Welcome Everyone to What the Health Online Fall 2008!

 My staff and I are ready to bring you tips, new alerts, and topics covering weekly workouts, healthy on-the-go snacks, world health issues, stress, sexual health, and news and information on courses that will make your life as a college student a little less stressful and healthier!
My beat bloggers will keep you updated daily, and [...]

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Finals Week Munchies: An Eat Healthy Recipe triple-header

It’s that dreaded time of year: the harsh reality of exams has crept up on all of us now that our wonderful Mayfest vacation is over. Maybe we’re anxious about graduation or dreading a summer break without our homies, but we are increasing the partying at a rate that rivals our study sessions. All that beer and greasy pizza will leave you feeling heavy and lethargic — no mood for studying. Therefore, we’ve assembled the perfect snacks to boost your energy and leave you feeling healthy, yet satisfied.

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It’s a Map

Mapmyfitness.com offers map-routing for walkers, runners, swimmers, bikers, and hikers. You log onto the site, type in your starting location and, with a series of clicks, draw your route on a map.

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Break Your Bad Habits

I am somewhat of a beauty junkie, so I try to stay up-to-date with the new beauty products, trends, and articles. After reading Glam.com’s Break Your Beauty Habits by India Jewel Jackson, I realized there are other bad habits college students struggle with besides the French fries and pizza at the dining hall and the continuous struggle to manage stress. Here are my own five tips to keep you fresh, clean, and healthy:

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The Spring 2008 issue

Our Spring 2008 issue is here!
Just click the Departments menu to your left to explore student-written articles on how YOU can get well, eat smart, feel great, and more!

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Top 10 places to hike within an hour from Syracuse

By Kat Kondracki
1. Green Lakes State Park — Gratify outdoor desires with 10 miles of upland forest trails surrounding two of upstate New York’s glacial lakes. Both Green and Round lakes are meromictic lakes, meaning there is no surface and bottom season mixing, providing breathtaking views and home to many ancient plant and animal species.
2. [...]

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The Scoop on Sperm Donation

by Naomi Pearson // Photography by Michelle Bersani
1. Donors must not ejaculate for 2-3 days before their scheduled donation. This can affect the
donor’s sex life, by curtailing it or putting it on a schedule.
2. Donors may not participate in multiple programs—just one in their lifetime. This reduces the probability of consanguinity—meaning the chance that biological [...]

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Meat No More

Your body is craving meat and potatoes but there’s no way in hell you’re cooking it. Healthy solutions to carniphobia.
By Elizabeth Narins
Against my better judgment, I recently bought a pack of raw chicken cutlets. Despite my intentions to pop the poultry on the Foreman, I let them sit in my fridge for about a week [...]

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Eat Healthy Recipe: Pasta (De)Light

By Adria Saracino
Confession: we at “What the Health” are total carbivores. If you are like us, the notion of limiting your intake of carbohydrates seems impossible. However, by eating in moderation and making smart choices, there’s no need to regret eating carbs. Our healthy pasta recipe, which substitutes regular pasta for whole-wheat, will leave [...]

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Holistic Healing

Pills and powders aren’t the only remedies for what ails you.
By Katie Papo
Plenty of students rely on medications like Tylenol or Prilosec to chemically alter their ills, but that doesn’t mean they are the only answers. Holistic healing methods are all-natural and strike a balance between your body, mind, emotions, and spirit. You don’t have [...]

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The Dog Ate My Gym Shorts

Shed your excuses and a few extra pounds with these five motivators to get you up and moving
By Katie Papo
Working out isn’t so bad once you’re already doing it, but it’s the “getting there” part that usually makes us choose (insert your favorite sedentary activity here) over exercise. But, we also tend to forget [...]

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Once you pop…

…you can’t stop. Nor should you have to. Satisfy your cravings without blowing a day’s worth of calories on greasy fries and chips.
By Elizabeth Narins
There’s nothing inherently wrong with potatoes. It’s the way they’re brutally butchered that raises issue: skinned alive, cut and quartered. Drowned in boiling, bubbling fat that sears their skin on [...]

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The Frappe Trap

Don’t let your morning pick-me-up weigh you down.
By Jackie Saunders
Beware! Alcohol isn’t the only damaging drink on college campuses. Grab a Jamaican Jammer from Freshëns Smoöthies and you gulp down 355 calories and 69 grams of sugar. Then there are those sinful Starbucks Frappuccinos — a grande Mocha Frappe has 380 calories, 130 from fat, [...]

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Eat Healthy Recipe: Waldorf burger

By Adria Saracino
Vegetarians rejoice: here is a healthy recipe especially for you. This salad burger is a sure thing for all the necessary vitamins and minerals you need for a healthy lifestyle. Boca burgers, a meatless, soy-based hamburger, are a great source of protein, despite what many skeptical carnivores think. A beef hamburger consists of [...]

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Dress to De-Stress

By Shavon S. Greene
After a long day of last-minute papers, never-ending meetings, and non-stop lectures, I find myself trying to decompress at a computer cluster or study lounge. The college life is not so glamorous, huh? Maybe some of my clothes aren’t glam either, but they work great to minimize my stress. The following fashions [...]

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