Within the past decade, we as a society have become increasingly aware of what we eat and how much of those foods we should consume in a day, week, month or even year. The diet craze seemed to have permeated American culture only within the last 40 years, but really it began much earlier with fads such as the Cabbage Soup diet, which consisted of only drinking soup for a week, as well cleanses and quick ways to burn off fat. In my experience, trying to avoid the freshman 15 (a myth told to college students in which they gain 15 pounds over the course of their first year) played a huge factor in my eating and lifestyle choices my first two years of college. It led me to make some choices that I believed were "healthy" but really this decision was damaging to my body since I denied it the nutrients it needed for me to function daily.