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201 Donaghey Avenue
Conway, AR 72035.  Bernard Hall Room 007

Phone: 501-450-3383

Email: stephens-april@aramark.com

Food is the fuel your body needs to function. Chances are you're pretty careful about what you put into your car's gas tank. Shouldn't you care at least as much about what you eat? Today there's a wider variety of foods to choose from than ever before. Making smart choices is a critical part of any total health plan. When you combine a well-balanced diet with moderate exercise, it can help you feel better and keep off unwanted pounds, while avoiding the revolving door of dieting. 

Dining Services believes that good nutrition is essential to good health. To help assist you in furnishing you body with the essentials for a healthy diet, we have several tools to offer. We have healthy initiative signs posted at all locations on items sold that are essential to smart eating. If you are interested in the nutritional information that we serve every day in the Residence Halls, please go back to the home page and click on today's menu in the upper left hand corner. Finally, we offer assistance from a Registered Dietician. If you have special dietary needs or concerns, please contact us and we will get you in touch with Health Services or our nutritionist. For quick reference and education on healthy eating, we have nutritional web site links to help you.

If you don't see what you need, or have suggestions, please contact us or fill out a comment card. We welcome your suggestions.

Healthy Eating in the Cafeteria

Pasta Station - Pizza Station - Comfort Station - Exhibition Station - Grille Work Station - Ice Cream Station - Omelet Station - Salad Bar - Dessert Station - Deli Station.  With all of these tempting choices available in the cafeteria, you may find it difficult to know what choices to make in order to get a well-balanced diet.  A healthy diet is all about moderation and balance.  It's not that you can no longer have your favorite dessert, but that you can have it in moderation and balance it out with healthier food choices and exercise. 

April Stephens, MS, RD, LD

Stephens-april@aramark.com

501-450-3383
Bernard Hall Room 007

  


 




How to Stick to Your

New Year’s Resolution

 

 

How many times have you made a New Year’s Resolution and only a few days later you’ve already broken it???  Sound all too familiar?  Then use these tips to help you stick with your resolution to be healthier in 2007.

 

 

Instead of making one huge resolution or complete lifestyle overhaul, make small plans for physical activity, healthier eating, weight loss or weight management that will lead to BIG results by the end of 2007.

 

Make smaller, specific goals.  Instead of saying that you will start exercising this year, be specific and set a beginning goal of walking 3 days a week for 30 minutes.  This allows you the satisfaction of achieving a goal and it also gives you a starting point to build from for future goals.

Be patient.  Don’t expect your lifelong habits to change overnight.  Just remember that the small changes you make over the year will add up overtime and you will see the results in the end.

Stick with it.  If you waver or fall off of your plan from time to time, don’t feel guilty or as if you have failed.  Immediately start right where you left off with eating healthy and exercising.  It’s okay—one meal or one day of overeating or not exercising will not ruin your weight loss.  However, if you let one meal or day of overeating lead to an entire week, month, and so on of overeating and not exercising, weight gain will occur. 

Take another look.  Evaluate your progress toward your goals.  If your plans or goals need updating and revising in order for you to reach them, then do so. 

Reward yourself.  Just make sure that your rewards are NOT food!  Buy a new CD or DVD, new gym clothes, go to a movie, etc. 

 

 

 

 

 


For more Nutrition Information, contact:  April Stephens, MS, RD, LD, 501-450-3383

Source:  365 Days of Healthy Eating from the American Dietetic Association