Daily Titan Fitness and Wellness Guide, Jan. 26, 2015

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In the stressful life of a college student, a trip to the doctor’s office at some point is highly likely. Cal State Fullerton provides students with certain health care ser-vices—for a price—so why not take advantage of it?

These resources are available in the Student Health and Counseling Cen-ter. The aforementioned price is tacked onto each student’s tuition, so if he or she is currently enrolled at the school, the services are available.

“This fee provides basic medical and counseling ser-vices to students, making services at SHCC either free

or at a significantly reduced cost,” said Narayana Darst, coordinator of Health Edu-cation and Promotion.

Along with the basic medical needs and confiden-tial psychological counsel-ing, other services include reproductive health services, acupuncture, chiropractic and physical therapy.

There is no limit to how many times a student can go in for medical needs, but each student is allowed 10 sessions of counseling a year. The acupuncture costs $5 per visit and appoint-ments can be made on Fri-days between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. Chiropractic visits are also $5 per visit and ap-pointments are available Mondays and Thursdays between 10:30 a.m. and 4 p.m.

Acupuncture may be an amenity that students may not know about because it

is not really a traditional form of pain relief, but it is an alternative to tradition-al methods for students that are open to trying anything to feel better.

This method is said to treat a wide range of symp-toms including pain, ar-thritis, anxiety and even addiction. Acupuncture is recognized by the World Health Organization as be-ing effective in treating these conditions, and at only $5 a session, students have the opportunity to utilize this method at a very rea-sonable price.

“Most students are un-aware of the breadth of services provided,” Darst said. She recommends that students look through the Health Center’s website to find the service they’re looking for.

Students that are in need of health insurance may also

receive coverage through Covered California. Open enrollment started Nov. 15th, 2014 and ends Feb. 15. Students can receive pub-lic insurance or discounted

private insurance thanks to the CSU Health Insurance Education Project.

Through these methods, CSUF students have an am-ple amount of health care

options at their fingertips. With money becoming more tight for just about every-body, taking advantage of every dime spent on tuition is a must.

Whether it’s dropping some extra pounds, per-forming better in sports or building strength, adding some weight to a workout can go a long way.

It may be instinctual to think that in order to see re-sults, workouts need to be long, but that is not neces-sarily true, said Cal State Fullerton’s Director of Strength and Conditioning Isaac Salazar.

“Weight training is really

effective because you can get a lot of muscle recruit-ment and activity,” Sala-zar said. “You don’t have to crush yourself on the track for two hours, you can get a lot out of a 30-minute high intensity resistance training group.”

Weight training puts the body in a fat burning state, Salazar said. The result of weight training is losing unwanted fat and gaining lean tissue.

He normally starts begin-ners with a repetition win-dow, good technique and a repetition goal. The weight involved in the workout is dependent on how the be-ginner handles the repeti-tion goal.

If the beginner can’t reach the goal in the allot-ted amount of time, then the repetition goal may be too high. However, if he or she is easily surpassing the rep goal, then the goal may be a little low.

A leaner physique comes from working out with sub-maximal loads, which are loads beneath the maxi-mum weight a person can lift.

“When you use submax-imal loads your getting a physical change in the muscle, you’re getting it to grow or your getting a lot of hormonal responses to get leaner,” Salazar said.

Submaximal intensity can be from 60-80 percent

of whatever the maximum load would be for that given exercise.

On the other spectrum, using closer to maximum loads and longer resting pe-riods will help with perfor-mance or strength.

These kinds of workouts help create a better oppor-tunity for motor unit activa-tion that will help a person jump higher and run faster, Salazar said.

A workout should adapt to the results a person is looking for.

“When you’re thinking about getting the best bang for your buck you want to pick an exercise selection that will get a lot of muscle activity or recruitment and

we call those multi joint exercises, they would be lunges, rowing, dumbbell movements or free-weight movements,” Salazar said.

Any avenue someone chooses is great and weight training is only one tool available from a sea of pos-sibilities, Salazar said.

Getting health care on-campus

More weight makes workouts more efficient

Students can recieve a variety of services at the Student Health and Resource Center. Medical needs as well as counseling sessions are availiable free of charge for all CSUF students.

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Fish genes in strawber-ries and spider DNA in goat’s milk. It’s not sci-ence fiction, it’s what you’re eating.

Genetically modified or-ganisms, or GMOs, are the result of forcing the genes of one species into an un-related species. People usu-ally get this confused with cross breeding－think Men-del and his pea plants.

Cross-breeding has been around for hundreds of

years, while GMO crops are a new invention, sprout-ing up only a couple of de-cades ago.

The safety of GMOs has not been determined in the long run. With such uncer-tainty, it is better to know about them than to be kept in the dark.

GMOs compose near-ly everything we consume, making up about 89 percent of corn crops, 91 percent of cotton crops and 94 percent of soy crops in the U.S., ac-cording to the United States Department of Agriculture. It also found that GMOs make up about 80 percent of processed foods.

Avoiding GMOs on cam-pus is made even more dif-ficult since the majority of

food offered for purchase is fast food. However, there are a few ways to avoid them.

Shopping at local farm-ers markets and at grocery stores to keep an eye out for the Non-GMO Project label is a good way to start.

Home-grown foods are another great way to avoid GMOs. In California, the weather allows for this nearly year-round. Start small with something like tomatoes, then move to-wards vegetables like lettuce.

The best possible thing to do is to stay informed about GMOs. Netflix cur-rently has a few documen-taries on them.

Take a deep breath in. Ex-hale. Draw your heart for-ward. Namaste.

With the variety of yoga styles around today like Indo Board yoga and stand-up paddleboard yoga, there are an abundance of ways to seek enlightenment. Hot yoga is one of the many styles of yoga that students have been pursuing. How-ever, the real question is whether a fellow yogi is merely dripping in sweat or actually breaking a sweat while practicing hot yoga.

“It’s a very intense ex-perience and it depends on each person and what their goal is,” Cal State Fullerton

Hatha Yoga Professor Sa-mantha Gallo said. “Some people prefer heat in general and other people who prefer going to the mountains and snowboarding may not be as interested in something like that.”

The most common form of hot yoga, Bikram yoga, is a type of yoga practiced in a room heated to 105 degrees Fahrenheit with a humidi-ty of 40 percent. The class runs for 90 minutes and consists of the same series of 26 postures.

So why the heat? Accord-ing to Bikram Yoga’s offi-cial website, a warm body is a flexible body and the heat helps cleanse the body from waste products. It helps to flush out toxins in the body through the skin. However, there is little to no scientif-ic research conducted on whether or not this is true.

Gallo, who has been

teaching yoga at CSUF since 2007, compared the flexibility differences be-tween a bikram hot yoga class and an ashtanga yoga class for her master thesis. Both classes were 90 min-utes long and in the end, both were equally effective in producing flexibility in the hamstrings.

“Bikram Choudhury be-lieves that putting bodies in a 105 degree tempera-ture room was going to help with more of the detoxing effects in addition to the postures and the stretches,” Gallo said. “I’m not sure on the research, whether or not there’s more calories burned because of the heated envi-ronment, but there are a va-riety of practices that are comfortable to the type of intensity or the sweat pro-duction that somebody can get.”

Sweat production,

Gallo said, is not necessar-ily a measure of burning calories and in a study con-ducted by the Department of Health and Exercise Science at Colorado State Univer-sity, they found the amount of calories burned while practicing yoga in a 105 de-gree room were equivalent to those of people walking briskly.

However, this should not lead students interest-ed in practicing hot yoga astray, considering the ben-efits yoga does offer like increased muscle strength and tone, improved respi-ration, energy, vitality and flexibility, according to the American Osteopathic Association.

“You definitely burn cal-ories in the (yoga) practice.

It’s not going to be as much as a cardiovascular expe-rience, but it’s definitely a very holistic practice. It doesn’t necessarily stand on its own in terms of heart health, but it is something that can be a life-long prac-tice and can keep somebody healthy, happy and wise,” Gallo said.

Xiomara Solis, a 22-year-old anthropology major at CSUF, said she enjoys prac-ticing yoga because of how much healthier her body feels afterwards.

“I like the way that it helps me sleep better at night. It helps ease my stress and it greatly improved my posture,” Solis said.

“There’s a lot more to yoga than the Americanized version that we practice, so I

mostly focus on it as a way of mindfulness like pay-ing attention to what you’re doing in the class and then afterward just being more aware of your body,” Solis said.

“It’s just a warmer room so whatever you’re losing is just sweat, but it kind of intensifies all the positions you have to get into when it’s that hot,” Solis said. “I notice that you’re paying more attention because it’s so hot and you’re just con-centrating on trying to get it right.”

Gallo suggests Bikram hot yoga to those who en-joy a heated environ-ment, but recommends the ashtanga yoga style for those who want a more in-tense workout.

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A large portion of my life has revolved around get-ting picked on. My name, of course, lends itself to teasing; Nicknames like “Rudy fruity,” “Chinchilli,” and, naturally, “Ch-ch-ch chia” are par for the course.

However, the most common insults were those regarding my weight. I was, for all intents and purposes, the fat kid. That is until four years ago, when I decided to become a lean, mean, gym-going machine.

Like many of life’s bad memories, the comments about my weight started in middle school. This is the time when boys start having to show their toughness, and

what better way to do that than to pick on the fat kid?

For the most part, I laughed off the insults, acting like ev-erything was okay. Eventually, though, I decided that enough was enough and took the bold step of stepping onto the scale. My prediction for my weight was, “Probably around 200 pounds.” What the scale dis-played was shocking. “Two-hundred-thirty-eight,” it read. I was only 5-feet-7-inches tall at the time.

I was seized by a moment of clarity and thought, “I’m go-ing to die.” So I put down the cookies and cake. Initially, I would find myself reaching for a soda or a bag of chips and I literally had to retract my hand mid-reach.

Thankfully, I willed myself toward healthy eating. Grilled chicken and salad became sta-ples of my diet. I started run-ning on the treadmill in my garage. I started running three miles in 20 minutes, whereas

before I ran one mile in 15. Next up was the gym. I was

initially scared to go in, and I found it embarrassing to be surrounded by so many fit people. Thankfully I found a gym buddy with whom I could lift weights, and I also realized that most of the peo-ple at the gym were actually pretty friendly and helpful.

These days my weight usu-ally fluctuates between 165 and 175 pounds. I’m still quite a bit away from the 140 pounds I wish to weigh. Over the past few months, two torn ACL’s, a torn me-niscus and a fractured knee-cap have prevented me from working out and going to the gym as much as I would like. There are days where I look in the mirror, almost in dis-gust, thinking, “Man, I want those sixpack abs and bulg-ing biceps. I want the Arnold Schwarzenegger back and pec combo.”

Sometimes I have to talk

myself into walking out the door in the morning. How-ever, I’m also able to look back at how far I’ve really come. There’s still a way to go, but I truly feel a lot bet-ter about myself now.

To those who are think-ing about losing weight, or to those who have al-ready given up on their new year’s resolution, I encour-age you to not quit. The fact is, weight loss is just as difficult mentally as it is physically.

Failure is bound to hap-pen; it’s an almost ev-er-present companion. You may fall flat on your face time and time again, but as long as you’re willing to pick yourself up, dust your-self off and put forth your best effort the next day, you will make it eventual-ly. The important thing to remember is that failure to-day does not have to equal failure tomorrow.



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Weight Loss Success Stories

As a new school year be-gins, students want to set new goals for themselves—person-al and academic.

This was the same for me at the beginning of my junior year here at CSUF, but I need-ed to make a huge change in my life—that change being my weight.

One morning before a rou-tine check up with my doctor, I woke up and stared at my-self in the mirror. I began to tear up with a feeling of hate, sadness and disappointment in myself after realizing I let my-self go.

I was 5 feet tall, weighing 180 pounds. After my doctor told me I was obese at 23, I couldn’t bare to look at myself the same way.

The drive home from Or-ange was a long one with remembrances of my 100 pound, lean soccer body I had in high school and I wondered, “What happened?”

I woke up the follow-ing morning after having an epiphany to change my lifestyle.

I went to the local gym to figure out what components I needed to reach my fitness goals.

At this gym, I met my life savior, my trainer and now close friend, Nikki Dao. She changed my life and showed me fitness as a priority.

We went over the basics—what were my fitness goals, what was my ideal weight and a five day workout routine that I would be able to stick to with a hectic schedule.

During our first initial meet-ings, I was exhausted from ba-sic exercises. I was frustrated with myself for letting myself get so out of shape.

Dao reassured me that be-cause it took so many years to put on the weight, it will take almost the same amount of time to lose it.

After I lost my first 10 pounds, we came up with a strict meal plan full of protein, substitutes for the food items that were essential to my diet and added a gallon of water a day.

I struggled with the diet change at the beginning. I

would constantly look at the clock to schedule when my next meal was.

Friday’s “date night” con-sisted of me in the gym lift-ing weights and sweating on the stairmaster. I had given up eating out, drinking alcohol and sacrificed temptation of going out to the bars with my friends.

I was dedicated to reach-ing my goal and wasn’t go-ing to let those sacrifices be a distraction.

About four months into the routine we had planned, I was seeing some serious results.

My clothes got looser, my

stamina began to strengthen and I added more weight to my routines.

I felt more confident about myself walking into a room, which ultimately made me feel like nothing was impossible.

I have managed to lose 45 pounds, keep the weight off and maintain my healthy eat-ing habits.

I now stand confidently at 5 feet tall weighing 135 pounds. I am happier than I could have ever been, all thanks to one woman who didn’t want to give up on me and my dedication to fitness.

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Practicing yoga is the sweet-est selfish thing a person can do.

Saliam Barillas, a 24-year-old kinesiology graduate cur-rently working on his master’s degree and teaching drop-in yoga classes at the Student Recreation Center on campus, believes that yoga is a means of unification within oneself.

“Yoga is a way to unite the mind, body and soul,”

Barillas said. It is very personal to each

practicing individual and does not have the intention of competitiveness.

“Yoga isn’t about compar-ing yourself to the person next to you,” said Marissa Herr, ki-nesiology major and founder of Cal State Fullerton’s Yoga club. “The beautiful thing is that everyone is on their own very different and personal journey.”

Americans often confuse yoga for a religion, and al-though it is often connected to a form of spirituality, it does not always have to be.

For some, the practice is purely physical. For others, its

entirety is within the mind. “Oftentimes, classes held at

gyms are focused primarily on the physical aspects of yoga and studio classes oftentimes incorporate more spiritual and philosophical aspects,” Herr said.

Practicing yoga has many benefits, whether someone is focusing on the physical or spiritual aspects of yoga.

Some of the physical bene-fits of yoga include increased flexibility, weight loss, in-creased muscle strength and improved circulatory health, according to the American Os-teopathic Association.

Barillas adds that yoga helps immensely with the reduction

of stress, which results in the reduction of various health concerns, such as diabetes.

In regards to the spiritual as-pect, Herr feels that getting on a yoga mat is a very personal, positive experience.

“Yoga encourages us to ac-cept where we are at today,” Herr said. “It helps me to live each present moment and to do my very best in that moment. Yoga challenges me, but nev-er mocks me. If I can’t accom-plish what my goal was to do that day, whether it be a certain posture or a certain intention like being grateful, yoga helps me to remember to accept and love myself for who I am today and to try again tomorrow.”



Mountains, forests, wa-terfalls and more. All of this can be found in the great outdoors.

This new year is the perfect opportunity to turn the typical workout into an exciting ad-venture by exploring the local mountains.

“For a lot of people, I think hiking is going to be nowhere near as boring as being in a gym, because you’re going to be constantly moving, see-ing new scenery and variety out there instead of spend-ing time on a treadmill or on a stair climber,” said Angeles National Forest ranger John Thornton.

The various angles and uneven level of the terrain force people to exercise addi-tional stabilizer muscles, al-lowing them to get an even

better workout than at the gym, Thornton said.

Another benefit is that the higher elevation puts more of a demand on the body and pro-vides for a more intense work-out, Thornton said.

There are also mental bene-fits to hiking.

Hiking allows people to disconnect from the stress of school and everyday life and lets them connect with them-selves instead, Bryant Mendo-za, senior graphic design ma-jor and treasurer of the CSUF Adventure Club said.

Thomas Vasquez, a sopho-more criminal justice major at CSUF and the vice president of the Adventure Club, also finds many benefits in hiking.

“I do have moments where I really appreciate it. You feel like if you see something nice that you don’t get to see ev-eryday, whether it’s a view of the mountains or just the sky from a different angle or a wa-terfall, it’s a good day to be alive,” Vasquez said.

The Adventure Club goes on many hikes and a few

camping trips throughout each semester. They love ex-ploring the outdoors, and joining the club could be an easy way for a CSUF student to start hiking and make some new friends along the way.

There are many hiking trails and waterfalls less than an hour drive from CSUF.

Hermit Falls in the San Ga-briel Mountains is a nice hike with a few waterfalls. Hiking to this popular waterfall is best done in the early morn-ing to avoid a crowd of people. Many people go cliff diving there, so that location recieves a lot of attention. Anyone con-sidering jumping should con-sider the risks and watch oth-er jumpers to see how to jump correctly.

To get to Hermit Falls from CSUF, take the 57 North up to the 210 West. Then take the Santa Anita Avenue exit and go right. That turns into Chantry Flat Road. Contin-ue up Chantry Flat Road until you arrive at the parking lot. There are a few trails in that area, so just follow the signs

to get to Hermit Falls.Another cool waterfall to

hike to is San Antonio Falls. The hike is relatively easy compared to other hikes, and the view of the falls is great. More adventurous hikers can climb up and around the waterfall.

To get to San Antonio Falls, take the 57 North up to the 210 East. Take the Baseline Road exit and go left. Short-ly after that, make a right on

Padua Avenue, which eventu-ally turns into Mount Baldy Road. Continue up Mount Baldy Road for a ways past the town until you get to a rocky parking area where many cars will be parked.

In the same area near the falls, there is the Mount Baldy summit hike. It is an intense 11-mile round trip hike. Stop by the visitor center in the Mount Baldy town and get some information before

attempting this hike. All of these hikes are in the

Angeles National Forest so they do require an adventure pass for vehicles. Sports Au-thority off of Harbor Boule-vard sells daily and yearly ad-venture passes.

There are many moun-tains to climb, forests to ex-plore and waterfalls to gaze at. Take up the challenge this new year and hike around in the great outdoors.

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Kareem Elshaar, an ad-vertising major, makes sure to walk to the outskirts of campus while smoking a cigarette. He finds himself

smoking less while at school because of the longer pro-cess involved with finding a secluded spot outside of the perimeter of the campus.

Since the campus-wide smoking ban went into ef-fect in 2013, smokers have been required to find anoth-er place to puff.

CSUF and Anaheim Regional Medical Cen-ter collaborate on smoking

cessation classes, which help students, faculty and staff quit smoking. Some classes are offered on campus and some are held at local estab-lishments for easy access to the public.

“Our program helps peo-ple who want to quit smok-ing; we do not force peo-ple to quit,” said Jaina Pallasigui, the head director of the smoking cessations

program at Anaheim Re-gional.

A total of 13 people at-tended the CSUF smoking cessations classes on the Fullerton or Irvine campus-es in 2014, Pallasigui said. Eight out of 13 participants were tobacco-free 180 days after completion of the class-es. That’s a successful 62 percent quit rate for CSUF participants.

CSUF members can find information about the smoking cessation class-es in the Student Health and Counseling Center on the Health Center website and by calling quitline at 1-866-639-5864.

Anaheim Regional Medi-cal Center is also a reliable resource to find cessation classes outside of the CSUF campus. Anaheim Regional

and Pallasigui provide Or-ange County residents alike with local smoking cessation classes all over the county.

As long as students, fac-ulty and staff are willing to oblige by the new smoking regulations, the smoking ban will help keep the campus clean and influence people to avoid smoking at school for overall better health consciousness.

A new year means a new list of new years resolutions. Unfortunately, if history is any indication, those resolu-tions quickly fall through.

Students who find going to the gym intimidating or can’t find the motivation to log out of their Netflix ac-counts shouldn’t call it quits just yet.

Here are some tips and tricks from Cal State

Fullerton’s staff and students.

NutritionDarany Hoang, a certified

health education specialist at Cal State Fullerton, explains the many faux pas students tend to make day to day. With the juggle of school, work and social lives, students can of-ten look past what they are putting into their bodies.

For college students, many of whom are new to grocery shopping, the cost of grocer-ies may seem higher than go-ing out to eat at first glance. What students may not take into account is how long those groceries will last com-pared to the $10 on average

they’ll spend eating out sever-al times a day, Hoang said.

“The basic nutrients that we need are basically divided into food groups which are our fa-mous: grains, fruits, vegeta-bles, proteins and dairy. These are all things that students can actively incorporate into their daily lives,” Hoang said.

MotivationTaking the time out of the

day to cook a meal or run to the gym can seem difficult, but not impossible. There is no need to spend hours in a gym or stress over the stove to get fit and healthy this year.

The main issue depriving individuals from becoming active and healthy is their own mental perception of lack of time and any oth-er excuses they may have, said kinesiology professor at CSUF, Kathleen Wilson, Ph.D.

Students have to think of what they want and how badly they want it. If some-one wants to lose weight, feel better, or just gain con-fidence, they have to imagine themselves that way. That will be their own personal motivator to get up and do something about it.

Alissa Martinez, communi-cation disorders major, admits it’s not always easy to get up and get active. However, the feeling of exercising and get-ting fit makes you feel better in the end.

“I try my best to be healthy. It just makes me feel better. I just want to be the best version of myself.” Martinez said.

Motivation, or lack thereof, is a key player in most peo-ple’s decisions when it comes

to getting healthy and being fit. Wilson explains the two biggest motivators that she has found in her research to help students get up off the couch.

She said that making and keeping a strict workout sched-ule, as well as finding a work-out buddy are useful ways to keep students going back to the gym.

FitnessThere is no health and

fitness without regular exer-cise. Exercise and diet go hand in hand to achieve a healthier lifestyle.

One hundred and fifty minutes a week is recom-mended for beginners for cardio or aerobic exercises. The key is finding an en-joyable workout. It can be running, swimming, hiking even gardening as long as it gets a person’s heart rate up, Wilson said.

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With health and nutrition gaining popularity through shows like The Chew on ABC, and Doctor Oz on Fox, many students are in-clined to eat healthy but can be barred from doing such, due to a lack of op-tions or the inability to pay higher prices for healthier foods.

“Food insecurity,” the inability to access nutri-tious foods, is a major is-sue among college students, according to the findings of a recent study published by the Journal of Nutrition

Education and Behavior. The study focused on stu-dents at a mid-sized rural university in Oregon and found that 59 percent of students suffered from food insecurity at some point in the previous year.

A lack of healthy food options available due to high cost or other factors leads to a higher risk of malnutrition among stu-dents, the study found.

Students who make less than $15,000 annual-ly were more likely to suf-fer from food insecurity. Students who performed well in school were less susceptible.

The study coincides with the opinion of Mayra Guer-rero, a freshman sociol-ogy major, who said that while she makes an honest

attempt to eat healthy, “it depends on the price.”

Cheap fast food at the TSU can be alluring to students with stomachs as empty as their wallets. Big portions can lead to over-consumption of foods that are high in calories or high in fats.

“I think it’s easier to eat unhealthy because a lot of students don’t have the time to make their own food or make healthy food, so they just go with whatever is available,” said Nick Guti-errez, senior business mar-keting major.

Gutierrez is aware that his favorite place to dine in, Panda Express, doesn’t benefit him health wise.

Panda Express offers combo plates where a cus-tomer can choose from one

side (rice or chow mien) and one or two meat entrées.

With the healthiest side option being white rice (380 calories), adding a meat option such as Beijing beef (690 calories) or or-ange chicken (420 calories), can put the customer half-way past the recommend-ed daily calorie intake with just one meal.

Healthier options are also available at the TSU. Panda Express offers soups such as hot & sour soup (100 cal-ories). Togo’s offers half sandwiches that contain as little as 290 calories. Baja Fresh offers salads as low as 290 calories. These op-tions are lower in calories, but also smaller in serving size, so some may not con-sider these options as a full meal.

TSU meals: low cost, high calorie

TSU restaurants offer healthy options, but students may opt for more filling, less healthy meals.

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Inexpensive meals can tempt students from healthy options

ANDREW MCLEANDaily Titan


Daily Titan Fitness and Wellness Guide, Jan. 26, 2015

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