It is hard to go anywhere without being encouraged to eat healthily. The media is constantly feeding us information on the damage we are doing to our bodies by living an unhealthy lifestyle but eating well is costly and time-consuming. For students, the reality is that it’s just not practical.
Buying vegetables can be worth its while if it is in bulk but if it is left more than a few days, they start to go off and smell really bad. The last thing you want to face when you’re up at half seven in the morning for a seminar or lecture, is opening the fridge and getting hit in the face with the smell of rotting cabbage.
The problem doesn’t even lie in how easily it is to access unhealthy food like take-aways and fast-food restaurants but the price of healthy meals and snacks.
Fresh fruit is highly priced, even on offer, the price of a packet of seven strawberries and couple of grapes can get you either two pizzas, endless packets of noodles or pasta to last you a couple of days. When you’re a student, meals are a lot more sufficient than a healthy snack that will last you about 10 minutes in total.
The constant nagging and patronising from how unhealthy students are is endless. But before we are criticised for our unhealthy ways, surely the practicality of the situation should be considered.
What do you think?
Sophie DiMauro 