2008 Woodie Awards
Taking control of your health
Campus Wellness Challenge hits Valsetz
Laura Gage
Issue date: 2/15/08 Section: Headlines
In addition to the new Campus Wellness Challenge program started by Western's Student Health Center, there is now a new health program being created in Valsetz that aims to further help students take control of their health.
Sarah Weber is a registered dietician who splits time between Valsetz and the Student Health Center. She visits Western on Fridays and spends the morning working in Valsetz. Her new project aims to give students greater amounts of information about what they are eating.
Weber is using an online database to collect information about the food being served in Western's cafeteria. This database helps her to catalogue all types of food that Valsetz could be serving on any given day, anything from apples to chicken club sandwiches.
The eventual goal of this project is to compile information about the entire menu offered at Valsetz so that it can be made available to students before, making decisions about what to eat. Information will be offered online with the now available menu prior to all meals. Students will be able to track their food consumption online with the Campus Wellness Challenge -an overall wellness tracker premiered last month by the Health and Counseling center available on the WOU Portal.
While at Valsetz students can keep track of the calorie consumption with detailed nutrition descriptions posted next to available food items. Weber also plans to compile a common allergies and list this information next to menu items as well.
Michael Ellis, the Programming Analyst Manager of Western's Computer Services, is in charge of moving Weber's body of work onto the internet it is compiled. Estimates on when the project will be finished are still tentative, but the current estimate according to Ellis is some time during fall term of 2008.
During the rest of her week, Weber can be found in Corvallis working as a nutritionist, a physical therapy aid and personal trainer. Weber is available for students as a personal health guide when she spends her Friday afternoons in the Health Center. She asks that students who want her help keep a detailed account of their intake as well as fitness level, so she can better suggest lifestyle changes that would promote better health. •
Sarah Weber is a registered dietician who splits time between Valsetz and the Student Health Center. She visits Western on Fridays and spends the morning working in Valsetz. Her new project aims to give students greater amounts of information about what they are eating.
Weber is using an online database to collect information about the food being served in Western's cafeteria. This database helps her to catalogue all types of food that Valsetz could be serving on any given day, anything from apples to chicken club sandwiches.
The eventual goal of this project is to compile information about the entire menu offered at Valsetz so that it can be made available to students before, making decisions about what to eat. Information will be offered online with the now available menu prior to all meals. Students will be able to track their food consumption online with the Campus Wellness Challenge -an overall wellness tracker premiered last month by the Health and Counseling center available on the WOU Portal.
While at Valsetz students can keep track of the calorie consumption with detailed nutrition descriptions posted next to available food items. Weber also plans to compile a common allergies and list this information next to menu items as well.
Michael Ellis, the Programming Analyst Manager of Western's Computer Services, is in charge of moving Weber's body of work onto the internet it is compiled. Estimates on when the project will be finished are still tentative, but the current estimate according to Ellis is some time during fall term of 2008.
During the rest of her week, Weber can be found in Corvallis working as a nutritionist, a physical therapy aid and personal trainer. Weber is available for students as a personal health guide when she spends her Friday afternoons in the Health Center. She asks that students who want her help keep a detailed account of their intake as well as fitness level, so she can better suggest lifestyle changes that would promote better health. •
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