Recall Anup, the Nepalese student that you read about at the beginning of this chapter, and his struggle to adapt to American foods. Have you become friends with any foreign students at your university, and if so, what major challenges have they experienced adapting to American college eating?
Major challenges of adapting to American college eating include:
- Making you own food choices.
- Being exposed to a variety of new and different foods.
- Freedom to purchase as much fast food as desired.
- Limitation of time, which may result in skipping meals in order to attend class or gain sleep.
- Being accustomed to prepared meals at regular times.
- Eating for social reasons rather than for nutrition.
- Experimenting with new diets, vegetarianism, colonic-rinse, etc.
- Advice (potentially poor advice) about dietary habits from new friends or roommates.
- Irregular meals/snacks due to schedule.
- And one of Anup’s issues: food is different than at home.
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