THE UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN’S MAIN CAMPUS IS SITUATED ON TREATY 6 TERRITORY AND THE HOMELAND OF THE MÉTIS.

THE UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN’S MAIN CAMPUS IS SITUATED ON TREATY 6 TERRITORY AND THE HOMELAND OF THE MÉTIS.

obesity

  • Fruit beverages linked to ballooning waistlines

    By October 5, 2012

    Student weight gain is rampant and what we drink plays a mjor role. The main problem isn’t drinking beer. It isn’t even pop. Look instead to fruit drinks.

  • University of Saskatchewan joins battle against childhood obesity

    By August 25, 2012

    The Saskatchewan Blue Cross invested $1-million in the University of Saskatchewan that will enable the College of Kinesiology to adopt the international Mind, Exercise, Nutrition, Do It (MEND) program this September.

  • Fat happiness: social activism movement Fat Panic! sees more of a social problem, and less of a medical one

    By March 26, 2012

    As a child, Kalamity Hildebrandt was put on diet pills by her doctor in order to lose weight. By age nine she was bulimic, which progressed to the point where she was throwing up blood in her teenage years. By 19, she could barely function emotionally in the world because of her overwhelming fear of harassment.

    Hildebrandt’s view on being fat was changed by fat activism, the social justice movement that believes that, just like any other discrimination, oppression of people because of their weight is unacceptable and should be fought against.