The USA Pro Challenge Pedals Cycling Enthusiasm — and its Health Benefits —...
We are in the midst of the American version of the Tour de France, a seven-stage trek that began Monday in Durango and culminates in Denver on Sunday, August 26. It pits the best of the best in the...
View ArticleSports Medicine Program for Young Athletes Shows Children’s Hospital at the...
With school and fall sports in full swing, kids are at it again. Not that the kids who are involved in sports get much downtime these days. Usually if they play football or soccer or anything else...
View ArticleGet Your Feet Wet with Aquatic Therapy
For many people, especially older individuals, the body can take a beating while training on land. The constant repetition of running on pavement, for example, can wreak havoc on knees and joints. And...
View ArticleLose Weight Over the Holidays & Gain Insight into Your Personal Health with...
With Christmas season right around the corner, health talk always seems to turn to those holiday binges, whether it be eating, drinking or both. Thanksgiving is tough, of course, but it’s one day vs. a...
View ArticleDoctor’s Advice: Take this Holiday to Heart
Love is in the air. On perhaps the Hallmarkiest of holidays, full of little candy hearts, flowers and chocolates, people tend to have their heads in the clouds. We speak, of course, of Valentine’s Day....
View ArticleConfessions of a Closet ‘Biggest Loser’ Addict
Over a Happy Hour beer with a friend, I recently confessed to something I have told no one: I’m addicted to the Biggest Loser. So is my husband. So are my kids. There, I said it. Each Monday night for...
View ArticleCelebrate International Women’s Day with a Long Run – Because You Can
After a head-clearing, spirit-lifting, blue-sky Colorado run Wednesday morning, I opened my newspaper to a headline which took my breath away — and left me keenly appreciative of how far female...
View ArticleYour Health — There’s an App for That
We live in a technical, “connected” world. Whether or not a digitally tethered populace is a good (and collectively healthy) thing in the big picture is a post for another day. But the reality is that...
View ArticleGarden Guardians: A Closely “Garded” Secret
Okay, so it’s not really a secret, but it’s not exactly common knowledge either. Turns out there is a merry band of earthy custodians who play a sort of collective Robin Hood to the land. They sift...
View Article“The State of Health” Report for Colorado: Something to Feel Good About
Kind of. The thing with measuring health these days is that everyone is grading on a curve. For example, people in the United States are by-and-large fat, but Coloradans are less fat than most....
View ArticleDoes Declaring Obesity a Disease Help or Hinder?
By now, you’ve probably heard that the American Medical Association (AMA) has recognized obesity as a disease. It’s an interesting development, one that has sparked a great deal of reflection and...
View ArticleNew Book “State of Slim” Champions a Colorado Diet Where Success is Tied to...
Did you know there was such a thing as the Colorado Diet, designed to help users shed 20 pounds in eight weeks? The mechanics of the diet are outlined in “State of Slim,” a new book that champions “the...
View ArticleExercise & the Brain: A Movement Based on Movement Is Taking Shape in...
On the basketball court outside of Red Hawk Elementary in Erie, Colorado, masses of young students are jumping, dancing and waving their arms. Nothing to raise eyebrows you might say, except that these...
View ArticleHealth Foundation Funds Projects Showing Fit Students Make Better Learners
What does it take for school kids to eat healthy? It takes the proper diet and nutritional guidelines, of course, but also money to implement programs to counter the nation’s trend toward youth...
View ArticleConfessions of a Closet ‘Biggest Loser’ Addict
Over a Happy Hour beer with a friend, I recently confessed to something I have told no one: I’m addicted to the Biggest Loser. So is my husband. So are my kids. There, I said it. Each Monday night for...
View ArticleCelebrate International Women’s Day with a Long Run – Because You Can
After a head-clearing, spirit-lifting, blue-sky Colorado run Wednesday morning, I opened my newspaper to a headline which took my breath away — and left me keenly appreciative of how far female...
View ArticleYour Health — There’s an App for That
We live in a technical, “connected” world. Whether or not a digitally tethered populace is a good (and collectively healthy) thing in the big picture is a post for another day. But the reality is that...
View ArticleGarden Guardians: A Closely “Garded” Secret
Okay, so it’s not really a secret, but it’s not exactly common knowledge either. Turns out there is a merry band of earthy custodians who play a sort of collective Robin Hood to the land. They sift...
View Article“The State of Health” Report for Colorado: Something to Feel Good About
Kind of. The thing with measuring health these days is that everyone is grading on a curve. For example, people in the United States are by-and-large fat, but Coloradans are less fat than most....
View ArticleDoes Declaring Obesity a Disease Help or Hinder?
By now, you’ve probably heard that the American Medical Association (AMA) has recognized obesity as a disease. It’s an interesting development, one that has sparked a great deal of reflection and...
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