A secondary message had to do with listening to body signals of hunger and satiety and being able to recognize the difference. The Smoking Mirror, a prevention game developed by two medical student Community Scholars, showed girls what they might look like in 20 years if they had been heavy smokers. Digital photos were taken of one or two girls before the sessions, and through computer technology, the girls were morphed into the future with tobacco stained teeth, excessive wrinkling and skin pallor. Then the students had the opportunity to see the internal changes. The more daring of the girls used Latex gloves to examine the samples for themselves.
Smoking is the number-one cause of preventable cancer.
Unfortunately, one of the fastest growing groups of new smokers is adolescent girls smoking to lose weight, McDonald said. Karen Dyer, exercise specialist at the Kim Dayani Human Performance Center, led the morning exercise circuit. The afternoon sports clinics were led by several women's basketball players including Jenni Benningfield, Venessa Ferragamo, Hillary Hager, Zuzi Klimesova, Ashley McElhiney, Jackie Munch, Kimmie Palmer, Katie Smith, Candice Storey, and Lucy Torres. Colleen Morris, Sara Pacini, Amanda Rice, and Jess Roguski from the women's lacrosse team led clinics as well as members from the nationally top-10 ranked women's tennis team. The girls really look up to them and pay close attention to what they say and do.