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Freshman 15
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Freshman 15
A popular term for a ‘rite of passage’ affecting many American students in the first—freshman—year of college or university in which they live away from home. Food consumption often becomes more erratic and the diet more indiscriminate than is more typical of relatively scheduled and balanced meals of home life with their parents. The number 15 refers to the pounds gained during this period


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Freshman fifteen is the tendency to gain weight during college days Colleges students have ample opportunities to eat generally overeat than they usually do Freshman fifteen is the tendency to gain weight during college days.
 
 
 
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