By Jacob Boone | Workers Author
“There aren’t any wholesome meals; there aren’t any unhealthy meals. There are wholesome diets and unhealthy diets.”
Stanley Wilfong, senior lecturer and program coordinator for vitamin sciences, debunked some frequent vitamin myths and suggested college students on methods to uncover a wholesome, individualized food plan. Whereas many promote themselves as “higher than the Western food plan,” Wilfong mentioned, “that doesn’t imply it’s essentially good.”
“I believe college students ought to get educated, however watch out on Google,” Wilfong mentioned. “A lot of the stuff on there may be inaccurate.”
Lately, Wilfong mentioned there was a progress of individuals with little well being science training spreading misinformation on-line. This has led to the event of utmost diets that revenue from dietary imbalance.
As a substitute of taking recommendation from influencers, Wilfong mentioned he encourages college students to take a minimum of one vitamin course. Georgetown sophomore and vitamin main Kaylee Pestow mentioned there are lots of advantages to enrolling in a vitamin class.
“I don’t even know the place to start out,” Pestow mentioned. “[It can give you] perception on meals you usually look over and [help you] make modifications in what you’re consuming and what you’re cooking.”
Whereas well being targets differ from individual to individual, Wilfong mentioned there are particular vitamins that most individuals are brief on throughout the board.
“We’re not getting sufficient potassium, vitamin D, calcium, fiber,” Wilfong mentioned.
Nevertheless, as a substitute of discovering these vitamins in full meals, Wilfong mentioned many individuals typically overprescribe protein and reduce out carbohydrates.
“Diet is about moderation, steadiness and selection — ensuring you’re getting sufficient of all the things however not an excessive amount of of something,” Wilfong mentioned. “You’ll drop a few pounds on a keto food plan. Additionally, you will drop a few pounds by chopping your head off. I don’t advocate that both.”
Baylor’s assist for pupil well being doesn’t finish within the classroom. Within the discipline, Baylor’s Peer Diet Advisement Program affords college students customized counseling with specialists.
“Among the questions that college students ask throughout these classes are about methods to navigate maintaining a healthy diet on campus within the eating halls, methods to eat wholesome on a good finances, how to buy wholesome meals that they will cook dinner for themselves, in addition to considerations about the correct amount of caloric consumption for both weight reduction or acquire,” program director Jared Gould mentioned in a earlier Lariat article. “Extra lately, college students have additionally been asking about dietary supplements and methods to greatest gauge the standard of dietary supplements.”
For these battling an consuming dysfunction, Baylor’s Counseling Middle is accessible for session, assist and sources.