Freshmen 15 Goes Further than Thought
We’ve all heard the infamous term of the “Freshmen 15″ pounds that every girl and guy that goes away to college typically gains during their freshmen year in college. Recent studies are coming up with a little more solid evidence as to the credibility of this longtime cliche about going away to school and sacrificing some body image for it.
It was found that college men gain significantly more weight in their first few years of college than women do. That’s right I said “years”, not year. The freshmen fifteen actually goes beyond the freshman year in college and eeks out into the sophomore and junior and senior years of college as well, with the pound increments going down slightly with time, but nonetheless still present.
Freshmen students typically pack on the most pounds in their first year because many times they are surrounded by the freedom to eat whatever they want, and in college towns the fare ranges from pizza to other fattening favorites like fast food such as McDonalds and Wendys.
Not to mention, many time the cafeterias at colleges offer a meal ticket with an amount on it that allows students to get pretty much whatever they want, from steakums to ice cream.
Most students when they’re on their own don’t have the judgment necessary to make the right choices, and choose the wrong foods in these cafeterias rather than the right ones, like salads and veggies.
In these new studies involving almost 400 college students, both men and women, it was found that women gained less than men in college, which was opposite of what was once thought.
