Health
Five Easy Tips: Get excited about exercising
Weight lifting helps build endurance and burn extra calories. | Aisha Bouderbaden/The Daily Cougar Getting motivated to exercise can be especially difficult for college students. Between going to classes, working, studying and having a...
Minding the sun with a summer bronze
Undeclared junior Frances Silva and accounting senior Anay Silva enjoy a shady day on campus before Houston heat hits again with a mean streak. | Minh Dam/The Daily Cougar As the weather warms up...
Gender Talk discusses contraceptives
Creative writing senior Joy Lester demonstrated to the group how to properly use a condom. | Anthresia McWashington/The Daily Cougar Sexually active women are in danger of two things: sexually transmitted diseases and pregnancy. “I...
Students get tools to help them rock their bodies
“Dogs Don’t Eat Eggrolls,” a routine that showed the progress of how one individual unravels from the rest of the group Maritza Rodriguez/ The Daily Cougar From dancing to yoga, students learned there are...
Media and body image
Students were shown a video that showed how much editing goes into the images of beauty that are portrayed in the media. From extensive makeup and photoshop, the ideal beauty is entirely fictional...
Nutrition is beneficial to grades and health
When students spend so much of their time going to class, working or staying up late to study, sometimes there’s never enough time to stop and cook a decent meal. Some students end up turning...
Yoga helps students flex their brain
Yoga is reported to help students focus. | Wikimedia Commons The life of a university student is potentially a very demanding and stressful one. Students face all sorts of challenges with juggling school, work and...
Students dependency on the buzz of coffee increases
Students give in to temptation at Cougar Grounds, near the Hilton Hotel. Studies have shown an increase in the number of college students dependent on coffee. | Monica Tso/The Daily Cougar The percentage of...
Gender talk battles the binge
Held every Wednesday in the Women’s Resource Center, gender talks welcome new and familiar faces on a regular basis. | Maritza Rodriguez/ The Daily Cougar Drinking is a large part of many college and...
Weight loss: then and now
With this article, I conclude the story of my weight loss journey, which began in 2010 at the end of my first year at UH. I must give special thanks to the UH Wellness...
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