Two of the harshest food critics I know live in my home and are both under the age of 8. It’s a daily struggle to sneak a morsel of something resembling health into their diet and often results in a complete surrender by dinner time. Yet, these two, picky eaters are absolutely thrilled to cast their [...]

I am not what one would call an environmentalist but this past year, I have a new passion for recycling. When I was a missionary in Switzerland in 1993, I was amazed that every home had multiple recycling bins. Though I joked about needing a PhD in Recycling to live there, I admired how they [...]

So want to celebrate Earth Day with your kids in a fun, interesting, cheap way that might just save the planet? 
Well, let’s head on over to the bus stop…

One person switching to public transit for just one day can reduce daily carbon emissions by 20 pounds – over a year that’s more than 4,800 pounds. [...]

Walking together for stronger, healthier babies
March for Babies is the nation’s oldest and biggest event for mom/baby health. It’s also the largest annual March of Dimes fundraiser. Money raised funds a range of March of Dimes programs that work to improve the health of moms and babies. Thousands of Coloradans get involved in the event [...]

Every month, Mile High Mamas features a Q & A from The Children’s Hospital on a different health topic. This month’s topic is all about how to sooth your child’s springtime allergies.

One look at the cheerful, bright portraits of veggies and flowers had you purring with delight, your willpower crumbling before their sun-drenched colors. You pored over catalogs, mapped out your planting plan and ordered the seeds. But now those packets are here and you’re staring at them, wondering if the equipment to get them started [...]

Julissa Valdivia, 9, and Karen Vazquez, 16, share a smile at the weekly informal art-club meeting at Joshua Station, a homeless shelter. 

WASHINGTON — After staunchly defending the safety of artificial food colorings, the federal government is for the first time publicly reassessing whether foods such as Jell-O, Lucky Charms cereal and Minute Maid lemonade should carry warnings that the bright artificial colorings in them worsen behavior problems such as hyperactivity in some children.

I had the opportunity to talk with medical economist, healthcare policy expert and former Denver resident J.D. Kleinke about his newly released novel Catching Babies. This book is sure to create some buzz as it confronts issues such as unnecessary c-sections, the uninsured, birth trauma, the flight to homebirth and the rampant rise in post [...]

While a trip to Disney World is an event that is celebrated by most children, for 9-year-old Ann, it was an ordeal to be tolerated.
She became anxious and started to sweat whenever she was in a crowded area. Ann refused to go on most of the rides. She was reluctant to eat food that was [...]