At the afternoon poster session, a poster that I found really interesting, relevant, and informative aimed to test whether the “Freshman 15” was real or not. This poster, titled “A Representative Study of Baruch Students’ Diets By Grade Level” was much like my groups’ paper waste poster in the sense that they sent out surveys to students to collect data. Unlike my group who collected paper usage data, they logged number of times per week students ate fast food or ate home cooked meals. They were able to collect data from all the grade levels at Baruch, which made me a bit jealous because my group was limited in our data collecting ability.
The group that made the poster suspected that higher-grade level students would make healthier eating choices than lower grade level students, therefore claiming that the “Freshman 15” was real. Interestingly enough, their data proved them correct because they found as the grade levels progressed from college freshman to Senior, the amount of fast food consumed decreases and the amount of home cooked meals consumed increased.
I thought these findings were really relevant and useful because most people disregard the “Freshman 15” as a myth, when really it is something that happens and makes people unhealthy without them being aware of it. There are many obesity related diseases a person can get, and the “Freshman 15” can be avoided if people are aware of it and know they have to watch their eating habits and not recklessly consume junk.
In addition to this poster being very informative with lots of graphs and data, it was really colorful and the group members were able to very persuasively convey their information. I nominated this group for most interesting presentation, but they didn’t win. They’re still winners to me!
