diet & nutrition

You’re on the go. You have meetings and classes and work and even more things scribbled on the pages of your planner. Nighttime rolls around, and you realize that unidentifiable grumbling noise is, in fact, coming from your tummy. Here’s your dilemma—you have work in an hour but still need to show yourself some grub love.
You want to make your health more of a priority, but there’s no way you have time to cook healthy food each day.  Do you devote time to cooking or watch your resolve fade away with each order you place from a take out menu? 
Chocolate on the brain? Not surprising. Women (and men) have voted chocolate the most craved food. This semisweet cocoa delight made its way to the heart of a tug-of-war these past few years. “Health benefits!” news reporters chime excitedly when touching on new research results within the past decade. And every time, you say to yourself, “Chocolate? Really?
Eating in your university’s dining hall may be a necessary part of college, but making healthy choices in the cafeteria can prove to be difficult for the health-conscious collegiette™.
For us college students, winter vacation is an informal invitation to sleep, eat, and relax with friends and family, which often just involves more eating.
Four years ago, Taylor wanted to lose a few pounds. She experimented with diet pills for three years off and on, from Hydroxy Cut to Quick Trim to lipozene and several others. Transferring schools caused her to put on a little weight, so she turned to diet pills as her main method of weight loss for an upcoming cheerleading season. In September, she was rushed to the hospital for swollen kidneys.