I'm fed up, State College.

I sat quietly while the University Creamery closed up shop at its old location and crept closer to East Halls like a crack dealer looking to entice young addicts.

I bit my tongue when the McDonald's on East College Avenue shut down operations in order to create a two-floor fast food mecca.

But after hearing about the impending debut of Insomnia Cookies, Happy Valley's newest junkfood source, I must break my silence.

Allow me to first give you a little background. Insomnia Cookies is a bakery that delivers brownies, ice cream and -- of course -- cookies to students late at night (they're open from 8 p.m. until 2:30 a.m.). The brainchild of University of Pennsylvania graduate Seth Berkowitz, the Insomnia Cookies Web site states that the chain was "Born out of [their] dislike of heavy meals late at night."

Thursday is the grand opening of their South Fraser Street chain, the ninth such franchise in the nation. You'll be able to use LionMenus.com to place orders, and they'll come right to your door. The company's trademark cookie varieties include peanut butter, chocolate chunk and double chocolate chunk. Is your mouth watering yet?

Mine isn't.

In fact, you better get me a bucket because I think I'm about to throw up. The last thing Penn State needs is another junk food supplier to fatten up the student population.

How many times have you overheard someone in the Forum talking to their friend before class about how they need to lose weight? Better yet, how many times have you been that person complaining to friends about your weight?

Yet, as everybody drones on about their body issues, the line at Canyon Pizza stretches onto the sidewalk outside, the Creamery is packed with people devouring donuts and ice cream cones, and R. U. Hungry employees rush to fill orders for subs stuffed with french fries.

And if history is any guide, the collective student waistline will most likely succumb to this new temptation coming in the form of a cookie supplier that would make June Cleaver seem stingy.

What's the selling point of all this garbage we continually put into ourselves? Maybe it's the convenience we like. The food is made just for us and delivered in a snap -- the only thing we have to do is actually chew it.

But then again maybe it's the rewarding feeling we get while pigging out on wings after studying six hours for an exam. Or perhaps it's the fact that we don't have our parents here to tell us what we should and shouldn't eat.

Who knows? What I do know, however, is that you control what you eat, and if you choose to eat junk food often, you will gain weight no matter what. In addition, eating food late at night (during the hours Insomnia Cookies will operate) is unhealthy because your body often doesn't have enough time to burn it off as fuel before you go to sleep, causing most of it to be converted to fat. And when that food is already fatty to begin with, you're just asking for it to go straight to your thighs.

You can make New Year's resolution after New Year's resolution, but if you're serious about losing weight or simply maintaining your physique, you'll realize the need to stop feeding money into junk food chains downtown and start feeding yourself healthy food.

Sure, this may mean actually getting off your rear and preparing your own meals from time to time, but come May when everyone else is frantic because their bathing suit doesn't fit, you can sit back and laugh.

I realize that it's fun to have some slices of pizza or scoops of ice cream every now and then, but eating out on a regular basis is simply not good for you.

With that, in two days a bakery will open downtown whose existence relies on your laziness and lack of eating willpower. If you decide to eat healthy, Insomnia Cookies -- and every junk food place like it in State College -- will disappear.

It's up to you, Dear Old State, to improve yourself through healthy eating. But if you decide to make poor eating choices, the chunk will ultimately find its way from your chocolate chip cookies to your chins.

And when it does, I better not hear you complain.