STAYING HEALTHY
	It's a whole new world... college... especially if you're living away from home!  You're away from your parents and life can be on your terms (for the most part).  You can eat what you want, drink what you want, stay up and sleep as late as you want!  It's all good. Here are a few college student resources you can use to make sure you stay healthy while you're away from home (and your parents)! No one's cooking for me now. What should you eat to stay healthy? What vitamins should you take so you don't get sick? How skinny are you? Are you at risk for anorexia nervosa? Do you need to think about your food? Keeping my head on straight. Hows your mental health? Do you have a healthy mind? Are you managing your stress? Check your score on how much you’re drinking Will you get A's if you drink and do drugs? Your trip to the student health center. If you live in the dorms could you get Meningococcal Disease? Are you next? Between 20 and 25% of college students are or have been infected with an STD Sex and your choices. How real is date rape? What is Dating Violence?

The Lowdown on...

• How fat can you get your freshman year?
  
  Did you know the average freshmen gained an average of 4.2 pounds during the first 12 weeks of college? This rate of weight gain is almost 11 times more than the weekly weight gain expected in 17- and 18-year-olds and almost 20 times more than the average weight gain of an American adult. (Cornell University)
• What's a few drinks going to hurt?
  
  Students aged 18 to 24 contributes to an estimated 1,700 student deaths, 599,000 injuries, and 97,000 cases of sexual assault or date rape each year. (NIAAA)
• Anorexia nervosa? Is it still a problem?
  
  An estimated 1 of every 100 college-aged women have anorexia nervosa, a psychiatric disease with serious medical complications. (Advanced Nutrition and Human Metabolism, 4th ed.pp.546-547.).