Lace up and walk on National Walking Day, April 4

National Walking Day warm up

Lace up your sneakers and celebrate National Walking Day with Health Promotion and Wellness, the American Heart Association Greater Illinois, OSF Center for Healthy Lifestyles, and others on Wednesday, April 4, at noon on the Quad.

#GroupGoals Fitness Incentive Program

From March 27 to April 24, Campus Recreation is giving a little extra encouragement to attend fitness classes with the #GroupGoals Fitness Incentive Program.

Not sick enough?

photo of Student Services Building

The media usually portrays what an eating disorder looks like by one image: an overly skinny girl. There are countless examples of this, like To the Bone, a Netflix movie that displays an underweight woman going through an eating disorder, and Starving in Suburbia, a movie about a dancer that obsesses about being thin. When television, movies, and the media portray an eating disorder as this, people may assume that to have an eating disorder, you must look a certain way—underweight. Women who are average weight or overweight might not get the help they need if others do not believe they are “sick enough.”

Take your food further with less waste

person getting nutrition consult

Every March, in honor of National Nutrition Month, The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics chooses a theme to encourage deeper thought about our eating and lifestyle choices. The theme for 2018 is Going Further with Food. This year’s message is unique and powerful because it encourages us to look at food from the perspective of