Avoid the freshman 15: tips from one teen to another

Better Nutrition, Sept, 2007

It's back-to-school season, and you may be sending your college student to the dorms loaded up with toiletries, extra-long sheets, and last-minute parental advice. But it's equally important to ensure that your college student knows how to eat right. Just in time for move-in day, Daphne Oz has penned The Dorm Room Diet Planner, a guide filled with tips and checklist to help students stay healthy.

A college student herself, Oz is the daughter of Mehmet Oz, MD, coauthor of the best selling You: The Owner's Manual and You: On a diet. Her new book provides step-by-step instructions on how her peers can survive college life while avoid a diet of cereal and late-night pizza. "learn to be conscious of what you eat at all times," advises Oz, who shares a few of her favorite steps to college diet success in the circle to the left.