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How to reduce the 'freshmen 15' weight gain.
The question was, "The freshman 15-fact or fallacy?" Asking was Dr. Janice Jewett, who presented her study and findings on freshmen weight gain at the Women in Educational Leadership conference at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln in October. She is an assistant professor of health, human performance and recreation at Pittsburgh State University KS.
The study
During the first two weeks of their first semester as freshmen and again 10 weeks later, Jewett measured the height and weight of 299 freshmen at a small Midwestern university, 145 women and 154 men. The 299 were about 32% of the traditional freshmen enrolled at the school in the fall of 2006.
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She solicited participants from the first-year students taking either the Freshmen Experience required orientation class or Lifetime Fitness Concepts classes.
The findings
Jewett found that female students had a smaller weight gain than males, one pound compared with three pounds. She followed up her study with interviews of nine participants, representing females and males, and both those who gained weight and those who maintained their weights.
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