Teen Fitness, Teen Health and College Health: Small, Easy Changes Before Big Ones

Teen fitness, teen health and college health issues are everywhere. Teen fitness because teens are overweight, college health because of the “freshman 15“ and teen health because of weight issues like Type II Diabetes.

How can we make issues like teen fitness and college health less of such an incredible concern? When people talk about “teen health”, how can we make sure the conversations are about how great our teen health is? Why can’t “teen fitness” mean how fit our teens are?

When trying to change things like college health and teen fitness, we need to look at the micro instead of the macro. Sure, teen health wouldn’t be a big deal if all the McDonalds in the country were gone. And sure, college health would be a lot better if college students didn’t drink. And finally, teen fitness would be a lot better if everyone made a varsity sport and there weren’t any vending machines in cafeterias.

But lets face it, college health, teen health and teen fitness is at the forefront of our society’s concerns because these things aren’t true. Because of this, college health and teen fitness will not improve with drastic changes. Teen health will be improved with small changes.

Sure, fixing college health would be great by eliminating keggers. And obviously teen health and teen fitness would improve without the Internet. But in today’s day and age, these things aren’t going to happen. Teen health and teen fitness will continue to diminish and college health will keep getting worse without small changes.

Simple ways to improve teen health, college health and teen fitness:

-Look for healthier options at the vending machines. Teen health is declining every time a student chooses a Ho Ho, Twinkie or packet of M&M’s. Most vending machines have healthier options.

Small change needed to improve teen health and teen cbdrumour.com:

Switch to a healthier snack like pretzels or baked chips. Or, if you can’t do that, try to only hit the vending machine once every other day. Either choice will save you hundreds of calories a day. This will certainly help teen health and teen fitness.