Volume 124 Issue 20
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HEALTH
From healthy eating to an unhealthy obsession
One eating disorder that makes being healthy harmful.
Anorexia was coined in 1868. Bulimia was coined in 1979. Orthorexia was coined in 1997. The first two you may be familiar with, but the third term may have you pulling Google up on your phone to search it. These three words share similar roots, but eventually branch out into different disorders.
DEFINING A DISORDER
"Health Food Junkie"
It may be hard to differentiate between a healthy eater and someone who has Orthorexia. Timberline Knolls, a residential treatment center out of Lemont, Ill., provides a clear-cut guide to determining the disorder. Here are a few questions to ask yourself to figure out if you're a healthy eater or a "health food junkie."
1. Do I completely avoid foods with artificial colors, flavors or preservatives?
2. Has my opinion of acceptable foods reduced my diet to consuming less than 10 foods regularly?
3. Do I have a fear of eating out because I cannot control how my food is prepared?
Orthorexia is an obsession with healthy or righteous eating. Due to the fact that it's a newer disorder, many may be seeing this term for the first time, but it shouldn't be undermined. In 2004, the University of Rome surveyed 400 students to see how prevalent the disorder was. Out of those 400, 28 of them (6.9 percent) showed orthorectic behavior, which is a higher percentage than Anorexia and Bulimia combined.
Before you think you don't fall into this category, ask yourself if you are a healthy eater, and then you can start to define the lines between healthy and obsessive.
Let's pretend for a minute that you love celery because it's an unprocessed whole food. You love celery so much, in fact, that you eat it every single day because you are obsessed with the health benefits. Then you discover that celery is better once dipped in hummus, but you make sure the hummus doesn't contain preservatives or artificial dyes that could be considered unhealthy. Next, you read an article about the health benefits of carrots, so you add those into your daily food routine. Pretty soon you are only eating five or six different foods because these foods are what you have established in your brain as "healthy."
VARIETY IS KEY
You may shrug this off as selective or picky eating, but restricting yourself to only a few specific foods can be dangerous. "A
limited diet can create nutritional deficiencies leading to a compromised immune system and a greater risk for many illnesses," says Ann Chapman, dietitian at Watkins Memorial Health Center. Our society has become desensitized to diets that restrict because they have made it normal to become a selective eater. Some diets have you eliminate an entire food group (carbohydrates for the Atkins diet) making it more acceptable to have particularities of foods.
EVERYTHING IN MODERATION
Despite the stigma, it is acceptable to eat processed foods in moderation, according to Chapman- especially since avoiding processed foods or foods with additives/preservatives in them makes your grocery shopping experience less than exciting. The broken grocery cart with the sticky wheel and slob-
berry handle bars may not be your idea of fun, but nixing nearly every eaisle puts you... well, at the production section. Jon Marzette, a senior from Lawrence, doesn't let the center or frozen food aisles scare him. "I just eat whatever I think is awesome, and that is usually pizza, burgers, wings and more pizza. If it's 'healthy,' then that's just a plus," Marzette says.
THE HEALTHIER ALTERNATIVES
While some can eat whatever fits under a $5 budget without blinking an eye, others get sucked into being overly health conscious. The University of Kansas has many options to healthier, unrestricted alternatives. The KU Wellness through Nutrition organization is one that provides students with knowledge on healthy food alternatives as well as ways to cook healthier. Matt Koontz, a senior from Overland Park, is the president of the organization and has a faithful mind and eye when it comes to food. "What I eat plays a significant enough role in my overall wellness that healthy eating becomes a conscious decision," Koontz says. He is healthy about being healthy and knows that his energy relies on getting enough of the right kinds of food. Eating a wide range of foods is necessary, and when one begins to eliminate or restrict certain foods in an attempt to achieve what they think is ultimate health, it can eventually take a reverse effect. Chapman suggests a website called www.chosemyplate.com. This website can help detail a healthy, variety-filled diet. So before you begin to limit your foods to only a few, consider being healthy rather than obsessive over health.
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Students know the challenges of waking up for that 8 a.m. class. But some students — much younger students — understand a different struggle. These students, along with getting up early, must make their way from the Lawrence Homeless Shelter. In the morning, a group of 17 children woke up and shared two showers and two toilets along side 14 adults. After getting ready they went upstairs and waited with 40 more adults for breakfast, or walked to school and received a free meal at school.
"Kids are so adaptable. The stressors we see are getting used to a new school and the stigma that may come with the label shelter kid' or 'homeless kid,'" said Jennifer Davis, the case manager at the Lawrence Community Shelter. "Luckily, so many of them are going to the same school that they
Johanna Moon, a student at Cordley Elementary, leans on the front door of Lawrence Community Shelter early Thursday morning as she waits to go to school. There is a large number of families with children elementary age that are currently living here.
the past, it would be just one new kid coming from the shelter. He or she would stand out a little bit more."
According to the Kansas Point in Time Homeless Count for Douglas County, a biannual report, the Lawrence school district counted 100 children ages K-12 who were homeless in 2009 and 149 in 2011, accounting for a 49 percent increase.
Davis has seen a dramatic increase in family homelessness in Douglas County.
The shelter began its Family Program at the end of 2008. In 2009, there were 14 families with 24 adults and 24 children in the program. In 2010, there were 50 families with 67 adults and 83 chil-
The school district defines homeless under the McKinney-Vento Act, which includes families that are double-up or staying with family or friends.
viduals here struggling. Their self-
esteem is being damaged each day
they're here. Their self worth is
dren. So far this year, the shelter is serving 11 families with 14 adults and 21 children, 17 of which are in school.
"We have families and indi-
big situation. With information about the issue up front rather than waiting until the end of the year would help them navigate potentially dangerous situations better, she added.
The main goals of the week were to increase awareness and educate the campus about sexual assault. Each day this week, volunteers had a table on Wescoe Beach set up where students could take a pledge to hold others accountable for their actions and try to put an end to sexual assault.
Students could also decorate bandanas in honor of a victim of sexual assault and learn more about what sexual assault is and what resources are available for assistance with a different
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Today, volunteers will discuss the importance of bystander intervention. The GaDuGi SafeCenter will also host two events over the weekend to raise awareness and money to prevent sexual assault.
"We want to make sure they know how they can help and how they can be an advocate," said Heath. "And we want them to know its not just a women's issue. We want to make it okay for men on this campus to be able to talk about it seriously and try to help prevent it on our campus."
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