Margaret and Deanna from our office coordinated a new media contest... and we want to know more about your OneLess. The winner receives dinner for them and 10 friends (from an outside vendor) on us! So OneLess dinner at Season's!
For details visit www.bentley.edu/oneless and contest rules are available at http://campus-life.bentley.edu/sites/campus-life.bentley.edu/files/u48/one-less-video.pdf
Since we're asking you about your OneLess, we figured, we'd offer some perspective too.
Here's what Deanna has to say:
As the campus Dietitian, I see students with a wide variety of goals. A really common goal is to “be healthier” and to “manage my weight”.
For students who choose to consume alcohol, I challenge them with this…why not have OneLess? That is, either OneLess drink per occasion or OneLess night of drinking all together. It would surely be a step in the right direction in terms of being healthier and managing your weight.
Did you know that on average one beer has 150 calories?
Six beers per night is a whopping 900 calories. And these are EMPTY calories…meaning that there is nothing beneficial about it.
Drinking six beers just one night per week is 3600 calories per month or 46,800 calories per year…which is over 13 lbs.
Or the equivalent of 21.5 LARGE PIZZAS.
Drinking more than this? You do the math.
Consider OneLess for your health.
I am one of the Nurse Practitioners and the Assistant Director for the Health and Wellness Center at Bentley University. I am also a member of the OneLess Committee which formed last Spring as a collaborative effort from Student Affairs and our office. Something I learned at an Alcohol Summit conference last year was that if students, who drank alcohol, were to choose to drink one less drink per occasion it could have a significantly positive impact on academics, health, and finances. I thought it was incredible that making just a small change in behavior could result in such a positive outcome.
I encourage all of you to learn more about OneLess and learn what it could mean to you!!
