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Student Wellness Promotion offers nutrition, weight
management, and body image programs and services to
assist students with increasing their long-term health
and wellbeing. We understand that weight is an important
indicator of potential chronic health issues such as
heart disease and diabetes.
We also understand the important role that environment,
attitudes, beliefs and behaviors play in the successful
attainment of a healthy weight, particularly in a
culture that is obsessed with thinness but that is also
facing an obesity epidemic.
Therefore, our approach to weight management is
holistic, incorporating physical, psychological and
emotional approaches to developing a healthier body, a
healthier relationship with food and a more positive
self-image.
Registered
Dietitian (Free)
- Available by appointment - call the Thomson
Student Health Center @ 777-3175
- First time appointments are 1 hour
- Each additional appointment is 1/2 hour
- Keep a list of what you eat for a couple of days
and take to your appointment.
Deborah Zippel, Registered Dietitian, works with Student Health
Services and USC Athletics. She will meet
with you to discuss your personal dietary needs, and
addresses a range of needs including but not limited
to developing a healthier nutritional plan for
general wellness or a medical condition,
establishing a nutritional plan specific to athletic
performance/goals, or working toward recovery from
eating disorders. In addition to serving as part of
the medical team within Student Health Services, she
is also a member of the USC Eating Disorder
Multidisciplinary Team. She is also available to
give presentations to classes and student groups by
contacting her at 777-0742.
Eating
Disorder Multidisciplinary Team (Free)
This team of professionals at USC is
comprised of representatives from the Counseling & Human
Development Center, Student Wellness Promotion, the
Thomson Student Health Center medical providers and the
Registered Dietitian. They work as a team to assist
students with recovery from eating disorders and address
body image/eating disorder issues on campus using a
holistic approach including education, prevention and
treatment. For more information about this team, please
contact Student Wellness Promotion at 576-9393 or
click
here for a virtual brochure.
EnLighten Up! Weight Management Program
This program takes a holistic
approach to healthy weight management. Stressing the
importance of the connection between weight and health,
this program aims to help students reach and/or maintain
a weight and body fat percentage that is within optimal
range for them. For their initial meeting, students make
an appointment with a health educator who will guide
them through goal setting and introduce them to the
additional programs and services on campus that are part
of the program. Follow-up appointments are scheduled to
monitor progress and motivation. The program includes
the following services:
- Exercise Consultation
- % Body Fat Analysis Screening
- Blood Pressure Screening
- Cholesterol Screening
- Consultation with the Counseling & Human
Development Center
- Grocery Store Tour
- Smoking Cessation class (if appropriate)
- Massage Therapy
To schedule your appointment, contact Student
Wellness Promotion at 576-9393.
Grocery Store Tours (Free)
This service is open to students, faculty and staff and
offered on a monthly basis. Guided by the Registered
Dietitian and our health education staff, participants
learn how to:
- navigate the grocery store
- where in the store to locate the healthier foods
- tricks used by food manufacturers
- how to decipher and interpret nutrition labels
For scheduling information, contact Student Wellness
Promotion at 576-9393. Our next grocery store will be held Tuesday, March 25th at 4 pm at the Gamecock Bi-Lo on Devine Street.
Body Image Awareness Week
Utilizing the annual theme as determined by the National
Eating Disorder Association, this week of events held in
late February is designed to raise awareness about
eating disorders, the impact on personal health and
academic success, the affect on friends/family, tips on
how to help a friend, and resources available for
recovery and assistance.
Events held annually include:
- Eating Disorder Assessment Survey – provided to
students to assess possible signs of an eating
disorder and appropriate referral to resources on
campus.
- Personal Accounts Panel – students in recovery
tell their personal stories while clinical
psychologists offer information about the
complexities of eating disorders. A Question and
Answer session occurs to help audience members
better understand the issues.
- Classroom and Group Presentations – faculty and
student groups can schedule a presentation for their
class, student organization meeting or residence
hall to learn more about eating disorders, how to
help a friend, and campus resources.
Events held in previous years:
- Desserts and Documentaries – Student Wellness
Promotion partnered with a Media Arts film class to
create short documentaries around the theme “Be
Comfortable in your Genes.” The documentaries were
unveiled to the campus at a presentation where
desserts and beverages were served as refreshments.
Messages about cultural and gender differences
around body image, developing healthy relationships
with food and how to develop a positive self-image
were highlighted.
Click here to view a slideshow
- Skinny Jeans Day – Students donated their “skinny
jeans” to charity in an effort to release themselves
of the pressure to fit into jeans that may not be
comfortable or the right size for them and to enable
students to see that the goal is to be healthy and
fit, not skinny.
- No Diet Day – this event was designed to ask
students to take a day off from “dieting”. It
focused on sending messages about the dangers of fad
dieting and a dieting mentality. Students were
encouraged to view food as a way to nourish and
sustain the body. Campus resources to assist
students with weight concerns were shared.
For more information about body image and eating
disorders, visit
www.NationalEatingDisorders.org
For information about how to help a student at USC
who concerns you, contact the Counseling and Human
Development Center at 777-5223.
For more information about the Body Image Awareness
Week campaign or to schedule a presentation, contact
Student Wellness Promotion at 576-9393.
Additional Resources
See the new food guide pyramid at
http://www.mypyramid.gov/
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