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Show DAILY UTAH CHRONICLE C4 Learn a universal language Music majors develop lifelong skills for oilfields I would like to take this opportunity to introduce myself. I'm new here in Salt Lake City. I have traveled the world as a bass player, and most of the time I have had my skis with me. In fact, I have played a concert and watched a sunset in every state of the lower 48. It is not uncommon in my home state of Position New Mexico for me to play a Mozart opera and shred fresh powpow in the same day. This is why the U is my new home. In life's journey voice, and maybe you have it is important to have what done an amazing job and makes you tick at your have already found it. I can, fingertips. Both music and however, help you find a skiing have saved my life path in your undergraduate and so, as it is in the Kung years that will put you ahead Fu tradition, I now owe my of the rest, no matter what allegiance to them. your ultimate career goals If you have read this far, might be. 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There is so habits during childhood and little time devoted to teaching life skills in junior high and adolescence only develop into poor eating habits during high school that the subject of health and maintaining it adulthood. In Utah, one in five adults is obese, and more seems to lose importance. than 36,000 teenagers are As most of us know, college overweight or at risk. life is stressful. With all the These statistics don't obligations and time cornchange after high school; they mitments, it is easy to feel carry over to the college-stuburned out. To learn how dent demographic. A recent to combat exhaustion and study at Cornell University maximize your education, showed that most college stu- you must explore yourself dents were not satisfied with and how your body functions. their weight. I highly doubt Jones recommends taking a that these attitudes were nutrition class. Learning how brought on by the simple to keep your body healthy freshman 15. is beneficial. Many students "It's naive to point the have said it was the most finger at school lunch alone valuable course they took at because they are a customerthe U. based institution," said Other efforts have been Rachel Jones, a professor of made toward improving Utah nutrition. "They measure waistlines. In 2006, then-Gov. waste to see what kids do and Jon Huntsman introduced don't eat, then go by demand "Tipping the Scales Toward like any other industry in a Healthier Population: The America." Utah Blueprint to Promote These are products that Healthy Weight for Children, children are raised on from Youth, and Adults." toddler-age. They are accusInspired by the U.S. Surtomed to the processed flavor. geon General's statement that To bring in healthier food, "Obesity is the single greatest you must bring in an educapublic health threat to the tional component as well. United States," the blueprint Even as adults, if we don't contains strategies for all setunderstand why we should tings of life: families, schools, be eating one food instead communities, work sites, of another, we won't ever health care, media and the choose the correct diet. government. Public school lunches would Education about one's be a good place to introduce own health and well-being the change and education our is priceless. Because of the state needs. extensive effort this educaAlthough it is difficult, it is tion takes, cutting the school never too late to learn healthy lunch budget won't do Utah habits. Jones expressed her any good in the long run. It is pride in students at the U. crucial to remember that you "They have a lot of motiare what you eat. As students, vation and drive to change we cannot afford to eat cheap things for the better," she and processed food. Don't said. be without concern for your There is a student-driven body and what you put in it. farmers market on campus Until we all have the throughout the Fall, Spring knowledge we need to stay and Summer semesters. Simi- healthy, the issue of nutrilarly, because students have tional education must be kept taken initiative to speak out, vocal. the Residence Hall cafeteria letters@ changed its meal options. chronicle.utah.edu |