Health

  • Clarifying the Butler-purchased insurance plan

    Clarifying the Butler-purchased insurance plan

    Each summer, students find emails in their inbox about the Butler-purchased insurance plan. Enrollment into the plan is automatic, and all but about 350 to 400 students choose to opt out of the plan before the August deadline rolls around. However, for many otherwise uninsured students and international students, waiving the insurance plan is not…

  • New Bon Appetit meal plans offer more variety to students

    New Bon Appetit meal plans offer more variety to students

    Butler University students will have new meal plan options for the upcoming 2019-20 school year. Students not living in a residence hall on campus will have the option to purchase a voluntary meal plan.

  • The tea on positivity

    The tea on positivity

    Negativity is everywhere, and we are so quick to pick apart everything we encounter. When are we going to say that enough is enough and start changing our mentalities for the better?

  • Getting upright: How to set yourself up for a successful day

    Getting upright: How to set yourself up for a successful day

    Here are a few ways you can begin to take advantage of your mornings and set yourself up for a great day.

  • Close-quarter living spaces spreads various illnesses

    ALEXANDRA BODE STAFF REPORTER ABODE@BUTLER.EDU A month and a half ago, students moved into their residences halls, Greek houses, campus apartments and off-campus houses, ready to start the 2013-2014 school year. This means that, for a month and a half, students have been living in close quarters with one another, increasing the risk of health…

  • Nutrition under the microscope

    ALEXANDRA BODE | STAFF REPORTER The Atherton Union Marketplace will feature more nutritional information than in previous years. In 2012 the American College Health Association conducted a survey revealing a high number of students wanted more nutritional information about the food served on campus. Butler has already taken steps in its dining facilities to make…

  • Blue II’s health declines

    TORI FARR Staff Reporter Former Butler University mascot Blue II is doing well despite his recent diagnosis with Cushing’s disease, owner and handler Michael Kaltenmark said. The announcement came through Blue II’s blog and social media accounts on Aug. 1. Cushing’s disease is an irreversible brain disease that causes a tumor to form on the…

  • FOR YOUR HEALTH: Diet drinks increase waist and appetite

    Anyone who’s made a pit stop at McDonald’s has heard it before: “I’ll take two Big Macs, a large fry, a 10-piece chicken nugget, oh, and a diet Coke. I’m trying to watch my weight.” This acceptance of the diet drink as the be-all-end-all solution to weight loss couldn’t be further from the truth. In…

  • For your health: Keeping your New Year’s resolutions

    The freshness of a new year is in the air, and with it come endless possibilities for 2013. Exercising more, eating right, studying harder and staying focused often become center-stage resolutions as the New Year unfolds. Why then do so many resolutions fail? The issue is not the resolve of those trying to improve their…