We’re not sure if this news is going to comfort or confound some fragile teenage psyches, but here we go: There’s no such things as the Freshman 15, that fabled weight gain we’ve all been told comes from dining hall ice cream dinners, post-bong session munchies, sleeping till noon, late night pizza delivery on the new credit card, binge drinking the stressful first year of college.
That’s the conclusion coming from a study conducted at the Ohio State University, and if anyone knows about gaining weight in college, it’s probably a massive state school in Columbus.
This article appears in Oct 26 – Nov 1, 2011.