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Wednesday 11.21.12 Vol. 80 No. 049
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Holiday Calories Rack Up Students can avoid gaining weight as they gobble down Thanksgiving treats By L. Taylor Smith
news@dailyhelmsman.com Today, stressed and starving students are abandoning their study guides for a weekend of freedom, family and feasts. However, the heaping plates of turkey, mashed potatoes, pumpkin pie and calories each carries can be more harmful than helpful. A calorie is a unit of heat energy, and a pound of body weight is about 3,500 calories. The average American consumes about 4,500 calories on Thanksgiving, which is about twice the average caloric intake of an average adult. Jennifer Barnoud, a clinical nutrition graduate student and nutrition educator with Student Health Services, said calories rack up quickly because Thanksgiving is a cultural tradition that encourages gorging and grazing throughout the day. “We pile up our plates, go back for seconds on our favorites, and, of course, we end up having a dessert or two,” Barnoud said. “When you start to add up all of the butter, breading, sugar, creams, gravies and sugarsweetened beverages we consume just at lunch, it’s easy to see how someone could eat that many calories.” The holiday can be especially problematic for those looking to maintain a healthy weight because traditional Thanksgiving dishes are denser in calories and lead to greater weight gain. A study found t h a t although the average college student does not gain a sig-
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Chefs Karen and Quinn Hatfield, children Bennett and Paige, and in-laws Larry and Linda Friedman, enjoy a Thanksgiving dinner at the Hatfield’s Laurel Canyon home in Los Angeles, Calif. nificant amount of weight between Thanksgiving and New Year’s, body composition changes and can lead to a higher percentage of body fat. The result of binging on calorie-heavy foods can cause long-term health problems. “Besides the discomfort of an overly-stuffed stomach, long-term overeating can lead to diabetes and heart disease,” Barnoud said. “You can’t put the blame for these diseases on one day of overeating, but each day of poor lifestyle choices contributes to the risk of developing these chronic diseases.” The MD Anderson Cancer Center at the University of Texas advises men to limit their calories to 700
per meal and women to limit caloric intake to 500 per meal. A conservative Thanksgiving plate has a piece of turkey about the size of a deck of cards, a half cup of mashed potatoes, a half cup of stuffing, and a golf-ball sized portion of cranberry sauce. In addition to monitoring portion sizes, Barnoud recommends staying away from the food to avoid snacking between plates and avoiding certain drinks. “If you typically drink two glasses of sweet tea with dinner, you could easily save yourself up to 350 calories by switching to water or unsweetened tea or using a sugar substitute,” Barnoud said. Hunter King, a sophomore bio-
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G o b b l e Mid-South Food Bank hosts annual Turkey Drive
As people prepare for their Thanksgiving travels and traditions, the Mid-South Food Bank is nearing its annual frozen turkey donation goal. Marcia Wells, communications director for the Mid-South Food Bank, said the Turkey Drive has taken place for years now. “It really kind of started in earnest a couple of years ago when we discovered a week before Thanksgiving that we didn’t have any turkeys,” she said. “And we got almost 5,000 in a week.” Wells said the goal every year since then is always set for at least 5,000 turkeys. People can donate turkeys at the Mid-South
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medical engineering major, tries not to overindulge on Turkey Day because he said it is not a healthy practice. “I eat some of everything, but I stop eating when I’m full,” King said. “I don’t like feeling fat.” Others, however, find the custom of stuffing themselves hard to sidestep, despite the possible consequences. Lea Hay, a graduate student in speech-language pathology, will be celebrating four Thanksgiving dinners by the end of the week. “This year I’m going to have to super overeat because I’m going to my fiancé’s family’s Thanksgiving dinner for the first time,” Hay said. “He has a really big family, so there’s going to be tons of food.” n
Food Bank in person from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 239 S. Dudley Street, or can donate money online and select “Turkeys,” from the designation drop box. As of Tuesday, monetary and physical donations have accounted for approximately 3,000 turkeys. Wells said $15 can help purchase a 12-pound turkey. “Turkeys have no season as far as I’m concerned,” she said. “Whatever doesn’t get distributed before Thanksgiving will be all ready for Christmas.” Though the Turkey Drive ends this afternoon at 5 p.m., turkeys can be donated to the MidSouth Food Bank all year. n
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Graduating seniors of the University of Memphis’ Department of Fine Arts will showcase their talents in an end-of-the-semester exhibition. “Flat Mates: A View of Eight” will open Nov. 30 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Marshall Arts Gallery located in downtown Memphis at 639 Marshall Ave. The department expects 300 to 400 people at the show. “Marshall Arts Gallery has had a great relationship with the U of M for several years now,” said Anna Roach, primary organizer of the exhibition. The Gallery was chosen as the venue because it allows students to set up the show over one week and rent a space for one night. The students participating in the exhibition are seniors in the fine arts program who are graduating in December. The Department of Fine Arts has an exhibition at the end of every semester, and this semester there will be eight participants. Roach will exhibit 12 paintings in the show. She has made all of the paintings in the past year. “I was originally inspired by old vintage photos of my family members as young children and how haunting those images are,” Roach said. Her paintings will display a series of children with different identities. Roach said she varied the identities in the old photos of her family and emphasized the commonality of childhood between “familiar, famous and even infamous individuals.” “We chose the theme ‘Flat Mates’ because most of us have studios here on campus, and there is this communal environment between us since we tend to spend a lot of time in our studios,” Roach said. The artists in the show will exhibit themes that explore space, the body, systems of control, lack of control of one’s environment, memory and obsession. Roach said some of them have been invited to exhibit their work in commercial galleries and others will be going to graduate school. n
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