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...food each year. The Resource Efficiency Program valiantly attempts to convince students to minimize their food waste, but in the end, students have little motivation to comply. Why shouldn’t we pile up three heaping plates of food, even if we don’t intend to eat most of it? After all, it might avoid the trouble of going back for seconds...
...Perhaps most importantly, HUDS will have to be responsive to student needs to earn their business. This means that they will have to operate at the hours that are convenient to students. A 2005 Undergraduate Council survey found that 87 percent of students would prefer to eat dinner after 7:15 p.m. (the current closing time of River Houses) at least five days a week. If HUDS had to compete for student business, it would almost certainly stay open till 8:30 or 9:00 p.m. to draw late-dining residents. Similarly, a HUDS responsive to student tastes would...
...eat Mexican food or American when you're in Mexico...
...warned about the mercury, dioxins and PCBs that they might be consuming with their meal. But a study from the Harvard School of Public Health showed that while those contaminants pose a danger, particularly for women of childbearing age, for most people the benefits of fish outweigh the risks. Eat modest servings of fish each week--particularly salmon and bluefish--and you may reduce your risk of coronary heart disease 36%. Elsewhere, researchers at Louisiana State University reported that omega-3s can help protect cells in the retina, slowing the damage caused by such blinding diseases as retinitis pigmentosa...
...epidemic shows no sign of abatement; in fact, it's spreading. The Chinese government reports that 60 million Chinese people are overweight--in a country that never had that problem before. The culprit: prosperity, which permits Chinese people to eat more fats and junk food, fewer grains and vegetables. In short, they can now eat just as irresponsibly as Americans. High blood pressure and diabetes are also up. In the U.S., the epicenter of the problem, a study in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology offered the disturbing news that heart problems can be seen in obese teens...