I'm guilty. You are guilty. We are all guilty. Whether we do it now or did it in the past, we've all eaten frozen dinners at some point in our lives. If you haven't, then you are a very lucky person and I applaud you. I'm not just talking about eating frozen dinners, but I'm talking about eating any type of food that has been processed. Processed food can range from our frozen dinners to the type of food we eat at any fast-food restaurant. The industrialized food industry has somehow crept into our daily eating habits without many of us realizing it. Even if we are simple college students, we eat or could eat industrialized foods constantly. I'm sure you've heard of the infamous "Freshman 15," which is where in your first year A typical first-year college student, as described by OSU research, often skips meals and doesn't get the recommended amount of fruits and vegetables ( "News Communications and Research", 2011). Students are often too busy with homework to sit down and eat a proper meal, leading them to prefer "easy foods," which is often ramen. Either college students choose the easiest option, which is often ramen, or they consistently eat the wrong type of food. However, not only do college students do it, but many other people do it too, thus creating our horrible culture of eating industrialized foods. I have friends who are completely different from Denison. My best friend, Aileen, actually attends the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, which has a completely different environment than Denison. She states, “Urbana is almost like a small town where sometimes we have to take a bus to get to a class that is on the other side of campus” (Lopez). Denison isn't exactly a city. I like to think of it more as a community than anything else. It doesn't take long to get from one side of campus to the other. Unfortunately, he doesn't know much about the food served on his campus, so I can't talk much about it, but I can still tell you what a college student could do to help make the change. But first let's learn a little history. According to some of my friends, their parents buy more unprocessed and local foods rather than the usual processed foods (Mei, Murray). There may also be children, or teenagers, whose parents simply don't let them eat at a fast-food restaurant often enough. Unfortunately, according to the table below, McDonald's appears to be the fast food chain that caters most to young people (see Table 1). Nowadays, many parents tend to take their children to a fast-food restaurant simply because it is easier and faster to order food rather than cook an entire meal (Murray). Not only is eating out, or at least takeout, efficient, but it's also less stressful for parents. Children can tend to be very picky eaters, or at least most of them are. My younger cousin for example refuses to eat anything green unless it's a cucumber. As we move further and further into our industrialized food culture, we must consider what we are risking in the long term. There are actually many different things that not only college students but the entire population could do to help reduce long-term risks. First, it would be to stop eating so frequently at these fast-food restaurants. I know many of my peers, who I went to high school with, often went to McDonald's for breakfast before school started. Luckily, in Denison, it's not that common to go to McDonald's for breakfast; probably because the