Category: Feature

  • The Heart Attack Chronicles

    LISTEN/DOWNLOAD FULL 55 MINUTE CALL IN SHOW     Listen Part 1:  The Heart Attack (LISTEN (30 MINUTES) He had just dropped his his daughter at school when he realized he was having a heart attack . . .  Our anonymous heart attack survivor, and Paramedic Chantel Benish tell what a 911 response is like.…

  • Resiliency – Grillo Health Information Panel

    Introduction Listen to Full Introduction (15 minutes)   Arielle Schwartz – Moving from Loss into Love Listen to complete presentation (20 minutes) 2013 Grillo Resiliency Arielle Schwartz from shelley schlender on Vimeo. Tom McSheehy – Raising Resilient Children Listen to complete presentation (20 minutes) 2013 Grillo Resiliency Tom McSheehy from shelley schlender on Vimeo. Heather Fliege – Partnering with…

  • The Broccoli Campaign

    Maxwell 5th Graders Nancy and Cynthia have volunteered to promote a  healthy vegetable — broccoli.  Nancy likes broccoli.  Cynthia hates it.  Can Nancy persuade Cynthia to try broccoli?

  • Hot Lunch vs Sack Lunch

    Three years ago, Boulder Valley Schools hired the world renowned “Renegade Lunch Lady” Chef Ann Cooper, to make school lunches among the healthiest in the nation.  They even surpass the new USDA guidelines.  They’re free of additives and made from scratch by acclaimed local chefs who want kids to really like  healthy food.  More students…

  • Junk Food at Swansea Elementary

    Listen (3 Minutes) Swansea students decided to look at the issue of junk food.  For this story, they interviewed their teachers and worked on the script together.

  • Gratitude at Thanksgiving – From Swansea

    LISTEN (3 Minutes) Here is a holiday story from Swansea Elementary students nd it’s about having gratitude. In addition, there is a focus on the pilgrim corn and bean salad and manners, which are part of the holiday time period nutrition classes.

  • Healthy Food For Thanksgiving

    Can kids like healthy foods for Thanksgiving? Click these links to hear a 2-minute answer with a special song, from Ashley 5th graders Melody, Ronald, Ruth, Edgar, Anna, Omar, Thomas:.  Here are their healthy ideas.  Ashley student reporters learned their friends’ favorite vegetable  . . . and what they DON’T like . . . The 5th grades say that…

  • CU Health Science Professor Richard Johnson – The Sugar Fix

    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

    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…

  • Singing the Praises of School Breakfast

    LISTEN (3 Minutes) One year, Colorado considered cutting funds for the school breakfast program.  At the last minute, the funding was allowed to say.  Students at Ashley Elementary made up songs, and created this story, that broadcast on KGNU, to explain why they are glad that this program continued.  For them, free and reduced breakfast…