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Ickes, Melinda J., and Randall Cottrell. "Health Literacy in College Students." Journal of American College Health. 1 Mar 2010. 58.5: 491-498. Web. 19 Nov 2010. This articles purpose was to study the health literacy of college students. This article proposed a study of college juniors and seniors to determine what their actual health literacy was and what health literacy was expected of them. This study had many factors in their students that they too into consideration, including gender, race, and declared major. The study concluded that over 98% of the college students that they researched had an adequate literacy level.

Objective: The aims of the study were to assess whether women during the first year of college experience (1) significant weight gain; (2) a prospective relation between dietary restraint and weight gain; (3) an increase in disordered eating; and (4) a prospective relation between dietary restraint or concern about the Freshmen 15 (i.e., weight gain of 15 lbs during the freshman year of college) and disordered eating.\n\nMethod\nParticipants were 336 female students in their first year of college who completed questionnaire measures of Body Mass Index (BMI), eating disorder pathology, dietary restraint, body image, and self-esteem.\n\nResults\nParticipants' mean weight gain was approximately 3 lbs (1.5 kg), and among those who gained weight, the mean gain was 7.32 lbs (3.3 kg). Dietary restraint in September did not predict weight change in April, but participants who lost weight reported significantly greater dietary restraint than those participants who gained weight. Eating disorder symptoms increased significantly from September to April. Dietary restraint, concern about the "Freshman 15", and self-esteem in September uniquely predicted EDE-Q Weight and Shape Concern subscale scores in April.\n\nDiscussion\nFemale students in their first year of college gain a small but significant amount of weight, and weight gain was mostly unrelated to dietary restraint. Disordered eating increases during the first year of college and, is predicted by prospective dietary restraint and concerns about weight gain.

Palmer, Lance, et al. "IMPROVING FINANCIAL AWARENESS AMONG COLLEGE STUDENTS: ASSESSMENT OF A FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT PROJECT." College Student Journal 44.3 (2010): 659-676. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 18 Nov. 2010. The article served as a study that was done on college students. It was an intervention that mainly forced college students to track just how they spent their money. The purpose of the experiment was to bring awareness to the students at the end to show them what possible mistakes, or poor expenditures they had made. The study showed that when students tracked how they spent their money, they universally increased their spending knowledge, and made very few careless purchases. When these students actually tracked how they spent their money the study showed that they realized the values that their parents and guardians had taught them.

Boyle, Jennifer, Nicole Larose. "The Personal Beliefs, The Environment and College Students' Exercise and Eating Behaviors." American Journal of Health Studies 23.4 (2008) 195-200. Ebsocohost. Web. 22 Nov. 2010. College students are at risk for overweight/obesity. It was hypothesized that better nutrition and physical activity would be related to healthy environmental perceptions and personal beliefs.Sixty-five percent of American adults are overweight. The greatest increases in overweight and obesity occur in persons between 18-29 years of age.Eating habits are also a problem in both the general population as well as among college students. Only 28% of persons over the age of two are meeting daily recommendations for fruit intake and even fewer 3% are meeting daily recommendations for vegetable intake. College students often exceed the recommended daily limit for saturated fat intake. A study by Racette found that more than half the students in their sample reported eating high-fat fried or fast foods at least three times per week.

Harklau, Linda. "From High School to College: Student Perspectives on Literacy Practices." Journal of Literacy Research 33.1 (2001): 32-70. ERIC. EBSCO. Web. 18 Nov. 2010. This article discribes the transition from high school to college. More specifically it discusses the transition for the women. There was a study that followed women in theirlast months of high school into their first few months of college. This study recorded the effects and emotions of the women as they readjusted to the college life.\n

Luebbers, Mat. "Many College Athletes Failing Sports Nutrition." About Swimming - for Swimming and for Swimmers, Workouts, Swimming Technique, Swimming Pools, Swimming Exercise, Olympic Swimming, Fitness Swimmers. New York Times Company, 11 Jan. 2008. Web. 18 Nov. 2010. .

This articles purpose was to study the health literacy of college students. This article proposed a study of college juniors and seniors to determine what their actual health literacy was and what health literacy was expected of them. This study had many factors in their students that they too into consideration, including gender, race, and declared major. The study concluded that over 98% of the college students that they researched had an adequate literacy level.

Peterson, Sharon, et al. "Positive Changes in Perceptions and Selections of Healthful Foods by College Students After a Short-Term Point-of-Selection Intervention at a Dining Hall." Journal of American College Health 58.5 (2010): 425-431. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 22 Nov. 2010. By putting out flyers, signs, table tents, and numerous other things, these experimenters searched to find the link between these short term items next to healthy food items. They found that after having these out that college students tended to go to the more healthy options when they actually realized what they were. They concluded that not only did this short term effect work but that the college students did not know what their healthy options were and therefore were happy to be notified.

Kicklighter, Jana Regina, et al. "College Freshmen Perceptions of Effective and Ineffective Aspects of Nutrition Education." Journal of American College Health 59.2 (2010): 98-104. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 22 Nov. 2010. Graduate students taught a group of college students more about nutrition and healthy options to eat. Coming out of the experiment students claimed to know more about nutrition and that having a graduate student as their teacher helped them learn. They said this because of their image and likeness to them. The outcome of this experience was a greater understanding of nutrition and advance in this field.

The purpose of this study was to assess the health literacy levels, and the potential importance of healthy literacy, of college students. Ickes, Melinda J., and Randall Cottrell. "Health Literacy in College Students." Journal of American College Health 58.5 (2010): 491-498. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 17 Nov. 2010.

Ickes, Melinda, Randall Cottrell. "Health Literacy in College Students." Journal of American College Health 58.5 (Mar/Apr2010): 491-8. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 18 Nov. 2010. This article is about a study done on college students to test their health literacy. The study tested students ability to recognize and understand health terms and labels.

Jackson, Rebecca A., Tanya R. Berry, and Michael D. Kennedy. "The Relationship Between Lifestyle and Campus Eating Behaviours in Male and Female University Students." College Student Journal 43.3 (2009): 860-871. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 3 Nov. 2010. This article gives a lot of information about college students and the risks that they are taking when they come to a new environment while being on their own. Several tests were taken to determine the difference between males and females and their behaviors towards drinking, eating, and exercising. It does a really good job on separating the genders and showing that the male and female lifestyle drastically changes when they come to college. It shows statistics on how much the cost of a student would spend depending on their physical activity as well. Overall, college can have an extreme impact on a students' life.

Chien-Wen, Lai. "How Financial Attitudes and Practices Influence the Impulsive Buying Behavior of College and University Students." Social Behavior & Personality: An International Journal 38.3 (2010): 373-380. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 18 Nov. 2010. This article shows certain indications, or in other words tell tale signs that many people who have problems with financial spending hold in common. The article has tables that show results on whether or not students had plans on how to spend their money, if they actually kept track of their money, and why they spent their money. The main point of the article was the difference between compulsive, and pre-determined purchases of college students. I also thought that this article would be good because the field work was done on international students. This shows that financial literacy is just not a problem amongst college students in the states. This problem is occurring all over the world and this article shows that.

"American College Health Association-National College Health Assessment Spring 2008 Reference Group Data Report (Abridged): The American College Health Association." Journal of American College Health 57.5 (Mar/Apr2009): 477-88. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 18 Nov. 2010. This article is about a nation survey given to college students about their health. the survey evaluated the students health, their knowledge, risks, and effects on academic performance.

Deshpande, Sameer, Michael Basil and Debra Basil. "Factors Influencing Healthy Eating Habits Among College Students." Health Marketing Scholarly 26.2 (2009) 145-164. Ebsocohost. Web. 22 Nov. 2010. Poor eating habits are an important public health issue that has large health and economic implications. Many food preferences are established early, but because people make more and more independent eating decisions as they move through adolescence, the transition to independent living during the university days is an important event. Numerous studies have shown that college students often have poor eating habits. Students tend to eat fewer fruits and vegetables on a daily basis\nand report high intake of high-fat, high-calorie foods.To study the phenomenon of food selection, the heath belief model was applied to predict the likelihood of healthy eating among university students. Numerous studies have shown that college students often have poor eating habits.

Fineran, Kerrie, et al. "The Barnum Effect and Chaos Theory: Exploring College Student ACOA Traits." Journal of College Student Psychotherapy 24.1 (2010): 17-31. ERIC. EBSCO. Web. 18 Nov. 2010. The text both agrees with and opposes the idea that adul tchildren of alcoholics are a distinct group. Two-hundred college students were placed into one of the four categories: Adult Children of Alcoholics, Adverse Childhood Event Group, Alcohol and Adverse Childhood Event Group and the No Adverse Event Group. These students completed tests that measured drug and alcohol use.

Dunn, Debra, Lori W. Turner, and George Denny. "Nutrition Knowledge and Attitudes of College Athletes." Sport Journal 10.4 (2007): 45-52. SPORTDiscus with Full Text. EBSCO. Web. 17 Nov. 2010. This article is about research that studied the nutritional knowledge of college athletes. Despite popular belief that college athletes are well aware of nutrition, this research indicates that the nutritional knowledge of college athletes is minimal. The research was conducted on student athletes at Southern university. The student athletes were tested on of current dietary recommendations, sources of nutrients, healthy food choices, and the relationship between diet and disease processes. The research showed that majority of athletes at Southern university had healthy attitudes about eating behaviors, however had little knowledge.

Storch, Jason, and Matthew Ohlson. "Student services and student athletes in community colleges." New Directions for Community Colleges 2009.147 (2009): 75-84. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 17 Nov. 2010. This article is how student college athletes receive additional to help in their academics. The article points out why these support services are needed, long with how they benefit the student athlete.

Robb, Cliff A., and Deanna L. Sharpe. "Effect of Personal Financial Knowledge on College Students' Credit Card Behavior." Financial Counseling & Planning 20.1 (2009): 25-43. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 17 Nov. 2010. This journal is based on a survey done on almost 7000 college students. The purpose was to see how they spent their credit card money, and what knowledge, if any, they possessed. Financial knowledge was huge in this study when it came to smart spending. However, the article also says that many college students that had a high level of intelligence when it came to financial knowledge still had large credit card balances. This journal article shows that even people who are educated in financial literacy still can have major credit card debts and problems with spending.

Lloyd-Richardson, Elizabeth. "The relationship between alcohol use, eating habits and weight change in college freshmen." Eating Behaviors 9.4 (2008): 504-8. Ohio Link. Web. 8 Nov. 2010.\n\nA group of reasearchers preformed a study that aimed to improve understanding of how alcohol consumption in college freshmen affects eating patterns before, during, and after drinking, as well as its relation to body weight change. They used \ntwo hundred eighty-two college freshmen (61% female; 59% Caucasian) completed measures of alcohol use, measured body mass index (BMI), and eating and activity habits before, during and following drinking episodes. Students were categorized by drinking status (non-drinker, low-risk, and moderate/high-risk) in order to explore group differences. There results were that moderate risk drinkers were more likely than low-risk drinkers to report increases in appetite after drinking, with nearly half of students reporting overeating and making unhealthy food choices following drinking. Moderate-risk drinkers also demonstrated significant increases in 1st semester BMI change, relative to non-drinkers and low-risk drinkers.\n\n\n\n

Dryden, Jim. "Study finds most students gain weight during early college years." Newsroom. Washington University, St. Louis, 5 September 2005. Web. 8 Nov. 2010. \n\nReporting in the Journal of American College Health, the research team found that about 70 percent of students gained a significant amount of weight between the start of college and the end of sophomore year. One researcher states that these results are not surprising to him because normally eating habits incollege students are not great. He also states that most don't eat five fruits and vegetables per day, and many don't get enough exercise. The average weight gain was nine pounds, but why they gained the weight isn't completely understood. \n

Steinbach, Paul. "Food for Thought: Nutrition Education Lacking among College Athletes." Athletic Business - the Leading Resource for Athletic, Fitness and Recreation Professionals. Apr. 2010. Web. 18 Nov. 2010. .