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BurntXOrange

Online news & entertainment magazine at UT Austin

BurntXOrange

Online news & entertainment magazine at UT Austin

BurntXOrange

Catering to Your Cravings and Why We Can’t Eat Healthy

Catering to Your Cravings and Why We Can’t Eat Healthy

Angelie Aggarwal June 4, 2024

College students get a bad rap when it comes to managing our nutrition. We either buy too much junk food, spend too much money ordering DoorDash, or go three days without consuming anything other than...

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Austin Fitness Culture: A Disappointment

Caleigh Doucet April 11, 2024

An Ode to Inaccessible Healthy Lifestyles  In America, the wealthy are the gatekeepers of wellness. It’s a story as old as time. Fitness and exercise are metaphorically free. However, beginners...

Physical Signs of Stress

Physical Signs of Stress

Kaitlyn Rouse May 16, 2022

Stress levels are at an all-time high this time of year, especially with final exams right around the corner. Most people experience physical symptoms of stress but they don’t always know how to identify...

How to Consume Social Media In A Healthy Way

How to Consume Social Media In A Healthy Way

Kaitlyn Rouse April 27, 2022

Even though social media intends to connect people from all over the world, it can often make us feel more isolated when consumed in an unhealthy way. It’s so easy to compare yourself to someone else’s...

My Top 5 Favorite Exercises

My Top 5 Favorite Exercises

Briana Martinez December 21, 2021

Keeping active while balancing school and other activities can be challenging, but it’s a great way to decompress and give yourself a moment to not think about anything that’s stressing you out. Here...

Things to Do While Social Distancing

Things to Do While Social Distancing

Courtney Smith March 18, 2020

The past few weeks have been a difficult and often scary time. Between UT’s shift to online classes and the continuously changing state of the Coronavirus (COVID-19), it’s easy to get overwhelmed...

Yoga tips for beginners

Yoga tips for beginners

Courtney Smith February 6, 2020

Although yoga began thousands of years ago in India, there is no denying its popularity and growth in the United States over the past several years. The rapid increase in studios, online classes, and...

a new era of fitness

a new era of fitness

Skyler King February 6, 2020

New technology has revolutionized the way we go about our daily lives. From the comfort of our phones we can consume media, make money transactions and now monitor our fitness. According to Phys.org,...

What To Do About Holiday Blues

What To Do About Holiday Blues

Burnt X December 10, 2019

Ah, Christmas; the most wonderful (chaotic) time of the year. We blast carols the whole month of December as the days grow shorter, consumerism skyrockets, and the pressure of social gatherings thickens....

Women’s Health: 10 Things the Public School System Won’t Tell You

Emily Hyatt November 20, 2019

If you’re a woman, you’ve probably experienced a lot of moments in life that angered you. You say the word “vagina” and people cringe as if you said a bad word. Anytime you show “too much”...

A Beginner’s Guide to Meditation

A Beginner’s Guide to Meditation

Burnt X May 12, 2019

When we think of health today, we often think of physical health. We tend to believe that someone who holds a balanced diet and exercises regularly is in perfect health. While both of these things do...

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From Crisis to Wellness: Mental Health in Communities of Color

March 14, 2019

This panel validated festival-goers who stuck around to learn about mental wellbeing in communities of color, placing an important spotlight on marginalized groups that are otherwise ignored.