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Lafayette, LA The newest generation of college students willsoon be packing their bags and heading off to school.  For many ofthese millions of teenagers it will be the first time in theirlives that they will be missing one vital element: mom's healthyhome cooking!

Teens depend so strongly on their families to educate them as towhat constitutes a healthy meal that when Mom and Dad are absent;they slip into a fast food, instant gratification lifestyle.College can be a pressure cooker of stress and new students wholack proper nutrition risk having a disadvantage at a time in theirlife vital to their success.  How can we ensure that our futuregeneration will turn down the burritos, pizza and wings in favor ofhealthy alternatives that they have created by themselves, forthemselves?

Neal Bertrand, author of the cookbook "Rice Cooker Meals: Fast HomeCooking For Busy People" reveals that a surprising new trend infood preparation is the use of the common rice cooker, a devicethat many have overlooked in these "fast food times".  Rice cookerscan easily produce home-style meals that lock in all of the healthyelements that a busy student requires to make the Dean's List. More and more students are turning on to the fact that they canbecome a "Top Chef" without challenging their short attentionspans.

Here Neal shares the top 5 reasons why rice cookers produce quick,affordable meals and also support healthy, nourished minds: