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Figuring Out Fit: I’m A Loser, Baby

Figuring Out Fit: I’m A Loser, Baby

There are just too many things I go through on a daily basis that require a lot of effort that should lose way more calories than they do. Because of this, I’m doling out new estimates for caloric expenditures. If only it could be this easy to lose, then I’d be in the best shape...
Hot To Squat: BMI All You Can Be?

Hot To Squat: BMI All You Can Be?

Do you know what your BMI is? The formula looks like this: BMI= weight (lb) / (height (in) x height (in)) x 703. Or, simply enter your info into this handy online calculator and — voila — the answer you’ve been searching for. Every magazine article, every daytime pseudo-intellectual interview, and now, every doctor suddenly...
Figuring Out Fit: Get Fit With a Little Help From Your Friends

Figuring Out Fit: Get Fit With a Little Help From Your Friends

Everything is better with friends, whether it be just hanging out, eating dinner, drinking, or even working out. Or is it?  Just as we have different learning styles, we also have different working out styles. Recently I was having dinner with friends and we started talking about group fitness classes. I agreed with one of...
Bee shortage a "Buzzkill"?

Bee shortage a “Buzzkill”?

Beeyond the Hive is a Colorado business run by two lovely young ladies who are 5th generation beekeepers. Follow this link and watch Lyle, their father and beekeeper, and learn about Dan Rather’s documentary “Buzzkill” which airs today. A shortage of bees can have a devastating impact on agriculture, and of course, the production of...
Hot To Squat: Boo, Hiss: McBusted

Hot To Squat: Boo, Hiss: McBusted

So, McDonald’s has a Director of Nutrition. I wish I could say this were an April Fools’ joke (it isn’t). McDonald’s has just recently insulted the intelligence of consumers everywhere by introducing its new menu offerings as healthy, nutritious, and “part of the fast food chain’s endeavor to achieve variety and balance”. Don’t worry, you...
Denver Casting Call for Extreme Makeover: Weight Loss Edition

Denver Casting Call for Extreme Makeover: Weight Loss Edition

Do you have at least 50% of your body weight to lose? Are you ready to change your life? ABC’s Extreme Makeover: Weight Loss Edition wants to meet you! Eyeworks USA, the producers of the hit “Extreme Makeover: Weight Loss Edition,” is beginning a nationwide tour to 13 cities across the country in search of...
Hot To Squat: The Hills Are Alive

Hot To Squat: The Hills Are Alive

Denver, don’t pack up those boots and gloves just yet. Sure, Spring appears forthcoming: sundresses hit the racks, flip-flops are aplenty, and those malicious jelly beans are taunting us from every store shelf. Before you retire that North Face down coat for the season, remember- it’s not too late to hit the slopes. And it’s...
Extra Time: Qi Nutritional Transformation Program by James Morse

Extra Time: Qi Nutritional Transformation Program by James Morse

It was 2008 and James Morse refused to eat a dish without first adding hot sauce and cheese–gobs of it. Before he knew it everything he was shoveling into his face tasted the same, consequently making the contents shoveled down irrelevant. Totinos pizza? Better make it two. Chimichanga? He’ll take three. Name a greasy dish...
Figuring Out Fit: It's all Greek to Me

Figuring Out Fit: It’s all Greek to Me

What’s the big deal with yogurt these days (Seinfeld voice)? What was once a small, timid section in the dairy aisle is now a loud, boisterous, labyrinth (sans David Bowie) of yogurt options. What happened to the simple flavors and textures of regular ol’ yogurt? These days, yogurt comes in many different varieties including whipped, Greek,...
Hot To Squat: A Better Kind Of Buzz

Hot To Squat: A Better Kind Of Buzz

Hangovers are awfully passe (not to mention awful). Beer pong is for amateurs. Reefer? So last November. Why not, in a city so brimming with health nuts who prioritize their next workout above just about everything else, seek out our chemical bliss from the widely available chefs whose restaurants cater to those willing to explore...
Techin' In: Resetting The Human Brain

Techin’ In: Resetting The Human Brain

Scientists at the Yale School of Medicine have successfully recreated a youthful brain from an old one, enhancing both learning and healing in adult mice. Young Brain vs. Old Brain Adolescent brains are malleable and able to absorb languages and material more quickly than their adult counterparts. Not only that, a young brain sports a much speedier recovery from...
Hot To Squat: Say What?

Hot To Squat: Say What?

As motivating as that cranked-up bassy dubstep (or metal, or hip-hop) might be for your workout, do you have any idea what it’s slowly doing to your very ability to hear anything at all? We all love our music; in fact, studies regularly show that, especially when exercising, music inspires us to work harder and...