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    • Alter Your Energy
      Alter Your Energy
    • Winter Skin Survival Guide
      Winter Skin Survival Guide
    • Rise Above Your Station
      Rise Above Your Station
    • Recipes
  • Entertainment
    • Welcome to Derry: A New Chapter for an Old Fear
      Welcome to Derry: A New Chapter for an Old Fear
    • GAP’s “Give Your Gift” Holiday Campaign
      GAP’s “Give Your Gift” Holiday Campaign
    • Christmas Craze: The Starbucks Bearista Cup
      Christmas Craze: The Starbucks Bearista Cup
  • Campus Culture
    • Students Support Peers Amid SNAP Uncertainty
      Students Support Peers Amid SNAP Uncertainty
    • Virtual Reality Showcase
      Virtual Reality Showcase
    • Greek Sing 2025 Recap
      Greek Sing 2025 Recap
    • THON
    • The Single Girls of State
    • Features
    • Events
  • Fashion
    • What Are You Wearing to the End of the World?
      What Are You Wearing to the End of the World?
    • 2025 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Red Carpet Looks
      2025 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Red Carpet Looks
    • Wrong Pants Theory
      Wrong Pants Theory
  • Self-Improvement
    • Unbuckling Your Chastity Belt
      Unbuckling Your Chastity Belt
    • Are You Who Said You’d Be? 
      Are You Who Said You’d Be? 
    • Selective Sinners
      Selective Sinners
    • College Crisis
  • This Just In
    • The People’s Voices
      The People’s Voices
    • NYC Marathon 2025
      NYC Marathon 2025
    • Zohran Mamdani and The Politics of Social Media
      Zohran Mamdani and The Politics of Social Media

Alexis Desrosiers

Alexis Desrosiers is a web and print writer for Valley magazine. A senior in the Nutrition and Dietetics field, Alexis is an avid promoter on eating healthy and staying active. She is minoring in Psychology, and hopes to get her masters in Functional Medicine. You can find Alexis at either the gym, the library, or in her bed watching Grey's and eating a huge bag of popcorn.

Beauty & Health

Eat This, Not That: Easter Candy Edition

By Alexis Desrosiers

If you’re worried you won’t be able to eat Easter candy in moderation this holiday… don’t fret! Valley took the guess work out of the process! Here are some of the best (and worst) candies for you this Easter Season

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Beauty & Health

Save vs. Splurge: Organic Foods

By Alexis Desrosiers

What first comes to mind when you hear the word “organic”? Expensive, natural, healthy, perhaps? Contrary to belief, organic food isn’t free of chemicals and pesticides.

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Beauty & Health

Protein-Packed 3 Ingredient Dip

By Alexis Desrosiers

There’s nothing more annoying then being so ravenously hungry and not knowing what to eat. Instead of staring in your pantry/fridge waiting for something to magically appear- what if you had a snack on hand that was not only easy to make but dare I say… healthy?

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Self-Improvement

So You Didn’t Go Anywhere This Spring Break

By Alexis Desrosiers

While it seems most Penn State students will be tanning and drinking tropical fruity beverages in some other country, there’s also a great portion of college students who spend their spring break at home.

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Beauty & Health

Weighing In: If It Fits Your Macros

By Alexis Desrosiers

A diet where eating Pop-tarts, donuts, and McDonald’s is encouraged? It sounds too good to be true, but the IIFYM (If It Fits Your Macro’s) diet claims you really can eat whatever you want.

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Beauty & Health

Weighing In: CHAARG’s Official Debut at PSU

By Alexis Desrosiers

CHAARG is an organization aimed at encouraging girls to get active, have fun, and gain a support system in and out of the gym. The program challenges girls to hop off the elliptical and try new workouts weekly.

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Beauty & Health

Weighing In: Easy Overnight Oats

By Alexis Desrosiers

It’s no secret that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. So why do many of us continue to skip it? Eating breakfast boosts our metabolism, helps us stay more focused in class, and can even make us happier.

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Self-Improvement

7 Reasons Why Mom is the Most Important Friendship of All

By Alexis Desrosiers

While it’s important to branch out and make friends in college, there’s one relationship that we must not take for granted– the relationship we have with our mom. Although she’s no longer around to pack your lunch or sit front row at your school play, she plays just as important of a role in your life now as she has in your earlier stages of life.

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New Year, Same You
Self-Improvement

New Year, Same You

By Alexis Desrosiers

Now that the holidays are over and reality has set in, are you keeping up with your resolutions? Don’t be discouraged if you aren’t. Resolutions have a high failure rate, so why do we feel obligated to change?

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