Cafeteria Tray/Obesity Connection

College students don't eat as much when they can't pile the food on

In another case of being green equals living healthier, an AP story passed along to me mentions that colleges are ending the use of cafeteria trays in an effort to save water and energy. In one example, Georgia Tech estimated that it saved 3,000 gallons of water a day when it went tray-less last year. The University of Florida believes that it's saved closed to half a million gallons of water in the last school year. That’s a lot of water. The news item also pointed out that a 25-university study by Aramark, a contractor that provides food services to schools, found that students waste 25-30 percent less food when they’re limited to carrying their plate from buffet line to table.

I don’t think it’s a stretch to assume that students are shoveling a good deal less food down their gullet as well. Where can they carry their dessert cup? How are they going to hold a plate of lasagna and chicken-fried steak? They can’t. And because they can’t and because of the inertia that they need to overcome to go back for seconds, they probably won’t eat that extra 250-400 calories a meal and put on 10 pounds by the end of their first month in the dorms.

The same could happen at those buffet restaurants I see packed on weekends with families gorging on 4,000 calories/tray--wait, that'll never come to pass. Those places make all their money based on how much food their customers can fit on one tray. Forget those places. Enter them at your waistline's peril.

There is a downside to this green trend, though. If the cafeterias go tray-less in Northeastern and Midwestern colleges, the era of using the trays as snow sleds will disappear. Bummer.

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