What causes Type 2 diabetes? For most, the answer seems clear: obesity is the top risk factor. But Cal Poly kinesiology professor Marilyn Tseng thinks there may be something else that plays a crucial role. Before she started teaching at Cal Poly, Tseng worked at the Fox Chase Cancer Center, a research hospital in Philadelphia. […]
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Political science class calls paramedics for professor
Settle chose not to go to the hospital and was released by paramedics.
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Health experts offer advice for avoiding the freshman 15
It’s this cycle of snacking, debating and settling on the easiest option that throws freshmen for a spin.
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5-Minute Update: Buffalo Wild Wings now open, Monarch butterflies migrate to Pismo
Mustang News anchor Julian Del Gaudio covers today’s top stories at Cal Poly.
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Benefits go beyond the lines
Forget the steroids stories and cheating scandals — sports are a good thing. From badminton to basketball, there are benefits in every game. Team sports in particular build physical, mental and emotional health.
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Sex does a body good
Julianne Roth is a journalism senior and Mustang Daily sex columnist. Magic is among us. It’s in the bedroom, or on the fifth floor of the library — I heard some people like to have sex up there. We are all capable wizards and witches, but if one chooses to be a muggle, she is […]
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Unpacking the pounds: the freshman 15 demystified
While the Freshman 15 is a myth, adjusting to a new lifestyle can effect the health of first-time college students.
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Budgets threaten FLASH study
A Cal Poly-run study on college student health and fitness could be gone in a flash, before the study’s initial purpose has been fulfilled. FLASH, which began researching the health habits of Cal Poly students in Fall 2009 with that year’s incoming freshmen, may not return to campus next year due to budgetary constraints. It […]
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Volunteers needed in a FLASH
Preparation is underway for the final round of testing in Cal Poly’s one-of-a-kind research study: FLASH. Volunteers are needed this quarter to start training in order to be ready to test as many as 2,000 student participants in the spring, study founder Ann McDermott said. FLASH tracks the health, behavior and lifestyle choices of students at […]
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Pumping Iron
The new Recreation Center is finally open, and health nuts everywhere are working overtime. It’s easy to find someone “pumping iron,” but as I head over to the Red Cross to attempt to give blood again, there isn’t enough iron in my veins to get even a small pump out. At first, I was frustrated […]
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Freshman test bodies before disappearing in a FLASH
Currently, FLASH is working on the Freshmen Heart Health Study, which screens newly admitted freshmen from fall quarter and tests their cholesterol and glucose.