University Daily Kansan / Thursday, September 8, 1988
Health
11
The
Freshman 15
By Debbie McMahon Kansan staff writer
Freshmen beware! Especially if you you're worried about gaining weight, because a lot of you will experience the "freshman 15," said Ann Kohl. dietitian at the Student Health Services at Watkins Memorial Health Clinic.
You can live at the dorm or off campus, but the 15 can find you and latch on, Kohl said. And right where you don't want it.
"It is a reality for certain individuals," Kohl said. "I've seen a lot of freshmen who have experienced it year after year."
Whether men and women would gain the lift that it gave to someone in Kokopelli, Kosovo, could pile gain weight as they got older, due to changes in their metabolism, but not in their biology.
The freshman 15 is the theory that students gain 15 pounds during their first year of college.
"I think the college university atmosphere lifts itself more to weight gain," Kohl said. "It predises one for it."
Kohl said that in her experience, women usually gained weight during their middle to late 20s. And men during their late twenties and early 30s.
"It's due to a combination of food choices, lots of fast food and alcohol, and a decrease in physical activity."
Since mom isn't doing the cooking anymore, food choices sometimes are high in calories and fat, Kohl said.
Frey Ziperstein, Chicago freshman, said that he'd never had a chicken sandwich, worried about gaining. But he said that he ate pizza or fast food at least once a week.
"If I get hungry around midnight to two in the morning I might order a pizza," he said.
The only other option would be to go to the vending machines at Templin Hall, where he lives.
"But sometimes Snickers just doesn't satisfy you," he said.
He said that the women he knew seemed to be more concerned about gaining weight than men, with some having brought schools to college.
"This one girl I know said. There's so many pretty girls here, the competition is high to find a guy. So I've got to look my best." Zippeenstein said.
But he said his male friends weren't concentrating on weight and were instead concentrating on having a good time. If they drink or eat a basketball or some other form of recreation to work it off, Zippeen said.
Tracey Hamilton, Perryburg,
Otsego, Oro Grande, said she had never
worried about gaining. But she said
her sister and her best friend's sister
were all underage.
If she were to gain weight though, she said she would not rely on dieting to lose it.
"I know I wouldn't stick to it." Hamilton said. "I think today people are a lot more exercise-conscious than diet-conscious."
Dietes are almost set up to fail, dietitian Kahl said. They don't tend to be effective in the long run, and are difficult to stick to and a slow method of weight loss unless exercise is incorporated into the diet. Even if you discipline you, end up feeling deprived and go on a binge of
"I tell my clients, as an incentive,
'The more that you exercise, the
more you can eat.' "she said.
The American Health Association has said that dives alone won't work without aerobic exercise. Aerobic is defined as 20 minutes of continuous activity in which the heart rate is at least 45 percent of its maximum, Koha said.
One way to get an aerobic workout is to do a aerobie workout KU offers mary classes at Robinson Center. Lawrence has lots of health clubs.
Sarah Helfman own Bodyshapes at Sixth Street and Kasold Drive. Only women can join, and she said ages of members vary from 15 to 82
A person who wants to lose weight should begin an aerobic exercise program and stick to it, Hoffman said.
"Consistency is the answer to losing weight and staying fit," she said. "With dieting you lose muscle and slow your metabolism."
Both of these effects actually make it easier to gain weight.
Lori Irving, fourth year graduate, studied in clinical psychology, helped found a support group for people with anorexia and depressed patients accompanied with anorexia nervosa and balmia. She said that society belief has increased the increase of eaters' disorders.
"In the 1926s the slender, boyish look of the flappers was in," Irving said. "Then around Marianlyn Morse's time, women padded their bras, trying to look more voluptuous. Now, since the late sixties, that is in."
"A lot of it is media created. In the last five to 10 years the epitome of beauty is to look like a toothpick.
"But the good news is that in the August 1988 issue of American
Illustration by Kim Mallory KANSAN
By Debbie McMahon
Kansan staff writer
For now, thin is in. And some put their health, even lives, at risk to get thin.
Anorexia nervosa and balaria are life-threatening食 disorders that come from eating, sadness and anxiety. She studies clinical psychology. She also is the co-founder and last year's supervisor for the University of Kansas branch of Anorexia associated Disorders support group
Based on her studies, she estimates that 5 percent of KU freshmen women are candidates for developing one of the disorders.
Ann Kohl, dietician at Watkins Memorial Health Center, said the disorders occurred at KU.
Trying to lose the 'freshman 15' may put life in danger
"I have seen an increasing number of students with eating disorder mostly. But that could be because anorexies don't view themselves as food."
"The increase includes both men and women. But we see mostly women who abuse food."
The problem is both psychological and physiological. Kohl said.
"It manifests itself in a dislike for oneself in food abuse It becomes a psychological attack on the body of a healthy diet, which most of the time it
does." Kohl said.
Irving said there were a lot of causes for the disorders.
Socio-cultural definitions of what is beautiful cause a lot of people to develop the disorders, she said.
"Now it's thin equals beautiful equals valuable." Irving said.
Sometimes the disorders are psychological and are caused by family problems.
And sometimes the disorders are biological in cause. Some victims have histories of depression, alcohol or substance abuse.
but usually in different wavs
Although it is more common for women to develop the diseases, Irving said, men also are affected.
often tend to be bulimic and go on eating bites. Irving said, "Then they get reaked out and eat the calories to work off all these calories."
Some of the effects of the disease include the rotting of the teeth, tearing of the lings in the esophagus and other GI problems, muscle damage and heart failure. Irving also said some of the symptoms of bulimia included recurrent episodic binging, secretive eating, self-induced vomiting and abuse of drugs.
Irving said that there was a possible combination of the two disorders called bulanorexia.
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