From food and healthy recipes to fitness exercises and research studies, the AHWC blog offers expert health and wellness advice.
Did you know that we host interns interested in learning more about all things fitness? Meet one of our interns, Mary Young, and find out some of her favorite parts about working at the CU Anschutz Health and Wellness Center! Next time you’re here, be sure to say hello! What is your role as an Anschutz…
Nutrition as fuel requires mindful eating The Western diet is often structured around scheduled meal times, celebrations, moods and activities instead of eating mindfully to fuel our bodies. We eat to begin and end our days, snacks between meals and for special occasions. The entire Thanksgiving holiday has even become a day of feasting that…
Oven roasted shrimp accompany this vibrant sprouted mung bean salad for a light, healthy and delicious meal. Oven Roasted Shrimp Ingredients 1 lb. shelled and deveined jumbo shrimp (36) 1-2 clove garlic, minced 2 t olive oil ½ t salt ¼ t pepper 1 lemon, juiced and zested 2 teaspoons chopped parsley, optional Preparation 1.…
Meet CU Anschutz Health and Wellness Center’s newest Yoga instructor, Gordon Carpenter, and learn more about his journey to and the practice of Universal Yoga. Join Gordon every Monday at 12 pm beginning this month and experience Universal Yoga for yourself! Welcome to Colorado and to the Anschutz Health and Wellness Center! How did you…
Read the first half of this article: Shopping with Intention You have bags of groceries after returning from the store and start to think of what meals you can make from this purchase. Perhaps there is a recipe book you refer to, or if you are a week planner, maybe a meal plan has been…
You likely are both, though maybe you haven’t thought about the community on the inside of your GI lately: How can you when you are taking on the universe? Whether you like it or not, you are a walking, breathing, eating, diverse carrier of microorganisms with more than 3 MILLION microbial genes in our GI…
March is all about moving smarter, not harder, and one of the best ways to move smarter is to take care of your body with regular massage treatments. Think you’re too busy? Try sports massage! Despite its “athletic” sounding name, you don’t have to be Tom Brady to enjoy the benefits of sports massage—not even…
Practical Mindfulness for Stress: Taming “March Madness” Feeling the full-court press and stress that springtime can bring? Join Dr. Liz Chamberlain for this interactive 45-minute Wellbeing 360 workshop to learn research-based strategies to tame the “March Madness” before a stress tipoff (or a bracket bust)! In this engaging workshop, you’ll learn: Why and how stress…
It’s March. You’ve been working on your resolutions for two months now, right? You’ve got this, right? If you are like many of us (even people in the fitness world), you’ve probably gotten overwhelmed and fallen off the path a bit. It happens. and that’s ok. You already know what it takes to get healthy.…
Arriving at the grocery store, you observe that the parking lot is full to capacity. The store’s sign in white and yellow lettering already gives you anxiety about stepping through the automatic doors. Before you even start shopping for tonight’s dinner, you can feel your heart starting to race and a surge of anxiousness.…
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