Tag: Health And Wellness
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Live Well: Regular or diet soda? Either one is no friend to your body
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Pick your poison: regular soda or diet soda. One is not better than the other. They’re both terrible for you, just in different ways. But which one would a dietitian choose, if forced to pick? Kelly Smith, a registered dietitian nutritionist at Springs Nutrition and…
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The incredible story of the 12-year-old cancer patient who brings joy to half a million children fighting cancer
Life can feel terribly unfair. And yet for some people, when life hands them the worst possible circumstance, they are at their absolute best. Jessie Joy Rees is just such a person. The blond-haired, California kid with the big personality as fun as a day at the beach became the voice of courage for kids…
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Live Well: Be your own Fitbit
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save We have become a world of data collectors. Or maybe we always have been. As a young man, my grandfather started every journal entry by writing about the weather. I found it puzzling. Why keep track of something so seemingly mundane? And then I realized…
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How a wrong number, a wrong text and a mix-up led to long-lasting friendships
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Twenty years ago, Gladys Hankerson, who lives in Florida, dialed up her sister in Maryland for a chat. Or so she thought. But she misdialed the area code and reached Mike Moffit in Rhode Island. Mike says Gladys was a bit embarrassed but very sweet.…
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Live Well: Hair loss? You’re not alone
Can you hear that? It’s the sound of our hair follicles closing up shop. The past almost two years haven’t been kind to our previously lustrous manes. Stress, whether from a global pandemic or significant life event, such as a divorce, job loss or illness, can wreak havoc on our noggins. Dr. Maria Sheron, a…
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Colorado Springs man joins exclusive Manitou Incline club — surpassing even his standards
From his Haiti youth to the time he arrived in Colorado Springs on a snowy day in the late 1990s, Christel Aime has lived his life a certain way. “If you give me two ways of doing something,” he said, “I’m always gonna choose the hard way.” What he chose for 2021 surpassed even his…
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We’re talking love language with your holiday gift-giving | Live Well
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save I’m here to love language your holiday gift-giving. The heck you say? I can hear you now, as you take a bite of your festive chocolate breakfast cake, as discussed in my last treatise on…
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What’s your breakfast choice? Are there any rules? | Live Well
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save I come not to bury breakfast, but to praise and investigate it. I’ve heard rumors of people who don’t break(their)fast until lunch. These are not my people. I relish the first gurgles of hunger that…
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Childhood Cancer Awareness Month: A Colorado family’s cancer journey
On the morning of Halloween 2020, 4-year-old Piper Lardes was beaming. It was her favorite holiday and her long-planned witch costume, complete with green face paint and plastic fingers, was waiting for her at home. The only thing standing between Piper and a day of trick-or-treating was a quick doctor’s appointment. At least, that’s what…
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Sunscreen: What and how often to use
The sun is my great love, and also my great enemy. It reminds me of the juicy Latin quote: “Quod me nutrit, me destruit,” which translates to “what nourishes me, destroys me.” Once upon a time, I partook of tanning beds and sunned myself religiously on my back deck. Those days are long gone. And…