The Six Pack Series continues at 8 p.m. today with its third installment, “Wasted Calories: Think Before You Drink-Whomever’s Been Doing It.”

“Everyone needs to learn about how dangerous alcohol can be and how it effects your career at Eastern, your body, and your life,” said Brad Tribble, the alcohol and tobacco education coordinator.

Tribble said the graduate assistants at the HERC will each be presenting a lecture in the Six Pack series.

Wasted Calories will focus on the empty calories one drinks throughout college. Graduate assistant Sarah Gaines will talk about how alcohol has no nutritional value and how it affects a person’s absorption of nutrition.

She is also the nutrition education coordinator at the HERC.

Gaines recently graduated with a Bachelors of Science in human environmental studies with a dietetics option from Southeast Missouri State University in May.

The graduate assistants will cover topics such as calorie counting, dealing with drinking tickets and how drinking drains your finances. The series began Sept. 9 and continues every Wednesday until Oct. 14.

The Six Pack Series is a tradition here at Eastern. The Health Education Resource Center started seven years ago to bring the awareness to Eastern’s students about alcohol.

Kristin Vetrovec, a senior public relations major, plans to attend the lecture after hearing about it through a list of educationals posted at her sorority house. Vetrovec said she is excited to attend the lecture today.

“I think it would be interesting to find out the actual statistics surrounding the amount of alcohol that can be consumed and how I can learn to be smarter about it,” Vetrovec said.

Free prizes will be given away at each lecture. Along with prizes, students will gain important information.

Rachael McDermott can be reached at 581-7942 or at [email protected].

For more information, about the Six Pack Series and today’s lecture, visit the Health Education Resource Center Web site at www.eiu.edu/~herc/home.