Nutritional Awareness and Healthier Living
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0Boost nutritional awareness and promote healthier living by increasing the accessibility of both.
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Nutritional Awareness and Healthier LivingIt’s becoming increasingly easier to rely on fast-food restaurants and items for meals, mainly due to the efficiency and cost of such resources. Fast-food vendors and food items have become ingrained in our society and economy, and any effort to remove them from daily life would be futile. The accessibility of fast-food—both in cost and location—allows for college students to become somewhat unconsciously reliant upon an unhealthy diet. While many students exercise and do find ways to eat in a physically responsible manner, it seems as if the majority of students do not balance their meal choices enough to be able to acquire a proper level of nutrition. Many students are not aware of the need for a balanced diet, as they can function perfectly well, be good shape, and feel healthy while eating a steady diet of nutritionally weak foods—and this allows for an easy neglecting of the long-term effects of an unbalanced diet
The goal of this idea is to provide individuals with the opportunity to gain nutrition in a manner that reflects two of the aforementioned attractive aspects of fast-food: 1) easy access and 2) cost-efficiency. Providing a clear and easy way to acquire vitamins and minerals could raise general awareness for the need to maintain a healthy diet.
A checklist of nutritional supplements, along with a small blurb on the specific health benefits of each supplement, will be available to students across campus. The students will check-off those which they desire to receive (for example, check “multi-vitamin, calcium chew, fish oil…etc”). At the beginning of each month, a months supply of the chosen supplements will be delivered to the students’ dorms by members of the group operating the business, or will be left for the students at their mailboxes on campus. A local store—such as Whole Foods, which has a great selection of general health supplements—will provide the supplements at a discount. This allows the students to receive the supplements in a more cost-effective manner. In exchange, the store will have the opportunity to advertise to the students receiving the vitamins—for example, it could create a pamphlet to be delivered with the vitamins.