Sweet Briar College is pleased to offer MyStudentBody.com, a unique interactive website that encourages individual self-assessment and builds mental and physical health awareness. MyStudentBody.com provides personalized health information, engaging interactive tools, and detailed coping strategies that are up-to-date and scientifically accurate.

Working together with college students and nationally renowned experts, myStudentBody tackles the most relevant health-related issues on college campuses today:

MyStudentBody-Alcohol addresses high risk college drinking with an online course and other interactive features to help students identify and track individual drinking behaviors, risks, and consequences.
MyStudentBody-Drugs incorporates key information about illicit and prescription drug use and abuse prevention, including online courses, personal risk assessments, and skill-building activities to promote self-efficacy.
MyStudentBody-Nutrition provides interactive support for fitness and wellness education, while identifying potential risks for problematic weight control practices or body image issues.
MyStudentBody-Sexual Health offers a brief motivational intervention, activities, and comprehensive sexual health information to boost student awareness and confidence in building healthy relationships.
MyStudentBody-Tobacco helps college students steer away from or reduce tobacco use. It provides a host of student-friendly interactive tools and strategies for quitting and supporting others.
MyStudentBody-Stress cultivates effective time management and coping skills. It encourages individual self-assessment and builds mental health awareness among college students.
MyStudentBody-Parent educates parents and families on how to communicate effectively with students about alcohol, drugs, and other health challenges on campus. It helps parents to encourage healthy behavior, support a healthy transition to college, and strengthen health and safety initiatives.

All myStudentBody component programs help students examine personal beliefs, behaviors and consequences, while delivering a distinctive brand of prevention education through engaging interactive tools, flash animation peer stories, and student-friendly informational pieces. Content for each component is independently developed and clinically tested with support from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Student Login Instructions

Student login instructions:

Go to www.myStudentBody.com.
Below the login boxes there is the question, “Don’t have a user ID?” Click on “Register Now.”
Enter the school code “vixens”and create a unique username and a password. Each one can be up to 8 characters. You will have to read the Terms of Use and indicate you have done this before you are allowed to click “Submit.”
IMPORTANT: Write down (or save in some other way) your username and password for future use. This will keep you from having to build a new user profile again if you re-visit the site.
Fill in all of the required information on the registration page and then click “Continue” at the bottom of the page. On the next page, verify the information you entered and click “Finish.” You will be directed to the myStudentBody.com “Lobby.” Click on the module of your choice.
The first time you visit myStudentBody modules, you may be given a brief survey to evaluate issues corresponding to the module topic. After you select your responses, click on the “Continue” button.
After you complete a survey, you will receive some brief feedback about your responses. Click on the “Continue” button after you finish reading it.
You will now have access to the entire myStudentBody site. To customize the site to your personal needs, click on “Rate Myself” in the left-hand navigation toolbar. Fill out as many of the surveys as you like.

PBS Videos

Sweet Briar College Libraries, through their participation in the Virtual Library of Virginia, have acquired access to 498 titles from the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) Video Collection. These may be viewed as streaming videos on campus through your computer.

To access the videos, use the library catalog: http://192.69.117.21/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=sbc and, on the main screen, enter the words VIVA PBS into the Title Keywords box. This will take you to a listing of all the videos.

To view one, select the title and then click on the chosen url link (one is for high quality and one for lower quality).

Viewing the streaming videos requires Quicktime (downloadable from: http://www.apple.com/quicktime)

Clicking on the link should either cause the Quicktime Player to open and the video to start (you may be asked if you wish to launch the application) or you may get an error message saying your browser cannot handle the file. If you get an error message (each browser is different and can have different settings defining what and how they handle differing files), the easiest thing to do is to copy the url for the video you wish to see, open Quicktime Player (on Windows - start - programs -Quicktime - Quicktime Player; on Mac open it from the Applications folder) and the, under the file menu, choose Open URL and past the URL into the box and hit return and the video should start.

126. Diet wars

Explores the social, cultural & dietary factors that led to the fattening of America, and examines how the medical & diet industries responded to consumers' desire to lose weight. The dizzying array of weight loss programs & diets are often contradictory.

rtsp://gimli.noc.sbc.edu/PBS/800k/pbs_frl2211_800k.mp4

127. A Different Way to Heal?

Discusses latest findings on how to extend the lifespan, including low calorie diets, research in tissue engineering and cell rejuvenation, and the importance of daily physical and mental activity.

rtsp://gimli.noc.sbc.edu/PBS/800k/pbs_saf002_800k.mp4

142. Fat and Happy

Shows how eating healthier can improve the quality of life and increase longevity.

rtsp://gimli.noc.sbc.edu/PBS/800k/pbs_saf020_800k.mp4

288. Losing it

Follows a group of 12 persons for several months as they adopt different strategies for weight loss, ranging from online diet systems to gastric bypass surgery. Also looks at research that attempts to explain the body's complex weight-regulation systems, and to explain, among other things, why dieting is difficult.

rtsp://gimli.noc.sbc.edu/PBS/800k/pbs_saf034_800k.mp4

494. Worried Sick

This program shows the body's physiological reaction to stress. Host Alan Alda meets researchers who are exploring the ill effects of stress on health and aging, and how relaxation can help lessen the damage.

rtsp://gimli.noc.sbc.edu/PBS/800k/pbs_saf060_800k.mp4