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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 21, 1998)
b Battalion Aggielife Page 3 • Wednesday, October 21, 1998 proving outside appearances can prove harmful to the inside Univeisiti usforfe’ id . in lie I at 6934:1 BY STEPHEN WELLS The Battalion tanding in line at the all-natural, fitness juice store. Student A contemplates his options. Starting with the basic high-protein carbo shake, he adds the male hormone supplement, the Scot- ippen ginseng and nature’s own ground insect shells. Across tllirsdc P n ’ on ^ decision Student B has to make is whether to glut ^; self on pepperoni pizza or maybe take a trip to the salad bar for (AlcolKila erity. Same wholesome goodness, same price, and Student B ereVil ... s not end up hungry after an hour. )m a ,t : Dften, the desire to go to any length to look and feel better leads [ss than desired results. College students fall prey to some eas- [voidable health and financial pitfalls every day in their pursuit iee Z, liveliness. * [inly a few years ago, dietary supplements were more a doctor’s i cription than a means toward killer biceps. Today they are be- Sold out of storefronts in the mall, and students are spending a sltvOwl e P ort * on °1 their disposable income on milkshake recipes. Un- lerewi 11 * unatel V’ ma Y be wasting their money. m f )r. Jane Cohen, a health educator and nutrition specialist at the ihio m |^ eu t e l Health Center, said dietary supplements are just a re- tsh of the foods we already eat. . I.. , lAlot of people who are taking dietary supplements really do fgffl Ineed them,” Cohen said. “If you need extra calories, supple- X Utii ft 5 he one way to get them. Taking supplements for tattamii | no acids usually doesn’t help because we already get plenty Jp otein in our diets. If you need more protein, eat more eggs, fe or meats.” iince students can expect to pay $20 or more for a protein shake |i that may last a couple of weeks, students could easily save hun- Isof dollars a year by eliminating or reducing their unnecessary m ke consumption. Another new health fad among the more alcohol-aware students te recent scientific statement that drinking alcoholic beverages i be a good health decision. Specifically, the studies indicate >e who drink one glass of wine per day have lower levels of low- sity lipids (“bad” cholesterol) in their blood. Tap water just as safe as packaged water, experts say BY MARIUM MOHIUDDIN The Battalion T here is a trend hotter than the run ways of Paris and more popular than the resurgence of platform J shoes and bell bottoms. Almost all students can be seen with it and ' drinking from it. The biggest fashion statement to hit the scene is bottled water. In the state of Texas alone, 343 million gal lons of bottled water were sold in 1997, enough for every Texan to have consumed 11.6 gallons of bot tled water each. However, debates have sprung up whether bottled water is authentic or whether tap water is still reliable. Photo Illustration by Mike Fuentes ■corrosisc requires; i (or equipoii depar rying ni! .e bacter led byV. hi enzir ; 0 hen said it is especially harmful for students to make up for lost years of not drinking on a few Friday nights. Beer has calories and not much else in the way of nutrition,’ en said. “It takes thirty minutes to walk off the calories in one As far as the (low-density lipidsj are concerned, you can do age same thing with red grapes and blueberries as with wine. The njMtochemical responsible is the same.” /lore often than not, a student will be less interested in getting jI || ie than in dropping a few pounds to fit into last year’s swimwear. oftheAn knee-jerk reaction is to go on a diet. While some diets are if,). Ithy and get fast results, more often than not a fad diet can lead ™ tdent into trouble. MIKE FUENTES/The Battalion Cohen said one diet standby, the water diet (also the “noth ing but fruit” diet), is an invitation to trouble. “A body requires a certain amount of calories to function cor rectly,” Cohen said. “If your caloric intake drops too low, your body begins to think you’re in a starvation situation and holds onto as many calories as it can.” Cohen said the pounds a student loses on a fad diet often come right back because there is no real weight loss. “You may be just losing water,” she said. “Carbohydrates hold water, and when they’re burned, you lose water. Also, if you don’t get the proper nutrition in your diet, your body will begin breaking down fat-burning muscle to make up for the lost nutrients.” Another familiar dieting pattern is the ever popular yo-yo diet. Cohen said it is not unheard of for these diets to land the di eter in medical trouble. see Vanity on Page 4, Needs for the Body Be it a bottled water company or the municipal water source, they all agree about the essential part water plays in the body. Amy Chapman, a lecturer and di rector of dietetic internships in the human nutrition section of the De partment of Animal Science, said water is not needed to attain miner als or vitamins but serves a bigger purpose for the body. “All water is needed for the bio chemical process,” she said. “That is what it is made for. It helps for things like digestion and excretion. “A healthy person needs about 35 milliliters per kilogram of body : weight. An average female would need two liters, and an average male fei would need three liters of water. ” Michael Neuwirth, corporate communication director for Evian National Spring Water, said both tap water and bottle water do one job very well — hydration. “Hydration is now being em braced by dietitians and nutrition ists,” he said. Is Bottled Better? Nutrition M Serving $s» SfaSUft, Servings Per Calories 0 •Porers G»$ Vate»ttia&i 1 ast^eaet. m s £** i asm INGREDIENTS: SrWiSB' SOKi N*n»tSC6*«3* CABQNRTBS.WCKfc'ra' see Water on Page 4. —ig yaiifpM jng Editoi lion Editff 3to Editor Editor iitor Producer kations.airt/ 1 ’ local, and 18 l i andi** wl COME BEFORE 4 P.M. FOR FASTER SERVICE! Little CaesarsPizza CUSTOMER (APPRECIATION PAY! ttesuiww^ ,idatC## Station,'* r 5 *' i K lY /arid rs| iheS/ aid COLLEGE STATION 2501 S. TEXAS AVENUE 696-01 91 THANK YOU! THANK YOU! 696-0191 THANK YOU! THANK YOU! WITH CHEESE AND PEPPERONI No substitutions. Round pizzas only. Limit 5 pizzas. 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