Input Needed: What do you remember about your university’s attitude toward weight and health?
LizBR
Posted on October 18, 2013
I’ve been thinking a lot this semester about the prevalence of the words “freshman fifteen” on college campuses. I remember the phrase from my freshman year at Taylor University in 2001, and it seemed to be mentioned no less frequently when I taught at the University of New Hampshire in 2010 and 2011. I still hear it now at my current university. In some recent conversations about this idea, I remembered something about my time at Taylor. We had a course there called Fit for Life. It was supposed to teach us important skills about health and fitness, but what I remember are record keeping charts for our physical activity, countless fitness tests, weigh ins, BMI analyses, and a lot of other stuff that…
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