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Winterizing Your Workout

December 20, 2011 Like 0 editor

You know the drill. Winter arrives out of nowhere. One day you’re ambling along Pearl Street enjoying the warm air and sun or hiking the Front Range, staring at the snow-dusted peaks in the distance, and the next day there…

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The Nutritional Value of Tomato Paste

December 20, 2011 Like 0 Andra Coberly

“Eat less, move more.” If you’ve never heard this little adage, you’ve obviously never needed to lose weight. The phrase is a simple, accessible way to explain the entire concept of weight loss without explaining caloric intake, metabolism, muscle mass…

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Forgotten Flock

September 21, 2011 Like 1 Brandy Simmons

When it comes to birds, captivation is not domestication, so when parrots exhibit natural behaviors, they’re often neglected, abused or abandoned.

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County approves syringe exchange program

May 25, 2011 Like 0 Stephanie Riesco

On May 16, the Boulder County Board of Health passed a resolution that officially recognizes Boulder County Public Health’s long-standing syringe exchange program. Last year, the Colorado legislature passed a bill to legalize syringe programs across the state. Now, with…

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Jeff Olson

May 20, 2011 Like 0 Andra Coberly

Though he retired from competitive skiing decades ago, Jeff Olson still has Olympic dreams.

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Play Today for Health Tomorrow

January 6, 2011 Like 1 editor

Why does the term ‘working out’ include the word work? Who said getting fit has to feel like a chore?

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Ditching the Diet

January 6, 2011 Like 0 Lacy Boggs

In every bookstore in America, dozens of different diet books will replace Christmas merchandise as December becomes January and thoughts of sugar plums become thoughts of elastic waistbands. Resolutions to climb Fourteeners or run the Bolder Boulder will be made.…

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Anne Garcia McCullough & Maura Ellis Youle

January 5, 2011 Like 0 Andra Coberly

Little miracles. That’s how Anne Garcia McCullough describes it, sitting in a Longmont coffee shop with her friend, neighbor and partner-in-hope Maura Ellis Youle on a fall morning. There’s nothing like an inspirational story for the holidays, and Garcia McCullough’s…

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Snack Attack

September 20, 2010 Like 1 Lacy Boggs

Morning, noon and night, you never know when hunger will show her alluring visage and tempt you…Cookies? No? Something savory? Pupusas? Empanadas? How about a piece of pie? Ohhhh, Buffalo wings! Here, 16 ways to snack in Boulder County.

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