Living on Texas Woman’s University campus my freshmen year. As I think back there was really no talk in the campus news or any programs being conducted discussing CVD among women. This is alarming to me because this is really a major problem for us as women. Now being that this is predominately all women campus you would think that someone would have conducted a study on the areas of prevention for CVD. Therefore, viewing how TWU was setup in 2004-2007 before I left campus. The student center where the food was prepared there was not a lot of healthy food choices. We only had one wellness floor and this only allowed for about 30 students to partake in the university 101 class. With all of the negative being said we did have many fitness centers available for students with state of the art equipment to encourage physical activity. To reiterate what has been discussed TWU in itself should be playing a more active role in disease prevention for women regarding CVD. It needs to begin with healthier food choices. This alone will decrease high blood pressure, cholesterol and obesity and diabetes. These are major preventive factors that are needed to decrease the risk of developing heart disease. For the institution to promote a decrease in smoking which is an environmental factor as well would be to designate center spots only for students to smoke. A big help would be to host seminars or awareness programs to make students aware. This needs to be greatly advocated and I have listed a few sites to view regarding heart disease.
I found an article that was published in winter of 2008 for TWU regarding their first annual Power of a Healthy Woman. Please feel free to click on the link to view the article.
http://www.twu.edu/downloads/iwh/Newsletter_Fall_2008.pdf
Check this website out viewing the risk factors of heart disease.
http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=4786
Another website sponsor by TWU
http://www.twu.edu/womens-health/default.asp
Its interesting to know the facts about TWU and the changes it has made since 2004-2007. I think there should be a group of student advacates for healthier hearts among women. I do agree and know 1st hand about the not so healthy food on campus. Last spring I personally was on campus and tried the free food for students they had there on campus. There was lots of unhealthy free food like fried french fries and fried chicken strips...tasted good.....but wasn't so healthy. Who says no to free food =) thats the hard part. I do believe they did healthy as well but ratio maybe was 98% bad food/2% good food. A change for the better is always good....haven't eaten free food on campus since, I do hope it has gotten better for the sake of the students and there health;)
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