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College Cafeteria Food Mystery Exposed:
The Good vs. Bad Student Reality Diet Formula!
by Joe DePalma

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Good vs. Bad – The Student Reality Diet Formula
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Good Stuff vs. Bad Stuff

Water vs. Beer

Vitamins vs. Sugar

Vegetables vs. Grease

Student Reality Diet Formula: 5 Crucial Primary Steps and More…

Step #1: College Cafeteria Food Mystery Exposed - Take Vitamins Daily

Take one multivitamin and one vitamin C capsule every day. You must supplement your diet with these basic vitamins to make up for the lack of nutrients in your cafeteria's sugary food.

Step #2: College Cafeteria Food Mystery Exposed - Counteract The Grease

For every burger, cheese steak or taco you eat, you need to add a vegetable on the side
(like corn, string beans or carrots) to aid in digestion.

Step #3: College Cafeteria Food Mystery Exposed - Don't Forget The Salads

In addition to the vegetables, you MUST eat salads and fruits to stabilize the negative effects of everything else you are eating. Adding fruit to cereal or having a quick side salad as a snack are great ways to get those much-needed nutrients into your system.

Step #4: College Cafeteria Food Mystery Exposed - What Is It?

Never, EVER eat anything that forces you to read a label or sign to figure out exactly what it is. If you do not know what it is within the first two seconds of looking at it, DON'T EAT IT!

Step # 5: College Cafeteria Food Mystery Exposed - ONLY If You Drink Alcohol

Drink at least 50 percent of your alcohol intake in water. For every six alcohol-based beverages you drink, consume at least three glasses of water. If you fall asleep before drinking your water, be sure to drink it as soon as you wake up. Your body needs the water to counter the dehydrating effects of the alcohol. If you drink alcohol, drink LOTS OF WATER!

The Student Reality Diet Formula is not a weight loss technique, but rather a basic nutritional aid concentrating on limiting any weight gain and battling the adverse effects of living an average college lifestyle in which nutrition isn't normally the highest priority. The Student Reality Diet Formula is simply a plan of action that is based on the fact that 90 percent of college students cannot avoid eating poorly due to limited transportation, lack of private food storage and utilities, insufficient cooking knowledge, and shortage of funds. The Student Reality Diet Formula was designed to allow students to live an active college lifestyle while integrating a nutritional responsibility.

For most students, being in college also means that it is the first time in their lives that they have complete control over their daily diet and can eat whatever they want, whenever they want, and however much they want without being told otherwise. That is why most freshmen weigh 10-15 pounds more on the last day of class than they did on the first. It is not easy managing a college diet, but gaining weight is not the only problem college students face in the cafeteria.

There is another problem that lurks within today's cafeteria menu. Not only do most college freshman gain more weight in their first year of higher education than they did in their last year of high school, but they mysteriously seem to get more cavities as well. Hmmm...

The Biggest College Cafeteria Food Mystery Exposed:

A little secret that most schools do not want students to know is that they juice up their foods with massive amounts of sugar to add taste to the less than grade A meals they offer. That extra sugar turns to extra fat when digested, which means that the percentage of fat each student is ingesting is much higher than any cafeteria health chart will indicate.

This secret addition of sugar to almost every food that is prepared in a college cafeteria is also responsible for today's puzzling student tooth decay epidemic. The simplest way to avoid the cafeteria sugar deception and dine healthier is to eat foods that do not have to be prepared, like salad, fresh fruit, yogurt, cereal, bagels, and cold sandwiches.

As the old saying goes, “You are what you eat.” That is true for the average person, but most college students do not think it applies to them. Students can eat and drink and drink and eat all day, and some of them continue to feel and look just fine.

A lot of college students subconsciously believe that they have a magical field around them that protects them from any ill effects of poor eating, excessive drinking of sugary sodas, and lack of exercise. The Student Reality Diet Formula's main message is that any magical field a student believes he or she has will definitely wear off sooner or later. Whatever food a student puts in their body today will build the body they are going to have throughout their twenties, into their thirties, and for the rest of their life.

The single lesson that all students need to learn is that in every aspect of college and life, what goes around will indeed come back around. When that theory is applied to a college diet, it adds up to the undeniable fact that if a student continually eats crappy foods today, they are going to look and feel like crap someday soon. Maybe not tomorrow or even the next day, but it will all even out soon enough. It is undeniable!

As a college student, whatever you do, don't let yourself become comfortable with crappy foods. If you become comfortable with crappy foods today, the more likely it is that you will continue to be comfortable with them tomorrow, and the next day, and the next day, and the next day...

* ACTION STEPS- College Cafeteria Food Mystery Exposed *

List three meal items you are going to cut your intake of by half starting today:
(Example: Potatoes or Candy)

1)_______________________________________________________

2)_______________________________________________________

3)_______________________________________________________

List three meal items you are going to double your intake of starting today:
(Example: Salads or Fruits)

1)_______________________________________________________

2)_______________________________________________________

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