These recordings are part of the Grillo Health Information presentation at the Boulder Public Library – Aging – A Hero’s Journey, in December 2013. Shelley Schlender recorded these on behalf of Grillo and KGNU Boulder Denver. Let’s begin with a conversation between Dr. Rohini Kanniganti, a physician at Rocky Mountain Senior Care, and Rabbi…
Science
The American Gut Project – What’s in YOUR Gut?
by Shelley Schlender •
The American Gut Project is a unique science investigation, featuring some of the world’s best scientists and YOU, as a citizen, contributing funding and also microbial data from your body, from your kids, from your pets. Your choice. Rob Knight, at CU-Boulder, is a leader of the investigation. This project strives to find out what’s…
Sleep, Perchance to Dream – Health Experts Discuss Insomnia
by Shelley Schlender •
In this October, 2012, presentation, Boulder’s Grillo Health Information Center shares diverse perspectives on how to gt a good night’s sleep and even have lucid dreams as part of it. This event sold out. If you want the Grillo Health Center to schedule other panels like this, contact them via their Facebook page, or email:…
Diet Debate – Medical Doctors Recommend Diverse Ways to Eat
by Shelley Schlender •
While US dietary policy promotes a one-size-fits-all approach to nutrition, among health experts, the range of what’s considered a healthy diet is broader and more varied. In August, 2012, Boulder’s Grillo Health Information Center shared some of the diverse perspectives on diets by having a Stahl Lecture Series that focused on diet . . .…
James Hill Talks about the Science Challenge of Obesity
by Shelley Schlender •
Here is a science presentation by James Hill at the 2012 GoldLab Symposium at CU-Boulder about the “challenge of healthy living.” You need to use a computer that allows youtube videos in order to see this. It’s a one-hour long presentation, and it was presented to scientists and other adults. Here is a shorter, follow-up…
James Hill and America on the Move
by Shelley Schlender •
LISTEN (5 Minutes) Editor’s Note – This is an interview we did with CU Health Scientist Jim Hill in 2004, when he began a program he called, “America on the Move.” You may recognize many aspects of this program, and see how they’ve evolved into programs such as “5th Gear.” When physiologist Jim Hill…
Call-in show – Improving America’s food supply with Robyn Obrien and Chef Ann Cooper
by Maeve Conran •
LISTEN (1 Hour) KGNU News Director Maeve Conran talks with Robyn Obrien and the Renegade Lunch Lady, Chef Ann Cooper. Robyn OBrien is the author of: The Unhealthy Truth: One Mother’s Shocking Investigation into the Dangers of America’s Food Supply– and What Every Family Can Do to Protect Itself. Chef Ann Cooper directs Boulder Valley Schools…
Eat, Exercise, Excel – Anthony Elementary School
by Shelley Schlender •
Listen (5 minutes) It’s lunchtime at Anthony Elementary, a public school in a Leavenworth, Kansas. That’s a town where the main business is a federal prison, and most kids live below the poverty line. Two years ago, Anthony Elementary’s cafeteria was a noisy, disorderly and rowdy place. It was supervised by overworked lunchroom aides, as…
CU Health Science Professor Richard Johnson – The Sugar Fix
by Shelley Schlender •
In case you think table sugar is safer than high fructose corn syrup, and juice is better that soda . . .
The Rise of Asthma and Autoimmune Disease
by Shelley Schlender •
This program broadcast on KGNU’s science show. To hear the interview, LISTEN to the show. We look at the strange rise in autoimmune diseases, allergies and asthma, with experts from the University of Chicago Celiac Disease Center and with National Jewish Health Immunlogist Andy Liu in Denver. And, we explore whether genetically modified crops might…
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