Breakfast: College cafeterias provide a wide range of cereals, ranging from Kellogs Fruit Loops to Honey Bunches of Oats. DUN DUN DUN DUN—you are forced to make a LIFE CHANGING decision.
Don't even think about eating Kellogs Fruit Loops! They are artificially flavored and contain 20% saturated fat (bleh).Saturated fat clogs your arteries and hinders the transport of blood from reaching the heart.
So remember that when fate tempts you with artificially flavored saturated fat. New college student Helena Emmanuel, and former Fruit Loops lover says, "Goodbye fruit loops," as she moves towards healthier options. You can do this too!
Among one of the healthier options she chooses, she eats Whole Grain Cheerios. Whole grains are beneficial to your health because they reduce the risk of heart disease and type 2 diabetes. Additionally, they have no trans fat or saturated fat. And as they promote, they are clinically proven to help reduce cholesterol by 4% in six weeks.
Lunch: A few hours pass and you arrive in the lunch line. You have the ability to choose between hot and cold lunches.
Lunch: A few hours pass and you arrive in the lunch line. You have the ability to choose between hot and cold lunches.
Hot Lunches: When you choose to eat the cafeterias "special hot lunch," you never know what's really in the food (unless you put much effort into looking it up). Take fried chicken and macaroni and cheese, for example. The cheese in the macaroni consists of an extra 12 grams of saturated fat (that's a lot considering most meals have 4 grams at most). College student Emma Carron says, "I just can't eat all that. It's not good." She later recommended that students should refrain from eating the hot entrees.
Cold Lunches: Lunches that are not cooked by the cafeteria, known as cold lunches, are healthier meals to eat. [This is because] "When you prepare lunch yourself, you are aware of the chemicals and nutrients that are entering your body," nutrition expert John Grey from G.N.C. said. One example would be a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. You know it contains peanut butter and jelly, which are ingredients that would not be nutritionally altered by the cafeteria. College student Jacqueline Lo expressed, "I feel empowered knowing this because I can make the decisions I want for my health." It reminds Lo of when she lived at home and had a refrigerator full of possibilities. 
The following consists of a valuable guide to preparing a healthy meal using the ingredients from a college cafeteria. To begin the process of making a healthy peanut butter and jelly sandwich, for example, start by choosing between whole grain bread and white bread. As a reminder, whole grain bread is good and good for you because it reduces heart disease and types of cancers. (Click here for more.) White bread is bad for you because it increases blood sugar levels and raises cholesterol. As for conventional peanut butter, there are 78 pesticides found. 12 are known as possible carcinogens, 37 are suspected hormone disruptors, and 17 are neurotoxins. Too dark and dreary for you? Choose organic peanut butter because you will not be ingesting any of this.
Dinner: There's one more meal of the day; dinner. I know, I know, meat is the best! One vegetarian actress from 10 Things I Hate About You said on the show that she ate a hamburger and it was like an orgasm in her mouth. Then she recanted on her vegetarian beliefs. (Sarcasm) So by all means go eat a hamburger! But if you are determined to resist gaining the Freshmen 15, you're gonna have to work hard for it. And that's when you are faced with the ultimate dilemna of hamburger vs. salad during dinner time.
The salad above features pine nuts, edamamae, kidney beans, and a tomato. Pine nuts are an appetite suppressor to prevent weight gain. They consist of 10-34 percent protein, made up of 160 calories, and are highly rich in potassium that's good for your heart. (Learn more here.) Edamamae is also filled with protein; eating a half cup substitutes 11 grams. They are only 125 calories, and contain 9 amino acids that the human body cannot make. Kidney beans are beneficial to your health because they stabilize your blood sugar and reduce cholesterol. Lastly, tomatoes work to prevent heart disease.
Apparently, there are 16 grams of protein in your average hamburger and approximately 500 calories. Compare 16 grams of protein in both options with 500 calories in the burger and 285 calories in the salad. Eating that healthy salad will prevent you from a pudgey tummy.
As far as I'm concerned, God gave people free will. Anyone may choose the dietary style they want to have, but keep in mind that "You are what you eat." There's also a blog on why you are fat. Everyday when you choose between fruit loops or whole grain cheerios, between a hot lunch or a cold lunch, or between a hamburger versus a salad, you are making life changing decisions. This may seem drastic, but if you resort to cheerios that contain lots of saturated fat, it will contribute to having clogged arteries later in life. This opens the possibility up for a heart attack, which would be life changing.
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