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. Something to be proud of? Sure, …
Like nerdy number-crunching health journalists across America, I spent much of Wednesday poring over newly released government figures revealing – for the first time ever – the colossal disparities between what hospitals across the country charge for common procedures and …
If you’re under 65 and — like most Coloradans — lead a fairly healthy lifestyle, chances are your eyes will glaze over after you read these next five words: It’s National Stroke Awareness Month. After all, why would you need to worry …
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 through the soil, …
My wife and I were traveling this past weekend, near New Orleans, when I reached down to pull what I thought was a tiny scab off my ankle. Lo and behold, that little scab was not a scab at all. …
So I was reading through the USA Today the other day and came across the following half-page advertorial: Never Too Old to Restore Memory, Claims Creator of Medicare-Reimbursed Brain Health Breakthrough. Already a mouthful, there’s a bit more with the …
Can Coca-Cola kill you? Not exactly, but according to a new study by researchers at Harvard School of Public Health, it and other sugar-sweetened beverages are linked to 184,000 deaths globally each year. The study, presented at an American Heart …
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 technology isn’t going anywhere …
At least that’s the idea, when David Backus gets Local Organic Lunch off the ground. Backus is no ordinary meal peddler. All of his offerings are raw, vegan, organic, non-GMO, gluten-free and soy-free. And he’s launching to the denizens of …
After a bleak beginning to 2013, the anti-GMO lobby got encouraging news last week, when Whole Foods Market announced that by 2018, it will require all products containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs) to be labeled as such. “While we are …
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