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Wellness Wednesday: How to stay healthy during Thanksgiving

The holiday season is always a little tough on your waistband. This year stay healthy by following these four tips:

1. Participate in a local turkey trot. Many communities host turkey trots the morning of Thanksgiving to help you feel a little less guilty about eating a piece of pie at dinner. Chase and Whole Foods Market are hosting their annual turkey trot on Thanksgiving Day morning starting at Whole Foods in Upper Arlington.

A cartoon of a turkey exercising

2. Eat breakfast. Skipping breakfast to save room for the bigger meals of the day can actually be more harmful than helpful by causing you to overeat at lunch or dinner. Eating a small meal in the morning can help you control your appetite later in the day.

3. Use a smaller plate. Research shows using a smaller plate can help you eat less or feel the need to be a clean plater.

4. Skip seconds. Try to wait at least 20 minutes for your body to recognize that you’re full, before going back for more. What’s Thanksgiving without leftovers anyway?

If you are going to be on campus for Thanksgiving, you can try out these tips at the 24th Annual Ohio State Thanksgiving Dinner. The dinner will take place in the Archie Griffin Grand Ballroom here in the Ohio Union and will have a seatings at 11:45 a.m. and 2 p.m. Tickets will be available after November 16 at 100 Oxley Hall, the Hale Black Cultural Center and the Information Desk in the Ohio Union. For more details, visit the Office of International Affairs website. Subscribe below to the sOUrce for more Wellness Wednesday articles.

 

Student Org Spotlight: Buckeye Hackers

The 2015 Hackathon Logo

The Ohio Union is excited to host its first overnight Hackathon on November 14. OHI/O Hackathon is an annual event hosted by Buckeye Hackers and this year will be taking place in the Archie Griffin Grand Ballroom. Undergraduate and graduate students will be designing, building and demonstrating software to a live audience of students, faculty and tech company representatives. Over $5,000 in prizes will be given away. Participants create teams of 2 – 4 students and then come up with a project. Projects are judged on technical difficulty, creativity, usefulness and presentation. There will also be a variety of “Tech Talks” given throughout the event by tech student organizations. Anyone is welcome to come check out the showcase of programs at 2 P.M. Sunday November 15.

A graphic showing a number breakdown for the Hackathon

All of this information and more can be found at hack.osu.edu. For more information about student organizations here at Ohio State, follow the sOUrce for monthly Student Org Spotlights!

 

Voting at the Ohio Union

A photo of a voting stickerTuesday, November 3 marks the general election for 2015. Voting will begin at 6:30 a.m. and continue until 7:30 p.m. The Great Hall Meeting Room here at the Ohio Union will serve as one of many polling locations for the Columbus area. Check your voter registration information to find your assigned precinct. More information is also available on the Franklin County Board of Elections Website.

Before you vote be sure to make sure you have the proper identification that is needed. For example, if you registered to vote in Ohio but maintain residency in another state your driver’s license may not be enough to vote. Click here to find out more about proper identification for voting.

For more voting resources or if you’d like to learn more about the candidates or issues on this year’s ballot visit the websites below to become more informed.

 

Photo Attributed to Ohio Secretary of State

We Have a Winner!

This week we had a Brutus Selfie Contest in honor of Brutus’ 50th birthday. Thank you to all who participated and congratulations to our winner Mikayla Simon! Mikayla posted her selfie with Bronze Brutus and received the most likes on Instagram.

Mikaylay's winning photo

 
The prize for the contest was a miniature Brutus statue. Here she poses with her prize along with it’s bronze namesake. Mikayla poses with her prize

Be sure to check out our post about Brutus’ birthday written by the nut himself! Don’t forget to follow the sOUrce for all the information you need about what’s happening in the Ohio Union.

BuckeyeThon Fashion Show

Runway of BuckeyeThon Fashion ShowCouldn’t make it to New York or Paris for Fashion Week this year? No problem! Come join us on November 3rd at 7 p.m. for BuckeyeThon’s Fashion Show for the Kids.  “This year’s Fashion Show features styles from a number of local businesses, giving students and guests the experience of a night on the town in the Short North without having to leave campus,” says Courtney Thomson, director of Marketing and Communications for BuckeyeThon.

There will also be special guest performances by a few Ohio State student organizations between sets. Not only will you be supporting a great cause but you also won’t be leaving empty handed either. At the end of the show, BuckeyeThon will pass out grab bags with special products provided by Fashion Show for the Kids sponsors.

Kids pose in the BuckeyeThon Fashion Show

Tickets are on sale now for only $5 and available through purchase from BuckeyeThon members, models, team captains or on the Buckeyethon website.

“The incredible thing about the fashion show is it really gives kids a chance to feel like rock stars!” Courtney said. “These kids who have been through so much get to go up on stage and ‘strut their stuff’ while being cheered on by a thousand students at the greatest university in the country… who wouldn’t love that?”

Be sure to buy your tickets soon because you won’t want to miss out on cheering for these wonderful kids and supporting a great cause.

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