Lest aimage of the nutritional content of the chicken tenders I used to eat at Bear's Den. If the tenders are a popular meal option for you, I suggest not reading any further. Somehow, 5 pieces of fried chicken contain over 1200 calories, 74 grams of fat (114% of our recommended daily amount) and 255 milligrams of cholesterol (85%). So in essence if you eat a full order of chicken tenders you shouldn't eat anything else for the rest of the day.

Dining services has a website where you can go to read up on the nutritional content of your favorite late-night WashU snack foods. Like the Mozzarella Sticks? 5 sticks give you half of your daily saturated fat, which is surprisingly low considering that they are deep fried cheese. Even things that sound healthy are not good for you. A small chicken caesar salad, consisting of chicken, lettuce, parmesan cheese, and bread, has 15 grams of fat. 15. In a salad. And being a vegetarian doesn't help you out either. Vegetarian Linguini at Small Group Housing will give you 1/4 of your daily fat, all of your daily cholesterol, and 746 calories. Oddly enough, the french fries contain no fat, which means next time you slip on your tight black pants, grab your bottled water, and reach for your salad or pasta at BD, maybe you should be ordering up a full order of greasy fries.

The one thing I've gathered from all of this is that our school food, which may be ranked #1 in the country, is not the least bit nutritious despite their constant attempts to put up wellness posters to promote healthy eating habits. It's bad enough that most students don't realize that the salad may be healthy but the mayonaise in the dressing is not, or that the fruit smoothies contain 600 calories, but when the school does absolutely nothing to inform everyone except publish the information on a badly-designed website then there is definitely something wrong. But never fear, the news is not all bad. The upside to all these high-fat options is that wacky Atkins Dieters have plenty of choices for dinner. Chicken philly anyone?