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"Healthy eating is usually designated by fruit and vegetable consumption, and students aren't the only group who consume small amounts," Recder said. "Americans are getting better in this area, but the No. vegetable that Americans report eating is a potato, and that is usually in the form of french fries. We need to pay attention to the way food is prepared as well," she continued. However, before getting concerned about how food is prepared, it's necessary to know what kinds of foods provide the most nutrition. The public school system very thoroughly teaches every child the virtues of the four food groups...or at least they used to. Then some sort of trianglepyramid came along. Pretty soon, cook books and miracle diets hit the shelves. Now it seems like everyday a new food has been found to cause cancer or obesity. How is a busy student expected to keep up with it all? "Healthy eating doesn't have to be confusing. The Food Guide Pyramid can be really useful because it shows you the types of choices you have and that you can have all of those foods at every meaL" Reeder said. CARRIE ANDREW Chronicle Feature Writer Monday morning rolls around and you wake up in a panic as you realize you've hit the snooze button a few too many times. Now you've got only lo minutes before y our 7:30 a.m. class starts. You jump out of bed, dress in yesterday's blue jeans, run a brush through your hair, another over your teeth and rush out the door to catch the bus. Without a second thought, you skipped breakfast and denied your body important nutrients necessary to keep it running all day. You probably won't even realize it until your stomach starts rumbling sometime in the middle of a History 101 lecture. At that point, you'll probably grab something with little nutritional value from a vending machine just to satisfy those rumblings within. That is a typical student scenario. Unfortunately, as students attempt to cultivate their own intellectual appetite, other health factors fall by the wayside. "Everything has to do with time. I don't have the time, I don't have the patience, I don't have the money to eat healthy, and I hate vegetables," said Sarah Noyes, a student Noyes lives in student housing in an apartment with a fully equipped kitchen. This allows her to eat the recommended three meals a day. Her breakfast is usually cereal or a Nutrigrain bar Lunch might be spaghetti or lasagna. "I eat pasta every day," Noyes explained. For dinner, she said, "When I have time, basically it's Top Ramcn or macaroni and cheese. Hamburger Helper is still just as disgusting no matter how much extra seasoning and cheese you add." A busy schedule and lack of time aren't the only things keeping Noyes from a nutritious diet "It's expensive to cook from scratch. When I r, 1 pre-nursi- high-prote- BY ED CANTY 2 3 r"" 4 ii Ti p Ti r"" Ti 20 19 1 10 175 1 12 21 'rip 2? 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