The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, October 21, 1998, Image 3

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Page 3 • Wednesday, October 21, 1998
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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.
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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.
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