hosig (HOE-zigg) ran a pilot study on first-year weight gain last year, and she's back with a follow-up this year.
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Last year, 83 students kept journals and were regularly measured for weight and body mass index throughout the school year. Turns out, calling it the "Freshman 15" for these students was about half-right.
IN: But of those...
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OUT: ...went both ways. |
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Going over the eating records of those students, Hosig says there are correlations between certain kinds of food and maintaining or losing weight.
IN: What we have...
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OUT: ...indicative of body fat. |
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Hosig plans another pilot study this year?a tough task with limited funding.
IN: What we're doing...
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OUT: ...points for participation. |
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This year's group will focus on using education to help students make better eating choices.
IN: and we're going...
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OUT: ...students didn't realize. |
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With all that information about nutrition out there these days, don't students have a handle on what's good for them to eat? Not necessarily, says Hosig.
IN: Probably these days...
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OUT: ...10 years ago. |
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Hosig said high school students just aren't getting the information about nutrition that they used to.
IN: We had a short...
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OUT: ...it used to be. |
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