Aging: A Hero’s Journey

  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 … Read more

The American Gut Project – What’s in YOUR Gut?

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 … Read more

Sleep, Perchance to Dream – Health Experts Discuss Insomnia

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: … Read more

Diet Debate – Medical Doctors Recommend Diverse Ways to Eat

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 . . . … Read more

James Hill and America on the Move

  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 … Read more

Call-in show – Improving America’s food supply with Robyn Obrien and Chef Ann Cooper

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 … Read more

Eat, Exercise, Excel – Anthony Elementary School

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 … Read more

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 … Read more