Making your dreams come true

Nicholas Jacques is new to the art department. He has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in communication design from Kutztown University, a BFA in painting from the University of Hartford and a Master of Fine Arts in painting from Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.

Q: What do you have your students call you?

A: I go by Nick and occasionally Sensai. It was supposed to be a joke but with a few people the name stuck.

Q: Where’s your hometown?

A: I was born in Chicago and raised in Philadelphia.

Q: What do you think of Cabrini so far?

A: I really like it. I was an adjunct all of last year and substituted for three classes each semester. So I got acquainted with the campus.

Q: What’s your favorite book?

A: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. I read it for the first time in high school. I liked it a lot and recently read it again and got reacquainted.

Q: What’s your guilty pleasure?

A: I’m a big Genesis fan. I recently went to see them two nights in a row. The second night I had floor seats.

Green tea has been known to have numerous health benefits such as reducing a person’s blood pressure.

states that antioxidants are, “compounds in food that help fight the process of oxidation, or oxidative stress, a factor in virtually every degenerative disease.”

Think of an apple that’s been cut in half or already eaten. Let it sit out and the inner part exposed to the air turns brown.

It can cause damage to cells and organs when this process occurs inside the body, but it happens daily.

Don’t stress too much, because there are tons of antioxidants in other foods

There are a few extra special reasons why green tea should be appealing to college students. It speeds up the metabolism, a major priority for those who are dreading the freshman 15.

It also releases dopamine, one of the main chemicals in the brain which’s associated with pleasure. This lifts moods and lowers stress. Plus, tea bags are extremely inexpensive.

If getting a lift to the grocery store is not an option Jazzman’s has green tea bags ready for brewing. They also carry Arizona’s green tea cold in regular and diet, but don’t be mislead. Most bought cold are already sweetened. The sugary versions out on the market have such a little serving of all the good stuff that it’s better to only drink them for taste, Annette Teichman, a registered dietician and professor of nutrition at Gwynned Mercy College and Montgomery County College Community College, said. She said that benefits lie in the actual tea. That means minus the added high fructose corn syrup brands like Lipton posses in some of their teas.

Most cold brands don’t live up to the actual benefits the tea can generate. If striving for the benefits in the cold version tickles the fancy then brew and chill or just read the label carefully and watch out for sweeteners.