Article: When it comes to health, you can't have your cake and eat it; Students who ignore their diet are storing up health problems for later life, as Gaby Huddart explains.

Byline: GABY HUDDART

BEING a student can be tough: the endless late nights, the partying, the drinking marathons, the skipped meals. Oh yes, and the studying, with end-of-term exams and revision having to be fitted around all that socialising. All in all, it is an almost guaranteed recipe for poor health, so no wonder students are particularly prone to coughs, colds, flu and - worse still - the likes of glandular fever and ME.

But, say health experts, there are some simple steps that students can take to protect their health and get them through their college years relatively unscathed, ready to take on the world of work. Here we offer the top five tips ...

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