Health is major concern all people on the planet share. A healthy lifestyle not only is beneficial to the physical health of a person but its benefits can be seen in different areas of their life. Improvements to health can have reciprocal benefits. This means fixing a faulty health system will have a positive impact on their overall well-being.

One of the biggest ways people can improve their health is by examining the food they eat. With that said young people, especially college students may have the best intentions regarding their health but don’t always execute accordingly. The best way to fix this is, change the system in which students (specifically ones here at University of Wisconsin-Madison) make nutritional choices daily. Naturally putting a target and trying to fix the system through the residence dining halls.

There are many problems to be solved regarding health in relation to students and their life in the residence halls. There will be a couple in which I intend to focus on: awareness of food consumption and easy access to information on ways to improve a healthy lifestyle.

I intend to attack the problem from different angles, hoping that will result in a further reach. In my project I hope to propose a plan in which students can have direct access to their food consumption and its specific nutritional information in relation to what they buy via their WisCard. This makes it easy and not time intensive for students to go (probably through a computer program) to track the food they consume and the effects it has, be it positive or negative.

I also intend to provide students with direct access to tips on little things they can do to improve overall health and physical well-being. This will be small things, but hopefully they can make a large impact. This will be attempted through posters giving little tips on what a student can do to improve their health (i.e. Walk up the stairs instead of taking an elevator once a day). Improvements for healthy living will become captioned on the website with student food intake as well.

These are little things I hope to fix in the system (where students are not able to reach their potential health) which I hope will make a difference. It may not change the world. It won’t even change the behavior of most of the student body but if it makes a difference to a few then something will be accomplished.