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Show Campus News Page 2 Monday, Sept. 12, 2011 College of Ag hosts fair to promote healthy lifestyles BY CHRIS LEE news senior writer USU STUDENT ANDREW DEVLIN does jumping jacks with a harness that simulates 20 pounds of body fat at the "i am healthy Health Expo." CURTIS RIPPLINGER photo The College of Agriculture held a health expo called "i am healthy" in the Taggart Student Center, Friday. The expo was an installment of Ag Month. The expo was designed to promote healthy lifestyles, Agriculture Council Activities Chairman Brian Hadfield said. The program was made to "help people open their eyes to what is healthy, and what can help them to promote a healthier lifestyle among the students and faculty that were involved," Hadfield said. College of Agriculture Academic Senator Jarvis Pace said he wants the health expo to become a tradition at USU. "It's something that we did last year, and it was very well received. We liked the partnership that we've had with the Wellness Center and the Be Well program," Pace said. The International Lounge in the TSC was filled with booths during the expo, sponsored by various organizations including: the Employee Wellness Center, the Dietetic Student Association, Pre-SOMA (Student Osteopathic Medical Association), and the Office of Student Sustainability. The Employee Wellness Center had a booth for testing various aspects of students' bodies. "They asked us to come and do some screenings. We have blood pressure screenings, body fat, body mass index (BMI) and grip strength. We're here representing Employee Wellness, but I really want to encourage wellness across campus, not just for employees, but students as well," Wellness Coordinator Dayna Barrett said. Barrett and and other members of the Employee Wellness staff let students use a hand-held dynamometer to test their grip strength, a bioelectrical impedance analysis to check their BMI and body fat percentages, and a blood pressure cuff to check blood pressure. Barrett said a good blood pressure is at or below 120/80. "I have seen students that have high blood pressure, and they didn't know it," Barrett said. "You look at somebody and they may look healthy, but inside their heart may be working very hard to pump that blood through the rest of that body. Looks can be very deceiving." The Employee Wellness Center also had models of fat at their booth. They had several "fat vests" ranging from one pound to 20 pounds for students to wear while doing push-ups. "One pound doesn't sound like much, five pounds doesn't sound like much, but over time gaining one or five pounds in a year — that adds up — especially if you're a young 18-year-old college student," Barrett said. The Dietetic Student Association asked students to guess how much sugar was in some common food items. President of the Dietetic Student Association Cami Jo Satterthwaite said, "With our booth today, we are doing sugar awareness to be aware of how much sugar you are actually consuming, especially in processed foods. Students need to realize how much is added in order to make these products shelf stable." Satterthwaite and other members of the Dietetic Student Association had students pick a food product from the table and guess how many teaspoons of sugar were in that product, by scooping teaspoons of sugar into a bowl. Satterthwaite said many students were surprised to find out that one 20-ounce bottle of Dr Pepper had 17 teaspoons of sugar. President of Pre-SOMA Braden Brklacich said his organization was there to help students learn about osteopathic medicine, which combines traditional medicine with a holistic approach. "Their approach is looking at the body as a whole. Mind, spirit and body — everything connected. It's also to help students here learn more about the osteopathic field — support physicians that are now in medical school or practicing here in the community," Brklacich said. Sustainability intern Brad Armstrong represented the Office of Student Sustainability at the expo. Its booth encouraged students to go green. "The goal is to improve the sustainability here on campus, to make this campus greener and more environmentally friendly, and to encourage students to change their lifestyle enough to live healthier, and live more sustainably," Armstrong said. Armstrong said the easiest way for students to live more sustainably would be to drive less and recycle more. The expo also had unmanned booths with fliers containing information about whole grains, beans and other food groups. The College of Agriculture also had a booth selling T-shirts, and Dining Services had a table of wholewheat bread for students to eat. - chris.w.lee@aggiemad.usu.edu ►From Page 1 Faculty shares its opinions of 9/11 "We did go crazy as a result of 9/11. We made some emotional — understandable, but emotional — mistakes that we're still paying for and still trying to adjust to," he said. John Carman, professor from the department of agriculture, said he does not have the same political background as Sharp and Lyons. What he does have though, is a firsthand account of being in Manhattan on Sept. 11. In a letter to his son, who was serving an LDS mission, Carman wrote of his experience just after getting into a taxi. "Moments later the cab rocked sideways and shook from the compression wave of the first plane exploding inside the North Tower. The cab driver assured me it was just construction, but the workers were staring at the Towers. I jerked to look through the back window and saw the flame-filled gash in the tower. It appeared to span three floors. My immediate thought: 200 to 300 people instantly vaporized." "This symbolized that we are vulnerable," he said. He described many of his encounters of traveling abroad, explaining that before 9/11 there was minimal airport security, but then as he landed in other countries, airports would be fully militarized. It was these countries who had experienced terrorism before, he said. Now Americans felt susceptible, they were much more cautious, he added. Sharp echoed this sentiment by citing an article he recently read, which said there are currently twice as many security guards in the country as there were 10 years ago. He gave the example that back then, no one considered guards necessary at golf courses. "I think there's a lot more suspicion," Dustin Evans, a junior majoring in finance said. "You just worry about, 'Oh, what if this were to happen?' There's just a whole lot more worry and stress than I remember." On his way home from New York City, Carman visited a school in Princeton, N.J., where 17 children lost a parent in the attacks, and five were ly completeorphaned. "That's just one of hundreds of bedroom communities," he said, trying to relate the intimacy of the tragedy in that part of the country. He said for much of Sept. 11, military planes would fly overhead, causing terrified people to run away in fear of another attack. "People were on edge and weren't sure if the attacks were over or not," Carman said. Sharp and Lyons both discussed many of the fallouts of 9/11. One obvious result to both of them was the War on Terror, particularly the part of that war taking place in Iraq. "The global War on Terror was an endless war," Sharp said. "You cannot eliminate terror, it's going to be there. Most of the world lives in the shadow of some form of violence, all the time. So, if you have a global War on Terror, you are saying the state of war is the new normal, and we will never escape that." Lyons said the costs of these wars are wastes, which have significantly encouraged the current recession. Sharp maintained some fear of how the wars will end. He said neither political party wants to be the party to lose Iraq, but neither can give a reasonable plan of how to win the war. However, Sharp did give what he called a "silver lining." "By our work in the Middle East, particularly in Iraq, we upset the status quo there," he said. "And to a large extent, we ended up discrediting, in Arab eyes, Islamic fundamentalism — Islamic radicalism." He also noted that it has greatly opened Americans' eyes to the world and to foreign ways of life. "War is God's way of teaching Americans geography," he said. Nick Manning, a sophomore studying music education, resonated this message, saying, "I think for me, I have a wider world view. Probably more significantly, I really appreciate when things work well, when you have a safe plane ride, when you have security in your country; I really appreciate that more than I ever would have." PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA (above), First Lady Michelle Obama, former President George W. Bush and former First Lady Laura Bush observe a moment of silence at the 9/11 Memorial in New York, Sunday. ROBERT PERAZA, (below) who lost his son Robert David Peraza in the attacks at the World Trade Center, pauses at his son's name at the North Pool of the 9/11 Memorial before the 10th anniversary ceremony at the site, Sunday. AP photos - bracken_allen@yahoo.com ► 3 Read a letter from a professor who witnessed 9/11 at www.utahstatesman.com . When the girl of your dreams... Becomes the LOVE of your life! 41 North Main Logan Utah (435) 753-4870 |