Brehm’s New Healthy Lifestyle Plan a Success

The Brehm family (administrators, faculty, parents and board) meets once a year to discuss the Brehm strategic plan and our progress. We’ve called this important event Parents Strategic Planning.

One of the key recommendations from the most recent Parents Strategic Planning, held this past spring, was that a full “Wellness Curricula” be put in place on the Brehm campus. All areas of the healthy lifestyle plan were put in place by the beginning of the past semester:

• Nutritional value of food was increased
• A low calorie salad bar was installed and fried food was eliminated.
• Portion control was instituted
• Less processed and more locally sourced meat, fruits and vegetables
• A healthy breakfast menu is now served in the dorms
• Reduction of student food waste

Brehm students have been on an improved healthy path for the past semester.

This weekend, at the board retreat, it was announced that the “Wellness Curricula” is working out very well. Overall, the number of students reporting to Brehm nurses has dropped dramatically in the mornings.

This is just one more example of how together, the Brehm family keeps improving on the great Brehm experience.