Published on Sunday, September 16, 2007
By Pasadena Star Staff Writer
It's your first year at college, and with all the potentially scary things to face (communal bathrooms, Greek-life recruiters, a soap-phobic roommate), eating should be the last thing you fear.
But the threat of the infamous Freshman 15 - the 15 pounds students are said to gain in their first year of college - has loomed over many an incoming freshman class.
The reality?
"A full third of students do not gain any weight at all," says Patrice Barber, Trojan Hospitality Nutritionist at USC. "The two-thirds that do, the average weight gain is nowhere near the legendary and mythic Freshman 15."
Great! So there's nothing to worry about, right?
Not quite, according to Ellen Bauersfeld, staff dietitian at the Quad Student Health Center at California State University, Northridge. "There are big changes that happen (that can affect weight and health) when people go to college," she says
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