Does Everyone Gain Weight in College?
It’s funny that there is an idea out there that you gain weight when you hit college. I personally have seen both this happen, and the complete opposite happen, where some of my girlfriends really thinned down when they went away to college. The funny thing is, it was mostly guys that I knew that gained the famous “freshman fifteen” and then some, the girls seemed to actually lose the weight.
Unfortunately that whole “vaccine for weight loss” thing we reported on a while ago hasn’t materialized, otherwise this freshman weight gain wouldn’t be much of a concern 
At least that was my own experience with the people around me. It’s easy to either gain or lose weight when you leave the nest for the first time. There are so many nerves going on about being away from home, trying to succeed in school, and generally being nervous about never knowing where you’re going or how you’re going to eat that day half the time because you’re broke.
Of course, this is how it was for me, I can’t say that’s how it was for everyone else. I had a job in college too, and it was waiting tables, which kept me in great shape. Not only did the constant cardio of being a server shape me, but I also happened to work out at least five days a week back then. Yeah, I was single and I care way too much about what I looked like to the guys back then, but hey, that really kept me in shape, let me tell you!
I sometimes wonder if I should go back to waiting tables, just for the great shape it kept me in through college! And the tips were nice too, because I always had cash on hand of course!
If you go to college, just make sure you don’t only drink beer, and that your only meals are pizza and cheeseburgers. It’s easy to eat a lot of crap food when you’re in college because there are a ton of restaurants open late tha thave delicious food to cater to drunk college students.
Just staying away from eating late at night will save you a boatload of weight gain! Now if only I can get a handle on my Sunday football pigouts, I’ll be good to go.
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Vitamin D and Blood Sugar
Well, well. Vitamin D is, after all, turning out to be quite the wonder vitamin. Vitamin D, a very easily obtained vitamin which is also fairly inexpensive in pill form, and can be freely obtained via sunlight exposure, has long been thought to be a pivotal part of preventing cancer, helping to maintain bone density, and helping to prevent asthma and heart disease, among a host of many other health benefits.
After the villification of the sunlight as a cancer causing agent, a lot of research has instead pointed to combining sunlight with hazardous chemical-laced sunscreens and tanning products as a major contributor as well. This is not to say that excessive exposure to sunlight cannot cause skin cancer.
It most certainly can. However, it seems more and more likely that a combination of not having enough vitamin D circulating in the blood stream and antioxidants, may be more the culprit than the sunlight itself in the burning and cell damage done on some people from the sun.
Researchers in Australia are also now uncovering significant evidence that vitamin D levels circulating in the blood may be linked to blood sugar levels remaining stable. They found a correlation between low vitamin D levels and diabetes, showing that those with low vitamin D levels had over a 50% higher chance of developing diabetes.
It is not known exactly why vitamin D seems to protect people from developing diabetes throughout their lives. Perhaps we will know why in our lifetime, this vitamin seems to be so pivotal to so many human body functions, including now diabetes prevention.
I must say that since I have been taking vitamin D and getting artificial sunlight via a UVB tanning booth twice a week, I have not gotten sick once. So I firmly believe that vitamin D levels contribute heavily to an awesome immune response, among a huge range of health benefits.
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