From food and healthy recipes to fitness exercises and research studies, the AHWC blog offers expert health and wellness advice.
One of the most effective tools for treating obesity is weight loss surgery. Unfortunately, some patients don’t qualify for surgery because they have mild obesity that doesn’t meet criteria for surgery, some people who lose weight with weight loss surgery gain weight back, and some people don’t want to have surgery. Endoscopic therapies for weight…
Cheryl Stritzel McCarthy Chicago Tribune A couple of pounds here, a few more there. Weight gain for Matt Baretich, a biomedical engineer in Loveland, Colo., was insidious but steady. By his early 60s, he weighed 300 pounds. “As I approached that number, I was aghast and began to stagger back from the brink,” says Baretich,…
Cheryl Stritzel McCarthy Chicago Tribune We know how to lose weight: reduce calories and increase movement. Yet we don’t do it. Or if we do, we gain it back. What’s missing is your answer to why you want to lose, says Dr. Holly Wyatt, associate professor of medicine at the University of Colorado Anschutz Health…
Imagine that your survival relies on daily insulin, Humalog, and Lantus doses, plus four blood pressure medications, and a prescription to control cholesterol levels. Each day is a struggle of balancing food, health, work, life, stress, and knowing that your medications are just barely holding things together for you. That’s survival, but that’s not the…
Shukrallah Abdelrazeq is a successful audiologist with the New York City Department of Education and a father of two with a loving and supportive wife. The stress of his job in Brooklyn was making his health and weight a problem. As he watched the scale creep toward 400 pounds, Shukry knew he needed a change…
Just a year ago, Dan Holstein made a transformational decision. He not only wanted to live—he wanted to live well. He wanted to eliminate limitations and health issues so he could live life to his fullest potential. Like most stories of transformation, Dan will tell you the process took him out of his comfort zone,…
Starting this month, food manufacturers have two years to comply with new FDA rules to give nutrition labels a much-needed makeover. Now serving size and calories will have to be in bigger, bolder text and food companies will have to add a new line for “added sugars”, just to name a few. It comes as…
Healthy living wasn’t always a habit for Scott. One of the biggest challenges he faced in changing his lifestyle was eliminating excuses. “We all have excuses as to why we can’t work out or eat right. In order for anyone to transform themselves, you have to plan ahead.” After watching, his wife dedicate a week…
Dr. Jacinda Nicklas, of the CU Anschutz Health and Wellness Center, was interviewed by Live Science online magazine for a comprehensive article about health, exercise, and weight loss. “When you’re trying to lose weight, your diet is the most important factor, but when you’re trying to maintain weight loss, exercise becomes the most important factor.”…
Fitness Center: 303-724-WELL (9355)
Wellness Clinic: 303-724-9030
12348 E Montview Blvd.
Aurora, CO 80045
Fitness Center Hours
M-TH: 5am-10pm
FRI: 5am-9pm
S-S: 7am-5pm