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This hormone, often called the "sleep hormone", regulates the sleep-wake cycle.
What is melatonin?
Prolonged stress can suppress this system, making the body more susceptible to illness.
What is the immune system?
This is the percentage of students who skip breakfast, impacting academic performance (especially in English and Math)?
What is 48%?
Exercise increases the production of these 'feel-good' memories in the brain, which can improve mood.
What are endorphins?
There are 3 quiet places on campus where students can destress, breathe fresh air, and calm down.
What are Hart House courtyard, Philosopher's Walk, and UC Courtyard (accept any 3 spots)?
This percentage of college students reports poor sleep quality.
What is 60%?
According to the 2019 Canadian CHA survey, over 70% of students felt this mental health challenge at least once in the past year.
What is anxiety?
A vitamin you obtain from eating citrus fruit, which improves one's immune system.
What is Vitamin C?
This many minutes of exercise can boost your mood for 12 hours.
What is 20 minutes?
What is NAVI?
Caffeine can improve alertness, but having it within how many hours of bedtime can disrupt sleep?
What is 6 hours?
The average increase to your heart rate (in bpm) when you're under acute stress.
What is 20 bpm?
This percentage of university students eat fewer than 5 servings of fruits and vegetables (the recommended amount) daily.
What is 95 percent?
What is 150 minutes?
The engineering wellness initiative pairs upper-year mentors with first-year students to guide academics and university life.
What is EngSucccess?
Long-term poor sleep is linked to lower performance in this part of the brain, critical for problem-solving.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
The percentage of people who say that listening to music reduces their stress levels.
What is 60 to 70 percent?
Instant noodles are high in this mineral, which can contribute to bloating and high blood pressure.
What is sodium?
This UofT facility offers students free gym access.
What is the Athletic Centre / Hart House / Goldring?
There is a site with a collection of engineering professors' stories about learning from failure.
What is Skule Mental Wellness site
The mental/age difference between those who sleep 5 or fewer hours per night and those who get 7-8 hours is equivalent to how many years?
What is 2 years?
This therapeutic strategy is widely used by universities and is present at events such as Fr!osh week and Exam Jam.
What are therapy dogs?
This student-run cafe has offered the Skule community quick meal and snack options since 2006.
What is Hard Hat Cafe?
Aerobic exercise has been shown to increase the voume of this brain region, which plays a key role in learning and memory.
What is the hippocampus?
This 24/7 confidential helpline available to Ontario post-secondary students provides immediate mental-health support and campus resource referrals.
What is Good2Talk?