ew with Craig Key, Sheila Clemmins, and a poll of fifteen freshmen girls took place. A conceivable solution to this problem is one that is rather intricate. It involves keeping a record of one's dietary habits and one's exercise regime. Then by setting goals and limits, one would fill in a daily summary of their doings. This isn't the only solution, but it may just be the best. With the information concluded from interviews and polls, this solution was arrived at and will provide a better insight on how a freshmen girl at the University of LaCrosse can keep off the "freshmen fifteen".
             Why has the problem of freshmen girls gaining weight their first year of college developed? The change from going to one diet to another is basically is what is the cause of it. In high school students are more active and have much less time to eat. When they do get a snack, it is something small and any calories are burned off rather quickly. Their parents prepare big meals and in most households the food is well balanced and generally healthy. Out of the fifteen freshmen girls polled, seventy three percent of the subjects agreed that their parents cooked better food than offered in the campus dining facilities such as Whitney's, Chars, Blimpies, the Galley and the Cellar. In contrast to this statement, sixty seven percent said that eat better at college than at home. The reasoning given by the subjects is that they eat less at college, so they eat better here. When asked what types of foods eaten, they say things like pizza, hamburgers, French fries and chips. So th!
             e foods they are eating are not exactly healthy. They said that the foods at Whitney are not that great and the ones that taste good are high in cholesterol, fat and salt. There has to be a way one can eat healthy at Whitney's. According to Craig Key, the head director of the Whitney Center, Whitney's does not add extra salt, calo...