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Doing what you love or loving what you do? | A Room With a View

Antonia Lehnert October 18, 2022
When weighing career paths one can’t help but hear Confucius’s aphorism echo in their brain: “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” But there are many convincing counterarguments to turning passions into paychecks. 
Haley Alvarez-Lauto | DFP Staff

BU and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad, dining plans | EDITORIAL

Editors September 23, 2022
One unanimous complaint unites Boston University's student population: the call for more dining plan options. 
A bento box. Yvonne writes about how the portable Japanese meal boxes are an expression of love. COURTESY OF PEI WEI VIA SOCIETY19

Japanese bento boxes: what they have taught me

Yvonne Tang November 10, 2021
I have learned much from tuning into this small part of Japanese culture.
oranges at a farmers market in los angeles

BU’s Sargent College, Nutrition Club discuss healthy eating

Molly Farrar March 14, 2021
A Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences seminar Thursday helped guide students on mindful, healthy eating and meal planning.
Basket of gala apples

New community gardens planned for Mattapan, East Boston

Taylor Brokesh March 9, 2021
The pair of gardens will follow two different models of urban farming: one will be a food forest, the other a community farm.
Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

Intentional Evolution: Learn to love breakfast

Samantha Elizondo March 5, 2021
Whether to reduce stress, make an Instagram-worthy smoothie bowl or simply start your morning off right, making breakfast for yourself every morning is a healthy habit.
Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

Let Your Hair Down: It’s time to rethink the way we view weight loss and habit formation

Hannah Bohn February 23, 2021
Everyone deserves to feel comfortable in their own skin. We are all worthy of moving freely throughout the world without feeling physically constrained by a negative relationship with food and our bodies.
Demonstrators in front of a Roxbury police station, protesting police brutality. On Wednesday, Boston University held a Day of Collective Engagement to encourage faculty and students to have conversations about race. LAURYN ALLEN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Faculty, students spend day engaging in multi-faceted conversations on race

Cameron Morsberger June 24, 2020
BU hosted a “Day of Collective Engagement: Racism and Antiracism, Our Realities and Our Roles” Wednesday to encourage campus-wide conversation about racism. 
A recent study found that Massachusetts ranks 27th nationally in childhood obesity, with limited access to healthy meals cited as one of the main causes. YICHEN MA/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Massachusetts middle of the pack in adolescent obesity rates

Chloe Liu October 18, 2019
Massachusetts has the 27th highest rate of obesity in 10-17 year olds and the fourth lowest rate of obesity in adults, according to recent statistics.
Fitness Tips For Average Chicks: The truth about coffee

Fitness Tips For Average Chicks: The truth about coffee

Grace Hagerty November 8, 2017

Caffeine — I drink a lot of it. On weekdays, I have probably two coffees a day. On special occasions, like the annual release of the Pumpkin Spice Latte or Starbucks’ holiday collection, I might have...

Author and journalist Nicholas Kristof will speak about public health Thursday at the Tsai Performance Center. PHOTO BY WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM/WIKIMEDIA

Panel to address media’s role in feeding global nutrition movement

Olivia Deng April 30, 2015

As children grow up, a lot can affect the people that they grow up to be. Most of that, though, depends on the sort of nutrition they receive as they do so. On Thursday, Boston University will host a...

Boston University Nutrition Club members make healthy pizza as part of National Nutrition Month. PHOTO COURTESY OF SARAH WU

With ‘healthy pizza,’ BU Nutrition Club makes eating well look easy, cheesy

Betsy Henriquez March 18, 2015

As spring break comes to an end, summer rapidly approaches and the end-of-semester slump sets in, the Boston University Nutrition Club sees the perfect opportunity to continue its efforts to promote...

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